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 Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664) painted religious subjects in a powerful, austere style, often focusing on a single figure in prayer. Short Biography: Zurbaran used deep contrasts... | |
 Joseph Wright (1734-1797) painted portraits, landscapes, and scientific experiments. Short Biography: His work is often dramatically lit, by fire, candlelight, or even volcanic... | |
 Grant Wood (1892-1942) work is highly stylized, he struck a note of hard realism in his studies of farmers, such as American Gothic in 1930 (Art Institute, Chicago). Why is Grant... |  James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) riverscapes and portraits show subtle composition and colour harmonies, for example Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painters... |
 Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1399-1464) painted portraits and religious subjects, such as The Last Judgement about 1450. His refined style had considerable impact on Netherlandish painting. Short... |  Benjamin West (1738-1820) enjoyed the patronage of George III for many years and painted historical pictures. Short Biography: West was born in Pennsylvania. He became president... |
 George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) painted allegorical, biblical, and classical subjects, investing his work with a solemn morality. Many of his portraits are in the National Portrait... |  Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) developed a new category of genre painting known as the fete galante, scenes of a kind of aristocratic pastoral fantasy world. Short Biography: One... |
 Jean-Edouard Vuillard (1886-1940) work is mainly decorative, with an emphasis on surface pattern reflecting the influence of Japanese prints. With Bonnard he produced numerous lithographs... |  Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) began using brilliant colour as an early member of the Fauves, mainly painting landscapes. Short Biography: Later he abandoned Fauve colour. He... |
 Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (1755-1842) became painter to Queen Marie Antoinette in the 1780s (many royal portraits survive). Short Biography: At the outbreak of the Revolution... |  Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and goldsmith, born in Florence, where he ran a large workshop and received commissions from the Medici family. Short... |
 Paolo Veronese (c.1528-1588) specialised in grand decorative schemes, such as his ceilings in the Doge's Palace in Venice, with trompe I'oeil effects and inventive detail. The subjects... |  Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) pictures are genre scenes, depicting everyday life with a limpid clarity and distinct air of stillness, and a harmonious palette often focusing on yellow and... |
 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (1599-1660) became court painter to Philip IV in Madrid in 1623, where he produced many portraits of the royal family, as well as occasional religious... |  Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was an Italian art historian, architect, and painter, author of Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters and Sculptors in 1550 (enlarged and revised... |
 Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) was a Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e ("floating world") school, who created muted colour prints of beautiful women, including informal studies of prostitutes. His... |  Adopted name of Paolo di Dono (1397-1475) surviving paintings date from the 1430s onwards. Short Biography: Decorative colour and detail dominate his later pictures. His works... |
 Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) travelled widely in Europe, and his landscapes became increasingly Romantic, with the subject often transformed in scale and flooded with brilliant... |  Anglicized form of the name of Tiziano Vecellio (c.1487-1576) became in 1533 court painter to Charles V, Holy Roman emperor, whose son Philip II of Spain later became his patron. Short... |
 Tintoretto real name Jacopo Robusti (1518-1594) dramatic religious paintings are spectacularly lit and full of movement, such as his canvases of the lives of Christ and the Virgin in... |  Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) created monumental Rococo decorative schemes in palaces and churches in North-Est Italy, Soth-West Germany, and in Madrid (1762-1770). The... |
 Gerard Terborch (1617-1681) was a Dutch painter of small-scale portraits and genre (everyday) scenes, mainly of soldiers at rest or wealthy families in their homes. He travelled... |  Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) inventive canvases feature semi-abstract creatures in a barren landscape. Short Biography: Tanguy was first inspired to paint by de ihirico's work and... |
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