Painters

Albert Anker
Albert Samuel Anker is regarded as the “national painter” of Switzerland. His meticulous paintings of Swiss rural life endeared him to the public and during ...

Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer was an iconic German painter, printmaker, engraver, drafter and architect of Renaissance era who is best celebrated as the creator of the ...

Almeida Junior
Jose Ferraz de Almeida Junior was a major Brazilian painter whose works became a source of inspiration for subsequent modernists. As a painter, he defied the ...

Anna Ancher
Anna Ancher (August 18, 1859 – April 15, 1935) was a Danish painter. Anna Ancher is considered one of Denmark’s great pictorial artists. She along with her ...

Asai Chu
Asai Chu, the famous landscape painter of the Meiji period and of the founder members of Meiji Bijutsukai, is one of the greatest oil painters that Japan has ...

Charles Alston
Charles Alston was a renowned African-American artist of the early 1900s. Not only was he a revolutionary painter, but he was a sculptor, a muralist and also a ...

Constantine Andreou
A figure that played a major role in the advancement of 20th century art, Constantine was an eminent Greek artist and sculptor. With a career spanning over six ...

Cuno Amiet
An important modernist artist, painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor of the 19th century, Cuno Amiet is indeed a name to reckon with in Swiss art ...

Edmond Aman-Jean
Edmond François Aman-Jean was the leading French painter, pastellist and lithographer of his time, whose pivotal pièce de résistance are his interesting ...

Friedrich von Amerling
Friedrich von Amerling was a painter of exceptional forte, widely spatted for his sentimental, simple and pious view of the world in a realistic way in his ...

Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter, a mannerist of the 16th century. The ‘Mannerism’ was a transitional period from 1520 to 1590, which embraced some ...

Jacopo Amigoni
Best fêted for his religious and mythological paintings, Jacopo Amigoni, also known as Giacomo Amiconi, was a prolific 18th century Venetian painter. One of ...

John Altoon
John Altoon was an influential avant-garde American artist of his time who dominated the art scene of 1950s and ‘60s Los Angeles. Most of his works came under ...

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a painter who brought the world of Merovingian and ancient Roman splendor and decadence to life. His life-like portrayals brings ...

Lizzy Ansingh
Lizzy Ansingh was a famous Dutch painter, noted for her doll paintings. What made her paintings so unique was her representation of dolls not as mere objects, ...

Louis Anquetin
Louis Anquetin was regarded as the most promising artist of the 19th century and he was a major influence on other artists of his time and later generations. ...

Michael Ancher
The legendary Danish painter and one of the most prized members of the Skagen School, Michael Peter Ancher was a master artist best known for his realistic ...

Milton Avery
Milton Avery was one of the most distinguished American modern painters of the 20th century. Primarily a colorist, Avery’s work mainly focused on color ...

Rodolfo Amoedo
The famous Brazilian painter and decorator, Rodolfo Amoedo was one of the key heads responsible for the rebirth of teaching and academic aesthetics at the ...

Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali is popularly known as Dali. He is hugely popular around the world for creating a new genre in art – surrealism. Dali is known for his strange, ...

Sophie Gengembre Anderson
Best known for her beautiful, vivid delineation of Victorian children, Sophie Anderson’s oil paintings were like photographic images. With each brush stroke, ...

Tarsila do Amaral
Tarsila do Amaral, better known to the world as Tarsila, was a Brazilian artist who gave Latin American art a new direction. She was the strong woman who lived ...