Bios of Artists, Painters, Sculptors, and More
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
Painters, sculptors, and photographers
Read the brief and informative biographies of notable artists, from Pablo Picasso and Mary Cassatt to Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O'Keeffe. This is a great reference for school projects and reports, and for learning more about art history.
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- Abbott, Berenice
- Adams, Ansel
- Agostino di Duccio
- Albers, Josef
- Alberti, Leone Battista
- Alcamenes
- Algardi, Alessandro
- Altdorfer, Albrecht
- Angelico, Fra
- Antenor
- Apollodorus
- Arbus, Diane
- Archipenko, Alexander
- Arp, Jean
- Atget, Eugène
- Avery, Milton
- Bacon, Francis
- Banksy
- Barocci, Federigo
- Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste
- Baumeister, Willi
- Bearden, Romare
- Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent
- Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy
- Beckmann, Max
- Bellotto, Bernardo
- Bellows, George Wesley
- Benton, Thomas Hart
- Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo
- Bertoldo di Giovanni
- Bierstadt, Albert
- Bingham, George Caleb
- Blake, William
- Blume, Peter
- Boccioni, Umberto
- Böcklin, Arnold
- Boethus
- Bologna, Giovanni
- Bonheur, Rosa
- Bonnard, Pierre
- Bosch, Hieronymus
- Botticelli, Sandro
- Boucher, François
- Boudin, Eugène Louis
- Bouguereau, Adolphe William
- Bourke-White, Margaret
- Bouts, Dierick
- Brady, Mathew B.
- Bramante, Donato
- Brancusi, Constantin
- Braque, Georges
- Bronzino, Il
- Brouwer, Adriaen
- Burne-Jones, Sir Edward
- Calder, Alexander
- Callimachus
- Cameron, Julia Margaret
- Campin, Robert
- Canaletto
- Canova, Antonio
- Capa, Robert
- Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
- Carducci, Bartolomeo
- Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste
- Carracci
- Cartier-Bresson, Henri
- Cassatt, Mary
- Cellini, Benvenuto
- Cesari, Giuseppe
- Cézanne, Paul
- Chagall, Marc
- Chicago, Judy
- Chirico, Giorgio de
- Christo
- Christus, Petrus
- Church, Frederick Edwin
- Chu Ta
- Cimabue, Giovanni
- Cleef, Joos van
- Close, Chuck
- Clouet, Jean
- Coburn, Alvin Langdon
- Cole, Thomas
- Constable, John
- Copley, John Singleton
- Cornell, Joseph
- Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille
- Correggio
- Cortona, Pietro Berrettini da
- Courbet, Gustave
- Cozens, Alexander
- Cranach, Lucas
- Critius
- Cruikshank, George
- Cunningham, Imogen
- Currier & Ives
- Dali, Salvador
- Daubigny, Charles-François
- Daumier, Honoré
- David, Gerard
- David, Jacques-Louis
- Davies, Arthur Bowen
- Davis, Stuart
- Day, Stockwell
- Degas, Edgar
- de Kooning, Willem
- Delacroix, Eugène
- Delaroche, Hippolyte
- Delaunay, Robert
- Delaunay-Terk, Sonia
- Demuth, Charles
- Derain, André
- Diebenkorn, Richard
- Dix, Otto
- Doesburg, Theo van
- Doig, Peter
- Donatello
- Doré, Gustave
- Dove, Arthur Garfield
- Dubuffet, Jean
- Duchamp, Marcel
- Dufy, Raoul
- Durand, Asher Brown
- Dürer, Albrecht
- Eakins, Thomas
- Ernst, Max
- Erté
- Escher, Maurits Corneille
- Evans, Frederick H.
