- Claude Monet
Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting "Impression, Sunrise". - Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, … - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841-December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau". - Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 - June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt (pronounced ca-SAHT) often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. - Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne. - Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley (October 30, 1839 - January 29, 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who lived and worked in France. - Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris. Sponsored by the government, and judged by academicians, the Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris. Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, … - Childe Hassam
Frederick Childe Hassam (b. October 17 1859, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts - d. August 27 1935, East Hampton, New York) was an American Impressionist painter. - Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte (August 19, 1848 - February 21, 1894), was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, stamp collector, and yacht engineer. - William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. - Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks "The Luncheon on the Grass" and "Olympia" engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism—today these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art. - J. Alden Weir
Julian Alden Weir was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut. Weir was also one of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a stylistically-unified group. Weir was born and raised in West Point, New York, the son of Robert Walter Weir, a professor of drawing. - Walter Sickert
Walter Richard Sickert (May 31, 1860 in Munich, Germany - January 22, 1942 in Bath, England) was an English Impressionist painter. Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. - Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann (July 20 1847 in Berlin - February 8 1935) was a German painter and printmaker in etching and lithography. The son of a Jewish businessman from Berlin, Liebermann first studied law and philosophy, but later studied painting and drawing in Weimar in 1869, in Paris in 1872 and in Holland during 1876-77. Although residing and working for some time in Munich, he finally returned to Berlin in 1884 and worked there for the rest of his life. - Frederick Carl Frieseke
Frederick Carl Frieseke was an American Impressionist painter. He was born in Owosso, Michigan and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Académie Julian in Paris. Frieseke and his family resided for fourteen years in Giverny, which was also home to Monet. He had a great influence on the Americans at the colony there, many of whom shared his Midwestern American background. - Frédéric Bazille
Jean Frédéric Bazille was a French Impressionist painter best known for his depiction of figures. Born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, into a middle-class Protestant family, Bazille became interested in painting after seeing some works of Eugène Delacroix. His family agreed to let him study painting, but only if he also studied medicine. Bazille began studying medicine in 1859. He moved to Paris in 1862 to continue his studies. - Theodore Robinson
Theodore Robinson (July 3,1852 - April 2,1896) was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet. Several of his works are considered masterpieces of American Impressionism. - Eugène Boudin
Eugène Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire, and Corot who, gazing at his pictures, said to him, "You are the master of the sky. - Armand Guillaumin
Armand Guillaumin, was a French impressionist painter and lithographer. Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, France, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons. He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse in 1861. There, he met Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro with whom maintained lifelong friendships. While he never achieved the stature of these two, … - John Henry Twachtman
John Henry Twachtman (August 4 1853 - August 8 1902) was an American painter best-known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, … - Lilla Cabot Perry
Lilla Cabot Perry, (b. January 13 1848, Boston, Massachusetts - d. February 28 1933, Hancock, New Hampshire), was one of the first American artists to embrace impressionism during the late 19th century. Born to the Boston Brahmin Cabot family, socialite Lilla Cabot married Thomas Sargeant Perry, a professor of literature, with whom she had three daughters. - Lovis Corinth
Lovis Corinth (July 21 1858-July 17 1925) was a German painter and printmaker whose mature work realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. - Emily Carr
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer. She was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and moved to San Francisco in 1890 to study art after the death of her parents. In 1899 she travelled to England to deepen her studies, where she spent time at the Westminster School of Art in London and at various studio schools in Cornwall, Bushey, Hertfordshire, San Francisco, and elsewhere. - Valentin Serov
