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In 1798, Hokusai began working as an independent artist, taking the name Hokusai Tomisa. By 1800 Hokusai continued to develop the use of ukiyo-e for purposes other than portraits. He also adopted the name he became known, Katsushika Hokusai. During these years, he published two collections of landscapes,...

Jan Gossaert is a Flemish artist from Maubeuge. He has decided to accept as his last name his hometown name or Jan Mabuse. Jan Gossaert was influenced very strongly in his young years by the Italian masters. He is also one of the first Flemish artists to visit Rome and bring in the Flemish tradition...

Adriaen van Utrecht and Frans Snyders are considered to be the leading inventors of the Flemish painting still-life genre. The two artists emphasize abundance by depicting a variety of objects, fruits, flowers, and dead nature, often with live animals. Van Utrecht also painted many colorful still-lifes....

The example of Anguissola, as well as her work, had a lasting impact on the next generation of artists and her high success opened the way for more women to pursue serious careers as artists. Anguissola's education and training have had different consequences from men's, as men and women have worked...

Otto van Veen is a painter, master of the drawings and a humanist, mostly active in Antwerp and Brussels at 16th and the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was famous for managing a large studio in Antwerp, which produces multiple emblems and coats of arms, and that he was a teacher of Peter...

Hashimoto Gahō was a Japanese artist, one of the last to paint in the Kanō School style. He was born in Edo, where he studied painting at Kanō Shōsen'i and was heavily influenced by Kanō Hōgai's work. Hashimoto Gahō has created many works in the traditional Kanō School style using color and...

Pieter Coecke van Aelst was a Flemish artist who worked in the first half of the 16th century in Brussels and Antwerp in a very wide range of visual arts, ranging from church decoration to jewelry, stained glass, and tapestry. He was the son of the Deputy Mayor of Aalst and had the opportunity to...

Caravaggio clearly expressed dramatic moments and scenes, often with violence, torture, and death. He worked quickly, with live models, preferred not to use preliminary drawings and work directly on the canvas. His influence on the new Baroque style, derived from Mannerism is profound. This influence...

William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", perhaps best known being his moral series A Harlot's...

Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised...

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792) was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specializing in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th Century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect....

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (1829 – 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. A child prodigy, at the age of eleven Millais became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...

Etty was prolific and commercially successful throughout the 1840s, but the quality of his work deteriorated throughout this period. As his health progressively worsened he retired to York in 1848. He died in 1849, shortly after a major retrospective exhibition. In the immediate aftermath of his death...

Paul Delaroche (1797 – 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting history. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic scenes that often portrayed subjects from English and French history. The emotions emphasised in Delaroche's paintings appeal to Romanticism while...