- Evans, Walker
- Eyck, van
- Falconet, Étienne Maurice
- Feininger, Lyonel
- Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
- Frank, Robert
- Frankenthaler, Helen
- Friedlander, Lee
- Friedlander, Leo
- Friedrich, Caspar David
- Fuseli, Henry
- Gainsborough, Thomas
- Gauguin, Paul
- Geertgen tot Sint Jans
- Gentileschi, Artemisia
- Gentileschi, Orazio
- Géricault, Jean Louis André Théodore
- Ghiberti, Lorenzo
- Ghirlandaio, Domenico
- Giacometti, Alberto
- Giorgione
- Giotto
- Glackens, William James
- Glaser, Milton
- Goes, Hugo van der
- Gorey, Edward
- Gorky, Arshile
- Gottlieb, Adolph
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
- Gozzoli, Benozzo
- Greco, El
- Greenaway, Kate
- Greuze, Jean-Baptiste
- Gris, Juan
- Grooms, Red
- Grosz, George
- Grünewald, Mathias
- Guercino
- Guston, Philip
- Hals, Frans
- Haring, Keith
- Hartley, Marsden
- Harunobu, Suzuki
- Hassam, Childe
- Heade, Martin Johnson
- Henri, Robert
- Hepworth, Dame Barbara
- Hicks, Thomas
- Hine, Lewis
- Hiroshige, Ando
- Hirschfeld, Al
- Hobbema, Meindert
- Hockney, David
- Hogarth, William
- Hokusai, Katsushika
- Holbein, Hans
- Homer, Winslow
- Hooch, Pieter de
- Hopper, Edward
- Hsia Kuei
- Hunt, William Holman
- Hunt, William Morris
- Hurd, Peter
- Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique
- Inness, George
- Jekyll, Gertrude
- Johns, Jasper
- Jordaens, Jacob
- Kahlo, Frida
- Kandinsky, Wassily
- Kano
- Keane, Margaret
- Kelly, Ellsworth
- Kensett, John Frederick
- Kent, Rockwell
- Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
- Kiyonaga
- Klee, Paul
- Klimt, Gustav
- Kline, Franz
- Klinger, Max
- Koetsu Hon'ami
- Kokoschka, Oskar
- Kollwitz, Käthe Schmidt
- Krasner, Lee
- Kroll, Leon
- Kuhn, Walt
- Ku K'ai-chih
- Kuniyoshi, Yasuo
- Lachaise, Gaston
- La Farge, John
- Lange, Dorothea
- Larsson, Carl
- Lartigue, Jacques Henri
- La Tour, Georges de
- Lawrence, Jacob
- Lawrence, Sir Thomas
- Lawson, Ernest
- Lear, Edward
- Le Brun, Charles
- Léger, Fernand
- Legros, Alphonse
- Leochares
- Leonardo da Vinci
- LeWitt, Sol
- Lichtenstein, Roy
- Liebermann, Max
- Lipchitz, Jacques
- Lippi
- Lissitzky, Eliezer (El) Markovich
- Li T'ang
- Longhi, Pietro
- Lotto, Lorenzo
- Louis, Morris
- Luks, George Benjamin
- Lysippos
- Mabuse, Jan de
- Macke, August
- Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
- Magritte, René
- Malevich, Casimir
- Manet, Édouard
- Mantegna, Andrea
- Mapplethorpe, Robert
- Marc, Franz
- Marini, Marino
- Marsh, Reginald
- Martini, Simone
- Masaccio
- Massys, Quentin
- Matisse, Henri
- Max, Peter
- Ma Yüan
- Meunier, Constantin
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Millais, Sir John Everett
- Millet, Francis Davis
- Millet, Jean François
- Miró, Joan
- Modigliani, Amedeo
- Moholy-Nagy, László
- Mondrian, Piet
- Monet, Claude
- Moore, Henry
- Morandi, Giorgio
- Moreau, Gustave
- Moretto, Il
- Morisot, Berthe
- Moroni, Giovanni Battista
- Moronobu, Hishikawa
- Morris, William
- Moses, Grandma
- Motherwell, Robert
- Mucha, Alphonse
- Munch, Edvard
- Munkácsy, Mihály
- Murillo, Bartolomé Estéban
- Muybridge, Eadweard
- Myron
- Nadar
- Nash, Paul
- Nasmyth, Alexander
- Nast, Thomas
- Nevelson, Louise
- Newman, Barnett
- Niepce, Joseph Nicéphore
- Noguchi, Isamu
- Noland, Kenneth
- Nolde, Emil
- Ogata Kenzan
- Ogata Korin
- O'Keeffe, Georgia
- Oldenburg, Claes
- Oost, Jacob van
- Orozco, José Clemente
- O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
- Oudry, Jean Baptiste
- Overbeck, Johann Friedrich
- Paeonius
