- Arnold Newman
Arnold Abner Newman was an American photographer of a jewish decent, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images. - Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke (born 1970 in Fenyang, China) is a Chinese film director. He has been often grouped with other "Sixth Generation" directors such as Wang Xiaoshuai and Lou Ye. Jia first appeared on the Chinese film scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s with a string of internationally acclaimed independent features including 2000's "Platform" (站台, "Zhantai"), "Unknown Pleasures" (任逍遙, "Ren xiao yao"), and "The World". - Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (October 3, 1867 - January 23, 1947) was a French painter and printmaker. - Martin Johnson Heade
Martin Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819-September 4, 1904) was a prolific American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of tropical birds, and still lifes. His painting style and subject matter, while derived from the romanticism of the time, is regarded by art historians as a significant departure from that of his peers. - Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter who specialized in still life. - Samuel Peploe
Samuel John Peploe was a Scottish Post - Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of 4 painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists. Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy schools from 1893 to 1894, and then at the Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi in Paris, where he shared a room with Robert Brough. He visited Holland in 1895, returning with reproductions of work by Rembrandt and Frans Hals. - Mikael Åkerfeldt
Mikael Åkerfeldt (born April 17, 1974, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish musician, best known as the current lead vocalist, guitarist, composer, and lyricist for the progressive death metal band Opeth. Åkerfeldt is known for his progressive rock-influenced songwriting style, and his frequent use of both clean and growled vocals. Although Åkerfeldt sings in the death grunt style, his vocals are considered to be more intelligible than many vocalists of the style. - Pieter Claesz
Pieter Claesz (ca. 1597-1660) was a Dutch still life painter, born in Burgsteinfurt, Westphalia (now Germany) and active in Haarlem, where he settled in 1617. He and Willem Claeszoon Heda, who also worked in Haarlem, were the most important exponents of the "ontbijt" or breakfast piece. They painted with subdued, virtually monochromatic palettes, the subtle handling of light and texture being the prime means of expression. - Martin Lopez
Martin Lopez (born in Sweden on May 20, 1978) is a drummer, known best for his nine years with the Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth. Lopez was born in Sweden and later moved to Uruguay, then back to Sweden. He joined Opeth in 1998, after leaving the melodic death metal band Amon Amarth. He can be heard on the album "Once Sent From the Golden Hall". With Opeth, he recorded the albums "My Arms, Your Hearse", "Still Life", … - Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans (born August 15, 1968) is a German photographer. Born in Remscheid in Germany, Tillmans lived and worked in Hamburg at the end of the 1980s before moving to England. He studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art from 1990 to 1992. Since 1996 he has lived and worked in London. Since the mid-1980s, Wolfgang Tillmans has reinterpreted representational genres from portraiture to still life to landscape through the medium of photography. - Martin Mendez
Martin Mendez (born April 6, 1978 in Uruguay), is the bass guitar player for the progressive death metal band Opeth. He was also a member of several other bands, some with friend and former Opeth drummer Martin Lopez, including Fifth to Infinity, Proxima, Vinterkrig and Requiem Aeternam. Originally, the other members of Opeth were hesitant about adding Mendez to the lineup, because they feared the band would be divided into two camps, … - James Peale
James Peale was an American painter, best known for his miniature and still life paintings, and a younger brother of noted painter Charles Willson Peale. Peale was born in Chestertown, Maryland, the second child, after Charles, of Charles Peale (1709–1750) and Margaret Triggs (1709–1791). His father died when he was an infant, and the family moved to Annapolis. In 1762 he began to serve apprenticeships there, first in a saddlery and later in a cabinetmaking shop. - Frans Snyders
Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657), or Snijders, was a Flemish painter of animals and still life. Snyders was born and died at Antwerp. He is recorded as a student of Pieter Brueghel the Younger in 1593, and subsequently received instruction from Hendrick van Balen, the first master of Van Dyck. He was a friend of Van Dyck who painted Snyders and his wife more than once (Frick Collection, Kassel etc). He became a master of the Antwerp painters guild in 1602. - Jan van Huysum
