Artists by Time Period: Impressionism

Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
Authors, Artists

Auguste Rodin was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one...

Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot
Artists

Berthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because...

Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Authors, Artists

Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent...

Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro
Authors, Artists

Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in...

Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet
Artists, Authors

Édouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a...

Frédéric Bazille
Frédéric Bazille
Artists

Jean Frédéric Bazille was a French Impressionist painter whose major works often foreground the figure within a landscape painted en plein air. Frédéric Bazille was...

Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt
Authors, Artists

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among...

Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
Authors, Artists

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Authors, Artists

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine...

Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
Authors, Artists

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces....

Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
Authors, Artists

Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but...

Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
Artists, Authors

Edgar Degas , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas , was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and...

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Artists

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter, who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced...

Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte
Artists

Gustave Caillebotte , was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than...

Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley
Artists, Authors

Alfred Sisley was an English Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France. Sisley is recognized as perhaps the most consistent...

John Henry Twachtman
John Henry Twachtman
Artists

John Henry Twachtman was an American painter best-known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider...

Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington
Artists, Authors

Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 - December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West...

J. Alden Weir
J. Alden Weir
Artists

Julian Alden Weir was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut. Weir was also one of "The Ten", a loosely-allied...

Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann
Artists

Max Liebermann (July 20, 1847 – February 8, 1935) was a German-Jewish painter and printmaker best known for his etching and lithography. The son of a Jewish businessman from Berlin...

Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy
Artists

Raoul Dufy was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs for ceramics, textiles and decorative schemes for public...

Maurice Prendergast
Maurice Prendergast
Artists, Authors

Maurice Brazil Prendergast was a U.S. post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. Technically, he was a member of The Eight, but the...

Eugène Boudin
Eugène Boudin
Artists

Eugène Boudin (12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon...

Frederick McCubbin
Frederick McCubbin
Artists

Frederick McCubbin (25 February 1855 – 20 December 1917) was an Australian painter who was prominent in the famous Heidelberg School, one of the most important periods in Australia's visual...

Lilla Cabot Perry
Lilla Cabot Perry
Authors, Artists

Lilla Cabot Perry (January 13, 1848—February 28, 1933) was an American artist who worked in the Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor...

Juan Luna
Juan Luna
Artists

Juan Luna y Novicio was a Filipino painter in the late 19th century. He was born in Badoc, Ilocos Norte, Philippines, the third child of seven children. He is a descendant...

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