Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, chiming with the moral climate of the final years of the ancien régime. David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre, …

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (pronounced ("Ang", rhymes with "bang", with a hint of the "r", but the final "es" is not pronounced") (August 29, 1780 - January 14, 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he thought of himself as a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was his portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.

Maria Anna Angelika/Angelica Katharina Kauffmann was a Swiss painter. She was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland, but grew up in Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg/Austria. Her father, Johann Josef Kauffmann, was a poor man and mediocre painter, but apparently very successful in teaching his precocious daughter. She rapidly acquired several languages, read incessantly, and showed marked talents as a musician.

Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well-known as a portrait painter. According to "Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat", Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter. He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen.

Andrea Appiani, was an Italian neoclassical painter. He was born at Milan. He had been intended to follow his father's career in medicine but instead entered the private academy of the painter Carlo Maria Giudici (1723–1804). He received instruction in drawing, copying mainly from sculpture and prints. He then joined the class of the fresco painter Antonio de' Giorgi, which was held at the Ambrosiana picture gallery in Milan.

Rembrandt Peale (22 February, 1778 - 3 October, 1860) was a United States Neoclassical painter. Peale was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the second son of Charles Willson Peale, also a well known professional artist. He spent most of his career in Philadelphia. Peale is best known for his portraits of such prominent Americans as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Rembrandt Peale was born on George Washington's birthday in the middle of the American Revolution.

John Vanderlyn (October 18, 1776 - September 23, 1852) was a U.S. neoclassicist painter, was born at Kingston, New York. He was employed by a print-seller in New York, and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson (1765-1835), a Scotsman who was afterwards one of the directors of the American Academy. He went to Philadelphia, where he spent time in the studio of Gilbert Stuart and copied some of Stuart's portraits, including one of Aaron Burr, …

François-André Vincent was a French neoclassical painter. He was the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien. He travelled to Rome, where he won the "Prix de Rome" in 1768. From 1771 to 1775 he studied there at the "Académie de France". In 1790 Vincent was appointed master of drawings to Louis XVI of France, and in 1792 he became a professor at the "Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture" in Paris.

Anselm Feuerbach (September 12, 1829 - January 4, 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. According to the 1911 Britannica, <blockquote&gt;He was the first to realize the danger arising from contempt of technique, that mastery of craftsmanship was needed to express even the loftiest ideas, and that an ill-drawn coloured cartoon can never be the supreme achievement in art.

Antonio Zucchi (1726 - 1795) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period. Born in Venice and died in Rome. He married the painter Angelica Kauffmann, who late in life, moved with him to Rome. He produced a number of etchings of "capriccio" and "veduta" of classical buildings or ruins. He worked with Robert Adam in the decoration of palaces in England. In England, he was elected as an associate to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1770.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (March 13, 1781 - October 9, 1841) was a German architect and painter. Schinkel was the most prominent architect of neoclassicism in Prussia. Born in Neuruppin (Brandenburg), he lost his father at the age of six in Neuruppin's disastrous fire. He became a student of Friedrich Gilly (1772-1800) (the two became close friends) and his father, David Gilly, in Berlin. After returning to Berlin from his first trip to Italy in 1805, …

Leo von Klenze was a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, Leo von Klenze was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek revival style. Von Klenze studied architecture in Berlin and Paris. Between 1808 and 1813 he was a court architect of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia.

Guillaume-Joseph Roques (1757-1847) was a French neoclassical and romantic painter. He taught at the Royal Academy of Arts in Toulouse where Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was among his pupils. He was a prolific artist and one of the most notable exponents of neoclassicism outside of the centre of the movement in Paris, though later in life he tended towards romanticism.

François-Edouard Picot was a French historic painter during the July Monarchy.

