04/13/1769 - 01/07/1830
Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.
04/27/1899 - 03/22/1994
Walter Benjamin Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.
10/17/1859 - 08/27/1935
Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was a prominent American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. He produced over 3,000 paintings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs in his career, and...
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05/14/1727 - 09/02/1788
Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter.
Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz)
05/10/1899 - 06/22/1987
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he m...
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01/07/1830 - 02/18/1902
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 - February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his large landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Wes...
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03/20/1811 - 07/07/1879
George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity,...
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02/01/1801 - 02/11/1848
Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century....
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01/28/1912 - 08/11/1956
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and no...
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07/10/1834 - 07/17/1903
The American painter, etcher, and lithographer James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) created a new set of principles for the fine arts, championed art for art's sake, and introduced a subtle style of painting in w...
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09/01/1926 - 06/23/2011
Gene Colan, a Bronx-born artist and legend in the comic book industry, Thursday, June 23, 2011. He was 84.
02/07/1741 - 04/17/1825
Henry Fuseli (February 7, 1741 – April 17, 1825) was a British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of Swiss origin.
07/19/1789 - 02/17/1854
John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator.
10/25/1881 - 04/02/1973
Pablo Picasso (born October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain—died April 8, 1973, Mougins, France) Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th ce...
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06/11/1776 - 03/31/1837
John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home...
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