The 100 Most Famous Artists of All Time – A Captivating Journey Through Art History-In the art world, there are certain names that have transcended eras and become timeless icons. Their exceptional talent, visionary creativity, and contribution to art history have propelled them to the ranks of the most celebrated artists of all time.
In this article, we invite you to dive into a captivating journey through eras and artistic movements to discover the 100 most famous artists of all time. Top 100 Most Famous Paintings in the World 2024
1- Vincent Van Gogh – (1853-1890)
Vincent Van Gogh , the world’s most famous Impressionist artist, painted some of his most famous works while living in Arles, France. Discover the life and work of this great artist in the Master Apollon Collection. Let Van Gogh’s breathtaking works inspire you to create your own interior!
2- Leonardo da Vinci – (1452-1519)
Portrait of an Enigma. Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest geniuses of all time—writer, painter, engineer, inventor, musician, and philosopher. Virtually every modern mechanism originated in his mind. He sketched designs, wrote notes on everything from flying machines to parachute pyramids, conducted groundbreaking anatomical research, and composed music so divine it is said to have inspired another Renaissance genius, Raphael. But da Vinci’s intellect was drowning in a sea of unfinished projects. He was known for his mind going into overdrive, but unable to function…
3- Gustav Klimt (1862 -1918)
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His art focused primarily on portraits, nature, and allegories. The primary colors he used are notable for their vividness. Klimt’s works painted during the Golden Period are characterized by ornate decorations, gold fields, patterns, stylized nature, and sumptuous details.
The Gustav Klimt Collection celebrates the life and work of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. This exclusive collection is inspired by Gustav’s paintings, such as The Kiss (1907), and includes his rich colour palette of reds, blues, purples and golds.
4- Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
5- Franz Marc (1880-1916)
6- Claude Monet (1840-1926)
7- Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
8- Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
9- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
10- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
11- Le Caravage (1571-1610)
12- Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
Explore Goya’s personality, style, and accomplishments in the most comprehensive art collection ever created on this fascinating artist. All of Goya’s works are represented in this collection, including his portraits of famous and infamous figures, his macabre depictions of war and famine that made him a devout classicist, and his idealized treatments of mythological themes. Through The Art of Goya’s unique visual exploration, viewers will discover firsthand why Goya is considered one of the greatest artists in Western history.
13- Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Michelangelo was a Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer. He was considered the greatest artist of his time. Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Tuscany, Italy. His father changed the family name to Buonarroti when Michelangelo became an artist.
Born to a sculptor who was not wealthy, the young Michelangelo received little formal training. But his genius manifested itself early, and by his teens he had caught the attention of the aging master painter and sculptor Lorenzo de’ Medici. In recognition of his talent, Michelangelo was welcomed into the Medici household and given rigorous training, eventually becoming one of Florence’s most celebrated artists.
14- Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Paul Gauguin lived in the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific in the late 19th century. The French painter is best known for his bold use of color in his paintings. Although Gauguin never formally studied painting, he was considered a master during his lifetime. His most famous works date from the period of his life when he lived in Tahiti, where he found inspiration in the exotic natives of the island.
Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings embody the beauty of a tropical paradise, which attracted a whole new audience to a previously little-known region. The artist was not only a painter, but also a writer and sculptor who contributed to the modernist movement by exploring Polynesian art and culture.
15- Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
16- Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
17- Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
18- Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
19- Édouard Manet (1832-1883)
20- Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 -1851)
21- Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
22- Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
23- Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
24- William Bouguereau (1825-1905)
25- Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)
26- Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
27- Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510)
Since the Renaissance, Botticelli has been considered one of the giants of Western art. His work is imbued with an unmistakable Italian flavor, which gave rise to the term “Italian Renaissance style.” Like other major artists of his time, he lived in Florence, Italy, at a time when the city was flourishing economically and culturally.
The Birth of Venus is a painting by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli depicting the birth of Venus. It has been described as “one of the most masterful Neoplatonic images in Western art” and has had a considerable influence on Western art.
28- Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768)
Giovanni Antonio Canal , also known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist renowned for his landscapes. His work served a similar function to that of the modern photographer. At the time, those who could not afford to travel abroad used his paintings as windows into that distant world that intrigued them.
Canaletto traveled throughout Italy and made his city views in Venice, Rome, Padua, Livorno and other cities. His works were popular during the Rococo period and became a great source of inspiration for generations of painters.