Jan van Huysum (April 15, 1682, Amsterdam - February 8, 1749, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter. He was the son of Justus van Huysum, who is said to have been expeditious in decorating doorways, screens and vases. A picture by Justus is preserved in the gallery of Brunswick, representing "Orpheus and the Beasts in a wooded landscape," and here we have some explanation of his son's fondness for landscapes of a conventional and Arcadian kind; for Jan van Huysum, … - William Harnett
William Michael Harnett (August 10, 1848 - October 29, 1892) was an Irish-American painter who practiced a trompe l'oeil (literally, "fool the eye") style of realistic painting. His still lifes of ordinary objects, arranged on a ledge or hanging from a nail, are painted in such a way that the painting can be mistaken for the objects themselves. Harnett was born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland during the time of the potato famine. - Severin Roesen
Severin Roesen (ca. 1815-1872) is a painter known for his still lifes of flowers and fruit. Born in Cologne, in Germany, he immigrated to the United States in 1848. Severin Roesen (born Germany, 1815/16-after 1872) Fruit and Wine Glass, ca. 1860-65 His studio was much frequented by his friends, who would sit all day with this genial, well read and generous companion, smoking his pipes and drinking his beer, and he was seldom without this beverage.. - Elizabeth Blackadder
Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, DBE, RA (born 1931) is a Scottish painter and printmaker. She is the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy. Born in Falkirk, she studied at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art, where she lectured from 1962 until her retirement in 1986. Her early works are principally landscapes, influenced by her visits to Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia. - Willem Kalf
Willem Kalf was a Dutch painter who specialized in still lifes. Later in his life, Kalf became an art dealer and appraiser. - Emil Carlsen
Soren Emil Carlsen was an American painter associated with the Cos Cob Art Colony. Carlsen painted primarily landscapes and still lifes. His fastidiously painted still lifes are influenced by Chardin and often depict copper pans, game, or flowers. He was an art teacher for over fifty years; his students included James Swinnerton. - Donald Sultan
Donald Sultan (born 1951 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American artist, known for large-scale still life paintings executed with bold contrasts of bright color and deep black forms, tight, nearly abstract compositions, and unorthodox media. After earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Masters from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sultan moved to New York City in 1975 to pursue his career. - Ambrosius Bosschaert
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (Antwerp, January 18 1573-The Hague, 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age. He started his career in Antwerp, but spend most of it in Middelburg (1593-1613), where he became dean of the painters' guild. He later worked in Amsterdam (1614), Bergen op Zoom (1615-1616), Utrecht (1616-1619), and Breda (1619). He specialised in painting still lifes with flowers. - Judith Leyster
Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster was a Dutch painter who worked in a variety of dimensions, including genre subjects, portraits and still lifes. - Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Jean-Baptiste Oudry was a French Rococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his images of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. Oudry was the son of Jacques Oudry, a painter and art dealer in Paris, and of his wife Nicole Papillon, who belonged to the family of the engraver Jean-Baptist-Michel Papillon. His father was a director of the "Académie de St-Luc" art school, which Oudry joined. - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life. - Margaret Olley
Margaret Olley AC (born 24 June,1923 in Lismore, New South Wales) is an Australian painter. Her work concentrates on the still life. In 1997 a major retrospective of her work was organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has held more than 60 solo exhibitions. She received the inaugural Mosman Art Prize in 1947. She was the subject of William Dobell's Archibald Prize-winning painting in 1948. On June 12, 2006 in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, … - John F. Peto
John Frederick Peto (May 21 1854 - November 23 1907) was an American trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") painter who was long forgotten until his paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe l'oeil artist William Harnett. Although Peto and the slightly older Harnett knew each other and painted similar subjects, their careers followed different paths. Peto lived in the resort town of Island Heights, New Jersey from 1889 on, where he worked in obscurity, … - Georg Flegel