Pierre Subleyras (November 25 1699 - May 28, 1749) was a French painter, active during the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic period, mainly in Italy Subleyras was born in Saint Gilles du Gard, France. He left France in 1728, having carried off the French Academy's grand prix, which carried scholarship for study in Rome. In Rome, he painted for the Elector of Saxony, Frederick Christian, a "Christ's Visit to the House of Simon the Pharisee", …

Francisco Vieira de Matos, who choose the artistic name of Vieira Portuense (Porto, 13 May 1765 - Funchal, 2 May 1805) was a Portuguese painter, one of the introducers of Neoclassicism in Portuguese painting. He was, in the neoclassical style, one of the two great Portuguese painters of his generation, with Domingos Sequeira. He first studyed in Lisbon, later moving to Rome. He traveled through Italy, Germany, Austria and England, …

Giuseppe Bossi (August 11, 1777 - 15 November 1815) was an Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art. He ranks among the foremost figures of Neoclassical culture in Lombardy, along with Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Andrea Appiani or Manzoni He was born in the village of Busto Arsizio, near Milan. He was educated at the college of Monza; and his early fondness for drawing was fostered by the director of the college.

Domenico Corvi (1721 - 1803) was a prominent Italian painter at the close of the 18th century, active in an early Neoclassic style in Rome and surrounding sites. Born in Viterbo and died in Rome. After some early works in Viterbo and Palestrina, Corvi moved on to Rome to work under Francesco Mancini. He worked in a Roman mileu where late-Rococo of Pompeo Batoni and the incipient Neoclassicism of Anton Raphael Mengs coexisted, and fashioned a style in between.

Gheorghe Tattarescu (October 1818 - October 24 1894) was a Moldavian-born Romanian painter and a pioneer of neoclassicism in his country's modern painting.

Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov ; July 28 (July 16 [OS]), 1806 - July 15 (July 3 [OS]), 1858) was a Russian painter who adhered to the waning tradition of Neoclassicism but found little sympathy with his contemporaries. Ivanov studied together Karl Briullov at the Imperial Academy of Arts under his father, Andrey A. Ivanov. He spent most of his life in Rome where he befriended Gogol and succumbed to the influence of the Nazarenes. He has been called the master of one work, …

Dorothy Tennant (22 March, 1855 - 5 October, 1926), was a Victorian neoclassicist painter born in London. In 1890, she married the African explorer Henry Morton Stanley, and became known as Lady Stanley. She edited her husband's autobiography, reportedly removing any references to other women in Stanley's life. After Stanley's death, she married Henry Curtis in 1907.

Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin. (b. Bordeaux, Gironde, France on March 31, 1790 - d. Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, March 16, 1870), was a French artist and painter. Although he initiated a career in the military by indication of his father, at the age of eighteen Monvoisin fully dedicated himself to painting. He moved from Burgundy to Paris, and was employed at the workshop of Pierre Guérin, …

Carlo Giuseppe Ratti was an Italian art biographer and painter of the late-Baroque period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Agostino Ratti, a pupil of Savona. Born in Genoa, he moved to Rome where he befriened Anton Raphael Mengs and Pompeo Batoni. He added to Rafaello Soprani’s history of Genoese painters: "Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti genovesi" first published in 1769 in Genoa.

Domingos António de Sequeira, was a Portuguese painter. He was born in Belém, Lisbon, from a modest family. He latter changed his family name, Espírito Santo, for the more aristocratic, Sequeira. He studied art first at the academy of Lisbon, before moving to Rome, were he was Antonio Cavallucci`s pupil. By the age of thirteen he had evinced such marked talent that F. de Setubal employed him as assistant in his work for the João Ferreiras Palace.

Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford (1703 - 1778), was an Italian painter active mostly in Tuscany in an early Neoclassic style.

Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans was an American neoclassical portrait painter living in New Orleans in the 1840s and 1850s. Born in Belgium, Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans was trained in the French neoclassical tradition of portraiture. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1831 to 1837.

Antonio Cavalucci (1752 - 1795) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, active mainly in Rome. He was born in Sermoneta and died in Rome.