29- Max Liebermann (1847-1935)
The son of a successful painter and a concert singer, Max Liebermann was destined from an early age to develop his talent and abilities until his father gave him a paintbrush and asked him to copy one of his own paintings. A perfectionist by nature, Liebermann learned the art of painting by relying heavily on the principles instilled by his father – mixing colors evenly and treating each brushstroke as if it were an orchestral note.
30- Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (1884-1920)
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked primarily in France. He is known for his portraits and nudes in a style characterized by elongated faces and figures, which were not well received during his lifetime.
31- Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923)
Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) was a leading figure in the modernist movement in Spain, beginning in the 1920s. His spectacular use of light and perspective creates an intense energy in his portraits and scenes of everyday life.
32- Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
A masterpiece of the Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer’s famous Self-Portrait has been reproduced countless times over the years. The artist was known for his highly sophisticated technique, and this oil painting is a prime example. A German citizen who spent much of his life in what is now the Czech Republic, Dürer immersed himself in a variety of subjects, including mathematics, geometry, military fortifications, and hydraulics. His works are still revered today.
33- Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1917)
34- Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
35- Raphaël Sanzio (1483-1520)
36- Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
37- Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896)
38- John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925)
39- Paul Klee (1879-1940)
40- Jean-Louis Lagrenée (1724-1805)
41- John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Blessed with a strong artistic talent from an early age, John William Waterhouse left a lasting impression on the art world with his “symphonies of color” and depictions of beautiful women. His paintings have become some of the most famous in the world, and the interest in them continues today.
42- John William Godward (1861 – 1922)
John William Godward was one of the most popular British painters of the late Victorian era. His paintings after 1898 received little critical acclaim, but his popularity with the general public continued until his death. Godward concentrated on classical, allegorical and pastoral subjects. He created over 1,000 paintings, often depicting women in classical poses, but until recently he was not recognised as a serious artist. Many of his works are held at the National Museum Cardiff, including an example entitled “The Mirror”.
43- John Collier (1850-1934)
John Maler Collier ‘s paintings are highly prized by art collectors in the United Kingdom. John Collier also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1875. He was an English artist, known for his paintings of rural scenes and book illustrations. His style of painting became fashionable in Britain in the 1870s.
44- Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
45- Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)
46- Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (1833 – 1922)
47- Paul Delaroche (1797-1856)
48- Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898)
Russian painter, graphic artist and stage designer Ivan Shishkin is a prominent representative of the Romantic movement in art. During his travels across Russia, Shishkin made numerous sketches of the various landscapes of his country, which also served as inspiration for a number of his compositions. In his paintings, Shishkin focused mainly on producing poetic images of nature, with a particular penchant for romantic moonlit scenes. His desire to capture all facets of Russian life led him to experiment with many different styles. This is how he developed a unique national style, both classical and realistic.
49- Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)
Alfons Maria Mucha is known for his inspired and political drawings. He was born in the Czech Republic in 1860 and died in France in 1939. Most of his works were done on a large scale, with large areas of color and bold brushstrokes to convey feelings.
In the 1890s, Czech artist Alfons Maria Mucha made a name for himself as a commercial artist and poster designer. His experience in the advertising mecca of Vienna exposed Mucha to many artistic movements—from Art Nouveau to Symbolism to Futurism—which he enthusiastically applied to his own art.
50- Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)
Jean-Léon Gérôme is probably the most famous French painter of his generation. The diversity of his subjects – ancient ruins, nudes, portraits, the Orient, mythological scenes and anecdotes – earned him the title of one of the most eclectic artists of the 19th century. His work is remarkable for the richness of its details and the energy of its brushstrokes.
51- Carl Spitzweg (1808 – 1885)
52- Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
53- Hans Andersen Brendekilde (1857-1942)
54- Grant Wood (1891-1942)
55- Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose sensitive depiction of the pleasures and emotions of his time made him one of the founders of the Romantic movement in painting. He also made designs for wallpaper and theater sets. Fragonard’s work is distinguished by his use of pastel tones and soft contours. His illustrations were printed in large quantities, but his paintings are now held in museum collections around the world.
56- Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)
Edmund Blair Leighton was an English painter of historical genre works, specializing in depictions of young women in 19th-century costume. Leighton was a Victorian artist whose inspirations came from classical Greek and Renaissance art. He emulated their aesthetic style, while meticulously researching every detail in authentic costumes, photographs, and interiors of that era.
Edmund Blair Leighton was elected to the Royal Academy in 1896, and was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour in 1903.
57- Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter known for his “head portraits” which were made by combining natural objects such as vegetables, fruits and animal body parts with faces made of fruits and vegetables in an allegorical representation. The result is a set of unlikely and thought-provoking images, in which Arcimboldo includes small paintings that illustrate the subject’s life or profession.
