- Don Bachardy
Don Jess Bachardy (born May 18, 1934), is a noted portrait artist. He currently resides in Santa Monica, California. - Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792) was the most important and influential of 18th century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769. - John Howard Sanden
John Howard Sanden (born 1935 in Austin, Texas) is an American portrait artist. He was the Art Director for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association c.a. 1955-1970. He founded the Portrait Institute. Sanden was an instructor at The Art Students League of New York. In 2007, he had studios in Carnegie Hall, New York Cityand Ridgefield, Connecticut. - Richard Whitney
Richard Whitney (1946) is an American painter born in New Hampshire. Whitney is a portrait and landscape painter; his paintings currently hang in over 650 fine art collections worldwide. - Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, commonly referred to as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. He lived in Italy for a year and a half from 1629 to 1631 with the purpose of traveling and studying works of art. In 1649 he traveled to Italy again. - Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 - 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. - Chuck Close
Chuck Close (born Charles Thomas Close July 5, 1940, Monroe, Wisconsin) is an American photorealistic painter and photographer. - Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings See Van Dyke for other uses of all spellings), (22 March 1599 - 9 December 1641) was a Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. - John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley (circa July 3 1738 - September 9 1815) was a Boston-born American artist of the colonial period, famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial New England, particularly men and women of the middle class. His portraits were innovative in that they tended to portray their subjects with artifacts that were indicative of their lives. - Robert Henri
Robert Henri (June 25, 1865 - July 12, 1929) was an American painter notable for his teaching and leadership of the Ashcan School movement in art. - Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence (April 13, 1769 - January 7, 1830), was a notable English painter, mostly of portraits. He was born in Bristol. His father was an innkeeper, first at Bristol and afterwards at Devizes, and at the age of six Thomas was already being shown off to the guests of the Bear as an infant prodigy who could sketch their likenesses and declaim speeches from Milton. In 1779 the elder Lawrence had to leave Devizes, … - Thomas Sully
Thomas Sully (June 19, 1783 - November 5, 1872) was a well-known American (English-born) painter, mostly of portraits. - Alice Neel
Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 - October 13, 1984) was an American portrait painter. Her paintings are notable for their expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. - George Romney
George Romney (December 26, 1734 - November 15, 1802) was a noted English portrait painter. He was born on Boxing Day 1734 in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, and apprenticed to his father as a cabinet-maker. In 1755 he went to Kendal to learn painting from a Cumberland artist by the name of Christopher Steele, and within two years was becoming well-known as a portraitist. He fell ill during his apprenticeship and was nursed back to health by Mary Abbott, … - Henry Raeburn
Sir Henry Raeburn (4 March, 1756 - 8 July, 1823) was a Scottish portrait-painter. He was born at Stockbridge, a suburb of Edinburgh, the son of a manufacturer. Orphaned, he was placed in Heriot's Hospital, where he received an education, and at the age of fifteen was apprenticed to a goldsmith. Here he had some opportunity to practise a kind of art; various pieces of jewellery, mourning rings and the like, adorned with minute drawings on ivory by his hand, still exist. - John Russell
John Russell was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques. Born in Guildford, Surrey, he trained under the tutelage of Francis Cotes RA, one of the pioneers of English pastel painting, and – like Cotes – became an admirer of the pastel drawings of Rosalba Carriera. Russell set up his own studio in 1767. Although nominally based in London, Russell travelled extensively around Britain, … - Giovanni Boldini
Giovanni Boldini (December 31, 1842 - July 11, 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter, belonging to the Parisian school. According to a 1933 article in "Time" magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting. Boldini was born in Ferrara, the son of a painter of religious subjects, and went to Florence in 1862 to study painting, meeting there the realist painters known as the Macchiaioli. - Rembrandt Peale
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. - Augustus John
Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (January 4, 1878 - October 31, 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in England. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse. - Carolus-Duran
Carolus-Duran was the name adopted by the French painter Charles Auguste Émile Durand, who was born at Lille. He studied at the Lille Academy and then at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and in 1861 to Italy and Spain for further study, especially devoting himself to the pictures of Velázquez. His subject picture "Murdered," or "The Assassination" (1866), was one of his first successes, and is now in the Lille museum, … - Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux was an American society portraitist, in the nature of John Singer Sargent. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received the bulk of her art training at the Académie Julian in Paris. During her time in Paris she studied under painters Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. In 1890 she exhibited at the Paris Exposition. Returning to Philadelphia, Miss Beaux obtained in 1893 the gold medal of the Philadelphia Art Club, … - Gwen John
Gwen John (June 22, 1876 - September 18, 1939) was a Welsh artist. - Valentin Serov
