Artist Biographies

Gustave Courbet was far from the typical rule obeying artist, he was a fierce rebel...

Nihal Chand (c. 1710 – after 1782) was the pre-eminent painter of the Kishangarh school,...

Golu of Nurpur occupies an important position in the history of Pahari miniature painting. Active...

Samarendranath Gupta (1887–1964) was an eminent artist, printmaker, and pioneer of modern Indian art pedagogy...

Born in Catalonia, Pelegrin Clave is a painter of the Romantic era, who became the...

Muhammad Sharif is one of those Mughal-court figures who’s easy to overlook precisely because his...

Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche was one of the most well-known history painters of France in the nineteenth...

Tsukio-e master Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) played a pivotal role in the history of Japanese ukiyo-e, especially...

Giovanni Bellini (1435-1516), an influential painter from the Italian Renaissance, was a leading central figure...

Ivan Kramskoy(1837-1887) is remembered for creating art that he believed should be morally useful and...