“Nature is a replica,” he once said when asked why he liked to paint these things. “It is the artist’s job to do what nature has done in her own way in her own studio.”
58- Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905)
Born in 1815, the artist Adolph von Menzel became an internationally renowned painter. A pupil of the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch, he later studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. His early works were portraits and genre scenes, for which he received medals from groups such as the Paris Salon. In 1849, Menzel became director of the Berlin Academy. However, from this time on, he devoted himself mainly to history painting. The central theme of his works was German cultural history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century; other themes included historical processions and armies.
59- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , a French neoclassical painter, was born on 29 August 1780 in Montauban. Early in his life he worked for a tapestry designer and restorer. In 1801 he left this position to study full-time and, after his apprenticeship at the Academy, became a professor there in 1806. He remained a professor until his death in 1867. Ingres won a gold medal for his paintings at the Paris Salon of 1804 and again in 1806. He was a critic during the reign of Napoleon III until 1863.
60- Herbert James Draper (1863-1920)
Born in London, Herbert James Draper was the son of the famous Victorian artist Henry Mercer. He studied at the Royal Academy where he became one of the great decorative painters of his day. During this time he became quite wealthy and was praised for his sense of colour and design; however, by the dawn of the 21st century his work had all but fallen into oblivion. Today, more than 100 years after Draper’s death, his work has begun to evolve to regain its rightful place among the greatest works of art ever produced by an Englishman.
61- Lionel-Noël Royer (1852-1926)
62- Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816-1868)
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze était un peintre d’histoire américain d’origine allemande, surtout connu pour son tableau “Washington traversant le Delaware”. Il est souvent considéré comme l’un des plus grands peintres américains de son temps. Leutze est né à Schwäbisch Gmünd, dans le duché de Württemberg. Son père était marchand de tapisseries. En 1815, après avoir terminé son apprentissage, il se rend à Munich où il étudie avec Wilhelm von Kaulbach.
L’œuvre la plus célèbre de Leutze, Washington traversant le Delaware, a été suspendue au-dessus du podium de la Chambre des représentants des États-Unis pendant 104 ans. L’Académie américaine des arts et des sciences l’a qualifiée de “tableau historique le plus important d’Amérique”.
63- Vicente Juan Masip (1507 – 1579)
64- August Macke (1887-1914)
65- Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
66- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
67- Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904)
68- Hokusai (1760-1849)
69- Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Georges Seurat was a French artist best known for founding the Neo-Impressionist movement. His precise pointillist technique and use of a unique color theory dominated the movement’s work, although he himself abandoned the style early in his career. Seurat’s large, looping dots are most prominent in his masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, but they are present in all of his works. The effect appears haphazard at first glance, but it comes from Seurat’s application of the physics of light.
70- Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873)
Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) was one of the most popular and respected British artists. He was renowned for his depictions of animals, particularly horses. Landseer was particularly interested in painting animals, which he feared were becoming extinct due to population growth and the gradual change in agricultural methods. His works often focus on animals as individuals or as symbols of powerful forces such as nature or the state, and their relationship to humanity.
71- Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old West. He is known for his paintings of scenes from the last quarter of the 19th century in America, when Western expansion was taking place on a large scale. Cowboys, American Indians, soldiers, cowboys camping in front of their tents or in camp during various seasons of the year. Horses in various scenes, including mounted cowboys rounding up cattle in North America. Western towns and ranches when they were inhabited.
72- Henri Rousseau (1844-1910
Declared the father of naive art, Henri Rousseau created sumptuous natural landscapes, often populated by mythical jungle creatures. He is most famous for his paintings of lush jungles, but he also captured everyday cityscapes and domestic interiors with great skill. Unorthodox in his technique and personal life, Rousseau’s art was the antithesis of the academicism of his time.
73- Paul Victor Jules Signac (1863-1935)
Paul Victor Jules Signac , also known as Paul Signac, was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. Paul Signac was born in Paris on 11 November 1863. He joined the Navy to train as an engineer, but spent most of his time painting and took to signing his works with the name “Paul Signac”, which he claimed to have borrowed from the English.
74- Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
Alfred Sisley is one of the most famous landscape painters of the 19th century. Called “Camille Corot’s best pupil”, Sisley was a deliberate and methodical painter, producing some 300 canvases a year. During his lifetime, he was better known in France than in his native England, and was refused membership in the Royal Academy in London because of his nationality. In 1848, Sisley moved to Paris, where he found work decorating carousel horses for a merry-go-round at the Hippodrome.