Georg Flegel (1566 - 1638) was a German painter, best known for his still life works. Flegel was born in Olomouc, Moravia. Around 1580 he moved to Vienna, where he became the assistant to Lucas van Valckenborch I, a painter and draughtsman. Flegel and his employer later moved to Frankfurt, which at the time was an important art-dealing city. As an assistant, he inserted items such as fruit, flowers, and table utensils into Valckenborch's works. - Evaristo Baschenis
Evaristo Baschenis (December 4 1607- March 151677) was an Italian Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly around his native city of Bergamo. He was born to a family of artists. He is best known for "still lifes", most commonly of musical instruments. This could explain his friendship with a family with notable violin makers from Cremona. "Still-life" depictiona were uncommon as a thematic among Italian painters prior to the 17th century. - William Davis
William Davis (1812-1873) was a British artist, part of a group of Liverpool based artists who were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style of painting. He was born in Dublin, received his artistic education there and begun his career as a portrait painter. He moved to Liverpool in 1842 and began to exhibit in the Liverpool Academy. In 1851 he started to exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Originally painting still lives in 1853 he began producing landscapes. - Edwin Dickinson
Edwin Dickinson was an American painter and draftsman known for his psychologically charged self-portraits and landscapes. His art, always grounded in realism, shows connections to symbolism and surrealism. Dickinson was born and raised in upstate New York, in the Finger Lakes area; His family moved to Buffalo in 1897. Dickinson had youthful ambitions for a career in the Navy, … - 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. - Wolfgang Zelmer
Wolfgang Zelmer (born April 6 1948 in Munich, Germany) is a German painter and best known for his modern mystical still life paintings and etchings. - Charles Ethan Porter
Charles Ethan Porter (c. 1847 - March 6 1923), was an African American still life painter. Porter was born in or about 1847 in Hartford, Connecticut. His family moved to the nearby village of Rockville (part of Vernon, Connecticut) by the early 1850s. In the 1870s, his father built a house there. He graduated from the local high school in 1865. - Euan Uglow
Euan Uglow (March 10, 1932 - August 31, 2000) was an English figurative painter. Uglow was born in London and studied at Camberwell College of Arts from 1948 to 1950 under William Coldstream, who influenced Uglow greatly. When Coldstream left to teach at the Slade School of Art, University College, London (London University) in 1951, Uglow transferred there as well. Starting in 1961, he himself was to teach part-time at the Slade School, continuing for many years. - André Lhote
André Lhote was a French sculptor and painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. He was also very active and influential as a teacher and writer on art. Lhote was born in Bordeaux and learnt wood carving and sculpture from the age of 12 when his father apprenticed him to a local furniture maker to be trained as a sculptor in wood. In 1898 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux and studied decorative sculpture until 1904. - Juan Sánchez Cotán
Juan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter, a pioneer of realism in Spain. His still lifes, painted in an austere style, are considered his outstanding contribution to the history of art. - Luigi Lucioni
Luigi Lucioni (November 4, 1900 - July 22, 1988) was an Italian-born American painter. He lived and worked in New York City, but also spent time working in Vermont. His still lifes, landscapes, and portraits, were known for their realism, precisely drawn forms and smooth paint surface. In 1915 he won a competition which allowed him to attend Cooper Union. - Juan van der Hamen
Juan van der Hamen y (Gómez de) León was a Spanish painter, a master of the still life genre. During his lifetime, he known for his versatility. He painted, allegories, landscapes, flower paintings, and large-scale works for churches and convents. However,today he is remembered mostly for his still lifes. He established the popularity of the new genre of still life in Madrid in the 1620s. - Mary Pratt
Mary Frances Pratt (born 15 March 1935 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian painter specializing in still life paintings. She attended Mount Allison University, graduating in 1961. She met her future husband, the artist Christopher Pratt, at Mount Allison. After the marriage, she moved with him to Newfoundland. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Memorial University Art Gallery in St. John's in 1967. In 1996, she was named Companion of the Order of Canada. - Charles Jones
Charles Harry Jones (1866- November 15 1959) was a gardener and photographer, noted for his still lifes of fruit and vegetables. Born in Wolverhampton, Charles Jones became a gardener working on a number of private estates in England from the 1890s. His gardening was noted for the quality of his flowerbeds and cultivation of fruits and vegetables. As a photographer, Jones was noted for his documentation of the fruits of his gardening labours.
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