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (January 191865 - December 51911) was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era. - Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay was a French artist who used orphism, similar to abstraction and cubism in his work. Delaunay concentrated on orphism, while his later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour, and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone. While he was a child, Delaunay's parents divorced, and he was raised by his uncle, in La Ronchère (near Bourges). He took up painting at an early age, and by 1903, … - Frank Weston Benson
Frank Weston Benson was an American Impressionist artist. Benson was a member of the Ten American Painters. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1879, he began study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later at the Académie Julian in Paris. Upon return to America, he would become an instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His paintings often depict his daughters outdoors at Benson's summer home on the island of North Haven, Maine. - Guy Rose
Guy Rose (3 March, 1867-17 November, 1925) was an American Impressionist painter who is recognized as one of California's top impressionist painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Guy Orlando Rose was born March 3, 1867 in San Gabriel, California. He was the seventh child of Leonard John Rose and Amanda Jones Rose. His father was a prominent California senator. - Willard Metcalf
Willard Leroy Metcalf was an American artist. Born at Lowell, Massachusetts, he was a pupil of the Massachusetts Normal Art School, of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and of the Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters who in 1897 seceded from the Society of American Artists. For some years he was an instructor in the Womans Art School, … - Konstantin Korovin
Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. - Ramon Pichot
Ramon Pichot Gironès was a Spanish artist. He painted in an impressionist style. He was a good friend of Pablo Picasso and an early mentor to young Salvador Dalí. Salvador Dalí met Ramon Pichot Gironès in Cadaqués, Spain. Ramon also made many trips to France. Once in a while Salvador Dalí and his family would go on a trip with Ramon Pichot and his family He married Germaine Pichot, a well known artist's model, in 1901. - Laura Muntz Lyall
Laura Muntz Lyall, June 18, 1860 - December 9, 1930, was a Canadian impressionist painter. Born Laura Adeline Muntz in Radford, Warwickshire, England, her family emigrated to Canada when she was a child to farm in the Muskoka District of Ontario. As a young woman, Muntz studied to teach school, but her interest in art led to her take lessons in painting technique from W.C. Forster of Hamilton, Ontario. - Daniel Garber
Daniel Garber (1880-1958) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware River. He also painted figurative interior works and excelled at etching. In addition to his painting career, Garber taught art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for over forty years. - Chafik Charobim
Chafik Charobim (born November 4, 1894 in Cairo, died 1975), is a well known impressionist and naturalist Egyptian artist who painted the "Peaceful and Tranquil Egypt of the last Century". He loved nature in any form and his paintings show a great love for the sea, the desert and the people of Egypt. He has left a legacy of over 186 paintings. - Francisco Oller
Francisco Manuel Oller Cestero (June 17, 1833 - May 17, 1917) was a Puerto Rican artist. Oller is considered to be the only Latin American painter to play a role in the development of Impressionism. - Edmund Charles Tarbell
Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 - August 1, 1938) was an American Impressionist painter. He was a member of the Ten American Painters. Tarbell was born at West Groton, Massachusetts, to a family that immigrated from England in 1647. His father, Edmund Whitney Tarbell, died in 1863 after contracting typhoid fever while serving in the American Civil War. His mother, Mary Sophia Fernald, thereupon remarried to David Frank Hartford and moved with him to Milwaukee, … - Lucy Bacon
Lucy Angeline Bacon was a Californian artist who studied in Paris under the famous Impressionist, Camille Pissarro (who was friends with Paul Cézanne), and was the only known California artist to have studied under any of the Great French Impressionists. Born in 1858 in Pitcairn, New York, Lucy Bacon attended art school at the Art Students League of New York and the National Academy of Design in New York City before leaving for France in 1892. - Nazmi Ziya Güran
Nazmi Ziya Güran was a Turkish impressionist painter. He was born in the Horhor neighborhood of Istanbul. He graduated in 1901 from the School of Political Science, where he had enrolled due to his father's opposition to his ambition to be an artist. With the death of his father in that same year, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts Istanbul, where he studied with Warnia and Valeri. - Władysław Podkowiński
Władysław Podkowiński was a Polish painter and illustrator. Podkowiński began his artistic training at Wojciech Gerson's drawing school, the Warsaw Academy of Arts, at which he studied from 1880-1884. After leaving the school, Podkowinski contributed to many of the leading art journals in Warsaw at the time. In 1885 he travelled, along with Jozef Pankiewicz, to the St. Petersburg Fine Arts Academy where he studied from 1885-1886. - Nicolae Grigorescu
Nicolae Grigorescu (May 15, 1838-July 21, 1907) was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting. - Robert Reid
Robert Lewis Reid was an American impressionist painter and muralist. Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he was also later an instructor. In 1884 he moved to New York City, studying at the Art Students League, and in 1885 he went to Paris to study at the Académie Julian.
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