75- George Stubbs (1724-1806)
For over 300 years, George Stubbs has been regarded as one of England’s greatest equestrian painters. This collection reinterprets contemporary equestrian art and original paintings for printmaking in a way that reflects modern design sensibilities relevant to today’s lifestyles.
76- Félix Edouard Vallotton (1865-1925)
Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) was a French painter and engraver of Swiss origin, affiliated with the Nabis. He was one of the leaders of the avant-garde artistic movement, Neo-Impressionism, developing a free pointillist style of painting. Fastidious and persevering, he is known for his numerous landscapes and still lifes and for his series of reflections on the properties of color.
77- Jean-Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Jean-Edouard Vuillard was born in Normandy into a prominent family of artisans. A junior member of the influential Impressionist movement, his paintings are honest masterpieces of their time that accurately depict important people and events in world history. His depictions of the modernization of Paris during the Belle Époque are remarkable for their realism and human emotion, while his portraits capture the individuality that made his subject truly unique.
78- Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)
Umberto Boccioni is the founder of the movement known as Futurism. He was born in Reggio Calabria, lived in Milan before settling in Paris in 1908. After traveling extensively in Europe, including in Russia for several months, he returned to Italy after the outbreak of World War I. He participated in the creation of the Futurist Manifesto published in 1909 and organized by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
79- Jean-Frédéric Bazille (1841 – 1870)
Jean-Frédéric Bazille was a French painter, born in Belfort. He studied with Gleyre, and his first painting, The Edge of the Forest, exhibited in 1866, is now in the Louvre. In 1868 he went to Pont-Aven, where he worked with Émile Bernard and met Paul Gauguin. The two artists visited Brittany together the following year. Bazille led a short and eventful life; he died of injuries received in a railway accident near Dunkirk.
80- Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845)
Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) was a French painter of genre scenes and portraits. Born into an artistically inclined family, Boilly received his early training from his father, a painter of miniatures. Robust in figure, large in nose, and rather heavy in the lower part of the face, he presented himself under the Empire with a brevet rank of brigade leader of the National Guard. He continued to paint intermittently throughout his life, while pursuing a career as a civil servant. In 1800, the leaders of fashion gathered in his studio to attend his marriage to one of them.
81- Jules Aldolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1879-1944)
Jules Breton was a French painter born in Vannes, a seaport in western France. The son of a sailor and a seamstress, he spent his early childhood in his hometown before moving to Paris in 1895. While living there, he was admitted to the Faculty of Medicine, but he never attended. In Paris, however, he exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants in 1903 and at the Salon d’Automne in 1905. He died during World War II when an aircraft bomb demolished his studio in Paris.
82- Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901)
At once melancholic and macabre, Arnold Böcklin ‘s vast canvases , often populated by mysterious figures in strange landscapes, had a profound influence on the younger generation of German Symbolists in the 1890s. A former student of the Munich Academy, famous for its lush, romantic images of Mediterranean islands, Böcklin underwent a profound change in perspective after his service as a military doctor during the Franco-Prussian War. His new works depicted strange harbors, barren cliffs, and impossible ruins, populated by strange figures wrapped in shrouds evoking biblical themes, all rendered in increasingly agitated, almost frenetic brushstrokes.
83- Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889)
Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter born in Montpellier in 1823. He is known for his historical, religious and mythological paintings. His best-known works include “Jupiter and Thetis”, “The Death of Adonis”, “The Birth of Venus”, etc. Cabanel entered the École des Beaux-Arts at the age of nineteen, where he studied with Paul Delaroche. His studies were interrupted when his father lost his income from the market and could not finance his further education.
84- Jules-Cyrille Cavé (1820-1913)
Born in Paris, Jules Cyrille Cavé was a student of Tony Robert-Fleury, a professor at the Académie Julian, and of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, one of the greatest salon painters of the 19th century. He also became a professor at the Académie Julian, but also a portrait painter under the influence of the Fauves. His paintings, which typically depict women with soft bodies against discreet backgrounds, have been described as examples of impressionist realism.
85- Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844 – 1926)
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the modern woman, and she became a leading figure in the development of the Impressionist style. Her work helped bring more naturalism to painting.
86- Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
Thomas Cole was a British-born American artist. He is considered the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Thomas Cole is known for his landscape and nature paintings. Recurring themes in his work are nature, religion, and idealism with romantic interpretations where people’s relationship with their environment is important.
87- Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844-1944)
A highly original painter, Cassius Coolidge is one of America’s greatest pictorial satirists. His brushwork and draughtsmanship were always sure and incisive. “Cash’s” paintings are a significant commentary on life in America at the turn of the century. They capture a sense of indolence and indifference that was present in America at that time. He was a skilled draftsman as well as an inventive colorist, and he approached his subject matter like a true professional.
88- Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896)
Luis Ricardo Falero painted a number of works in the late 19th century in a variety of media, but he is probably best known for his highly detailed paintings of nude models. His subjects were among the most controversial of the time as they depicted nude female models working as prostitutes or unaware that they were being observed. At a time when many women faced inequality, the depiction of a woman as a prostitute was highly frowned upon, leading to Falero being sued more than once.
89- Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656)
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c. 1656) was an Italian Baroque artist whose painting style was influenced by her father’s training with Caravaggio. Artemisia worked in the male-dominated world of Baroque painting, and she was one of the few women working at the time. Her Baroque paintings are characterized by dramatic compositions and illuminated scenes, inherited from her father’s influence…
90- Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (1791 – 1824)
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a French neoclassical painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Géricault was born in Valenciennes on April 9, 1791. When he completed his education with local teachers, he was sent to Paris to further his studies under the supervision of his maternal uncle, Raymond Duran. In 1815, he began to show signs of mental instability and was taken to a psychiatric hospital. In late 1818, the artist left the hospital and began enrolling in several art classes that he had attended.
91- Francesco Hayez (1791-1882)
Best known for the works he produced during the Romantic Age of painting, Francesco Hayez is widely considered one of the most important Italian artists of the period. Working primarily as a history painter and portraitist, his oeuvre is quite wide-ranging, ranging from artistic depictions of historical artifacts to portraits of wealthy patrons and commoners.
92- Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911)
Jules Joseph Lefebvre , known as Jules Lefebvre, was a French painter specializing in historical and genre scenes. Born in Rouen into a family of artists, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Alexandre Cabanel and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. He then moved to Paris, where he opened his own studio and taught painting. In 1885, a scholarship from Rome allowed him to travel to Rome, Italy, where he produced a series of paintings devoted to daily life in the Italian capital.
93- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901)
94- Charles-Amable Lenoir (1860 – 1926)
Charles-Amable Lenoir was a realist painter, a pupil of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. He received his first medal at the age of fifteen and won several others, including a silver medal at the 1889 Universal Exhibition for his painting The Guardian of Souls. In 1885, he won the Prix de Rome with The Education of Achilles by Chiron, after which he received portrait commissions from the French government.
95- Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)
Today, Claude is recognized as one of the greatest landscape painters of all time. His work is popular, but his oeuvre is vast – more than 1,000 paintings are known worldwide, not to mention his drawings and prints. The most impressive aspect of Claude Lorrain’s artistic career is that the artist never left the North of France. Raised in Honfleur, on the Normandy coast, he remained there his entire life, visiting the Netherlands only once.
96- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618-1682)
Born in Seville, Spain in 1618, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo produced thousands of paintings throughout his career. He is best known for his depictions of the Virgin Mary surrounded by heavenly angels, although portraits also feature prominently in his oeuvre.
97- Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
Born in Pradise, Sir John Everett Millais was a painter renowned as one of the co-founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an art movement he launched while a student at the Royal Academy in London. The Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic is reflected in his most famous works, including Ophelia and Isabella. This beautiful wall tapestry pays tribute to one of the most influential figures in 19th-century British art.
98- Guido Reni (1575-1642)
Passion, brilliance and power. Guido Reni ‘s art is a visual exploration of the grandeur and glory of the divine. During his stay in Bologna, Rome and Venice, his contribution to Baroque art was crucial in Italy. His talents as a portraitist, confectioner of elegant religious images and spectaculars reveal a rich creative spirit, a dynamic expressive style that tested the potential of the Baroque age.
99- Briton Rivière (1840-1920)
Briton Rivière was an artist whose works depicted animals in the style of contemporary French painters, including Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier and Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville. He was born in 1840 in London to a family of French Protestant refugees who had fled France during the French Revolutions to seek the safety of their religion in Britain. He studied at Sass’s Academy and then at the Royal Academy Schools. His early work was influenced by his teachers Felix Octavius Carr Darby and Thomas Shotter Boys, both of whom were animal painters.
100- Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema , Bt. was a Dutch painter and designer of English origin and Italian extraction, naturalized British. He was known for his genre painting of classical themes using elegant figures in a style that anticipated “big business” painting. In his use of composition and color, he is said to have been a major influence on James Abbott McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent.
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