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (January 191865 - December 51911) was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era. - Pietro Annigoni
Pietro Annigoni (June 7, 1910 - October 28, 1988) was an Italian portrait and fresco painter. Born in Milan, Annigoni is most famous for his 1954 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II (Fishmongers' Company, London). Although he gained acclaim as a painter of royalty, Annigoni chose his subjects from a cross section of humanity. His work bore the influence of Italian Renaissance portraiture, … - Susanna Blunt
Susanna Blunt is a Canadian portrait artist who designed the most recent portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the current Canadian coinage, which began in 2003. She was born in Harbin, China, the daughter of an English banker. Blunt started her studies at the Banff School of Fine Arts as a young teenager. After finishing high school she had a year of private lessons in Victoria, British Columbia. She moved to London, England and did four years of art school, … - Henry Fuseli
Henry Fuseli (February 7, 1741 - April 16, 1825) was a British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin. - Raphael
Raphael Sanzio or Raffaello was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings. He was also called Raffaello Sanzio, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello da Urbino or Rafael Sanzio da Urbino. - Mark Stephen Meadows
Mark Stephen Meadows is a visual artist, writer, and engineer. He develops interactive systems, games, artificial emotion software, and other interactive content. He is also a painter, and considers himself a portrait artist at his heart. He has written a book concerning games entitled, "Pause & Effect; The Art of Interactive Narrative." He currently resides in Los Angeles, California. - Alexander Cooper
Alexander Cooper (before 1609 - 1660) was an English miniature painter. He was the elder brother of Samuel Cooper. The date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been born in London. He came to Sweden in 1646, and the Swedish documents declare that he was Jewish, and that his full name was Abraham Alexander Cooper. He had previously been residing in the United Provinces, … - Chester Harding
Chester Harding (September 1, 1792 - April 1, 1866), American portrait painter, was born at Conway, Massachusetts. Brought up in the wilderness of New York state, Harding, as a lad of splendid physique, standing over 6 feet 3 inches, marched as a drummer with the militia to the St Lawrence in 1813. He became subsequently chairmaker, peddler, inn-keeper, and house-painter, painting signs in Pittsburg, Pa., and eventually going on the road, self-taught, … - Nicholas Hilliard
Nicholas Hilliard (c.1547 - bur.January 7, 1619), the first true English miniature painter born in England, is said to have been the son of Richard Hilliard (1519-1594) of Exeter, Devon, England high sheriff of the city and county in 1560, and a daughter of John Wall, goldsmith, of London, by the name of Laurence Wall, although Laurence is a man's name and the name of one of Nicholas' sons, Laurence Hilliard (1582-1648), who was also a "limner." His wife, … - Myfanwy Pavelic
Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic (born 27 April 1916, died 7 May 2007) was a Canadian portrait artist. She was one of few Canadian artists who had their work shown at the National Portrait Gallery, where her portrait of Yehudi Menuhin <sup></sup> was displayed. In 1984, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. In 2001, she was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia. - John Collier
John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI (January 27, 1850-April 11,1934) was a British writer and painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. - Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 - July 11 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books -- that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject. - William Rothenstein
Sir William Rothenstein, (January 29 1872 - February 14 1945), was an English painter, draughtsman and writer on art. He was born in Bradford and studied at the Slade School of Art (his teachers including Alphonse Legros) and in Paris, where he met and was encouraged by Rex Whistler and Edgar Degas. He became known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and was an official war artist in both World War I and World War II. - Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay (October 13, 1713 - August 10, 1784), was a Scottish portrait-painter. - Lemuel Francis Abbott
Lemuel Francis Abbot (c. 1760-5 December 1802) was an English portrait painter, famous for his portrait of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (currently hanging in the Terracotta Room of number 10 Downing Street) and for those of other naval officers and literary figures of the 18th century. Born in Leicestershire in 1760 or 1761, to the clergyman Lemuel Abbott and his wife Mary, he became in 1775 a pupil of Francis Hayman and lived in London. - Joseph Wright Of Derby
Joseph Wright (September 3, 1734 - August 29, 1797), styled Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter - he has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the industrial revolution." - Ben Long
Ben Long is an American painter, and the grandson of noted artist McKendree Robbins Long. Reared in a family of artists, writers, professors, and university presidents, Long was as precocious in his artistic ability as he was eager to apply it. At 18, Long followed in his father's footsteps to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in Creative Writing under the guidance of his friend and advisor, Reynolds Price. - John Hoppner
John Hoppner (April 4?, 1758 - January 23, 1810), English portrait-painter, was born in Whitechapel. His father was of German extraction, and his mother was one of the German attendants at the royal palace. Hoppner was consequently brought early under the notice and received the patronage of George III, whose regard for him gave rise to unfounded scandal. As a boy he was a chorister at the royal chapel, but showing strong inclination for art, …
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