Anthony Van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish painter. Short Biography: Born in Antwerp, he was an assistant to Rubens 1618-1620, then briefly worked in England at the court of...

Duccio di Buoninsegna

Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1255-1319) was a Italian painter, a major figure in the Sienese school. Short Biography: His greatest work is his altarpiece for Siena Cathedral, the...

Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) was a French painter, a pioneer in abstract art. Short Biography: With his wife Sonia Delaunay-Terk he invented Orphism, an early variation on Cuhism...

Eugene Delacroix

Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was a French painter in the Romantic style. Short Biography: His prolific output included religious and historical subjects and portraits of friends...

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was a French painter in the Neo-Classical style. Short Biography: He was an active supporter of and unofficial painter to the republic during...

Johann Christian Dahl

Johann Christian Dahl (1788-1857) was a Norwegian landscape painter in the Romantic style. Short Biography: He trained in Copenhagen but was active chiefly in Dresden from 1818....

Richard Dadd

Richard Dadd (1817-1887) was a British painter. Short Biography: In 1843 he murdered his father and was committed to an insane asylum, but continued to paint minutely detailed...

Aelbert Cuyp

Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) was a Dutch painter of countryside scenes, seascapes, and portraits. Short Biography: His idyllically peaceful landscapes are bathed in golden light...

Carlo Crivelli

Carlo Crivelli (1435-1495) was an Italian painter in the early Renaissance style, active in Venice. Short Biography: He painted extremely detailed, decorated religious works...

Lucas Cranach

Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) was a German painter, etcher, and woodcut artist, a leading light in the German Renaissance. Short Biography: He painted many full length nudes and...

John Robert Cozens

John Robert Cozens (1752-1797) was a British landscape painter, a watercolourist, whose Romantic views of Europe. Short Biography: He painted on tours in the 1770s and 1780s,...

Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French artist, a portrait, genre, and landscape painter. Short Biography: Reacting against academic trends, both Classicist and Romantic, he...

John Sell Cotman

John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) was a British landscape painter, with Crome a founder of the Norwich school, a group of realistic landscape painters influenced by Dutch examples. Cotman...

Antonio da Correggio

Antonio Allegri da Correggio (c. 1494-1534) was a Italian painter of the High Renaissance. Short Biography: His style followed the classical grandeur of Leonardo and Titian but...

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) was a French painter, creator of a distinctive landscape style with cool colours and soft focus. Short Biography: His early work, particularly...

John Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) was a American painter. Short Biography: He was the leading portraitist of the colonial period, but from 1775 he lived mainly in London, where...

John Constable

John Constable (1776-1837) was a English landscape painter. Short Biography: The scenes of his native Suffolk are well loved and include The Haywain in 1821 (National Gallery...

Cimabue

Giovanni Cimabue (c. 1240-1302) was a Italian painter, active in Florence, traditionally styled the "father of Italian painting". Short Biography: Among the works attributed...

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) was a French painter of naturalistic still lifes and quiet domestic scenes that recall the Dutch tradition. Short Biography: His work...

Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) was an Italian sculptor and goldsmith working in the Mannerist style; author of an arrogant autobiography (begun in 1558). Short Biography: Among...

William Caxton

William Caxton (c. 1422-1491) was the First English printer. Short Biography: He learned the art of printing in Cologne, Germany in 1471 and set up a press in Belgium, where...

George Catlin

George Catlin (1796-1872) was an American painter and explorer. Short Biography: From the 1830s he made a series of visits to the Great Plains, painting landscapes and scenes...

Andrea del Castagno

Andrea del Castagno (c. 1421-1457) was a Italian Renaissance painter, active in Florence. Short Biography: In his frescoes in Sta Apollonia, Florence, he adapted the pictorial...

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) was a French sculptor, whose lively naturalistic subjects include La Danse 1865-1869 for the Opera, Paris. Short Biography: Another example...