Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. He is best known for his later allegorical...
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze was a German American history painter best-known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. Leutze was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg...
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was an Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. He has been...
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /ˈælmə ˈtædɪmə/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 Dronrijp, the Netherlands - 25 June 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany) was one of the most renowned painters of late...
Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England....
Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism....
Sir Thomas Lawrence RA (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a notable English painter, mostly of portraits. He was born in Bristol. His father was an innkeeper, first at Bristol and...
John Ruskin is best known for his work as an art critic, sage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on...
John Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known...
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive...
Benjamin Robert Haydon (26 January 1786 – 22 June 1846) was an English historical painter and writer. Haydon was born at Plymouth. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Cobley...
Henry Fuseli was a British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the...
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth...
Sir David Wilkie (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter. Wilkie was the son of the parish minister of Cults in Fife. He developed a love for art at an early age. In 1799...
Sir Henry Raeburn was a Scottish portrait painter. He was born the son of a manufacturer in Stockbridge, a former village now within the city of Edinburgh. Orphaned, he was...
George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was a British painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Stubbs was born in Liverpool, the son of a currier and leather merchant...
Paul Gustave Doré (French pronunciation: [pɔl ɡystav dɔʁe]; January 6, 1832 –; January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood...
Washington Allston (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American poet and influential painter, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of...
Joseph Wright , styled Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit...
Théodore Géricault was an important French painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. He was one of the pioneers of the Romantic...
Thomas Girtin (18 February 1775 – 9 November 1802) was an English painter and etcher, who played a key role in establishing watercolour as a reputable art form. He was born in Southwark...
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson January 5, 1767 – December 9, 1824, was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis...
John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an important and influential English Romantic painter of the nineteenth century. Martin was born at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in...
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Ukrainian: Іва́н Костянти́нович Айвазо́вський, Russian: Иван Константинович Айвазовский, Armenian: Հովհաննես Այվազովսկի - Hovhannes Aivasovsky, originally...
Ary Scheffer , French painter of Dutch extraction, was born at Dordrecht. After the early death of his father, a poor painter, Ary's mother took him to Paris and placed...