- Paik, Nam June
- Palmer, Erastus Dow
- Pareja, Juan de
- Parmigiano
- Parrhasius
- Parrish, Maxfield
- Patinir, Joachim de
- Pencz, Georg
- Perugino
- Phidias
- Picasso, Pablo
- Piero della Francesca
- Piero di Cosimo
- Piloty, Karl von
- Pinturicchio
- Pippin, Horace
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
- Pisanello
- Pisano, Andrea
- Pissarro, Camille
- Pogány, Willy
- Pollock, Jackson
- Polykleitos
- Pontormo, Jacopo da
- Posada, José Guadalupe
- Potter, Beatrix
- Poussin, Nicolas
- Pozzo, Andrea dal
- Praxiteles
- Prendergast, Maurice Brazil
- Primaticcio, Francesco
- Prud'hon, Pierre Paul
- Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre
- Pyle, Howard
- Pythagoras of Rhegium
- Quercia, Jacopo della
- Rackham, Arthur
- Raphael Santi
- Rauschenberg, Robert
- Ray, Man
- Redon, Odilon
- Reinhardt, Ad
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
- Remington, Frederic
- Renoir, Pierre Auguste
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua
- Ribera, Jusepe
- Richier, Germaine
- Riemenschneider, Tilman
- Rivera, Diego
- Rivers, Larry
- Rockwell, Norman
- Rodchenko, Aleksandr
- Rodin, Auguste
- Rosa, Salvator
- Rossellino, Antonio
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
- Rosso, Il
- Rothko, Mark
- Rouault, Georges
- Rousseau, Henri
- Rousseau, Théodore
- Rubens, Peter Paul
- Ruisdael, Jacob van
- Sacchi, Andrea
- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
- Sander, August
- Sansovino, Jacopo
- Sargent, John Singer
- Sarto, Andrea del
- Schapiro, Meyer
- Schiele, Egon
- Schlemmer, Oskar
- Schwitters, Kurt
- Scopas
- Segal, George
- Sendak, Maurice Bernard
- Serra, Richard
- Sesshu
- Seurat, Georges
- Seuss, Dr.
- Shahn, Ben
- Sheeler, Charles
- Shen Chou
- Shih-T'ao
- Shinn, Everett
- Shubun
- Shunsho
- Signac, Paul
- Signorelli, Luca
- Siqueiros, David Alfaro
- Sisley, Alfred
- Sloan, John
- Smibert, John
- Smith, David
- Smith, W. Eugene
- Sotatsu Tawaraya
- Soutine, Chaïm
- Staël, Nicholas de
- Steen, Jan
- Steichen, Edward
- Stella, Frank
- Stella, Joseph
- Stieglitz, Alfred
- Still, Clyfford
- Strand, Paul
- Strozzi, Bernardo
- Stuart, Gilbert
- Stubbs, George
- Sully, Thomas
- Talbot, William Henry Fox
- Tamayo, Rufino
- Tanguy, Yves
- Tenniel, Sir John
- Ter Borch, Gerard
- Terbrugghen, Hendrick
- Thorvaldsen, Albert Bertel
- Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
- Tiffany, Louis Comfort
- Tintoretto
- Titian
- Torrigiano, Pietro
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
- Toyokuni
- Trumbull, John
- Tung Ch'i-ch'ang
- Tura, Cosmé
- Turner, Joseph Mallord William
- Uccello, Paolo
- Utamaro, Kitagawa
- Utrillo, Maurice
- Valadon, Suzanne
- Van Der Zee, James
- Van Dyck, Sir Anthony
- Van Gogh, Vincent
- Vasari, Giorgio
- Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y
- Vereshchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich
- Vermeer, Jan
- Veronese, Paolo
- Verrocchio, Andrea del
- Vlaminck, Maurice de
- Vuillard, Édouard
- Warhol, Andy
- Warner, Olin Levi
- Watteau, Jean-Antoine
- Watts, George Frederic
- Weber, Max
- Wedgwood, Josiah
- Weenix, Jan Baptist
- West, Benjamin
- Weston, Edward
- Weyden, Roger van der
- Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
- Wilkie, Sir David
- Wood, Grant
- Wright, Joseph
- Wyeth, Andrew Newell
- Wyeth, Newell Convers
- Yeats, Jack Butler
- Yen Li-pen
- Zadkine, Ossip
- Zeuxis
- Zorach, William
- Zorn, Anders Leonhard
- Zuccaro
- Zurbarán, Francisco de
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