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18th & 19th Century Artists (1750-1880)

If you are a student of Art or Art History, here is a more detailed list of artists you should know from this period.

NameBirthDeathNationalityMovement(s)Primary MediumRepresentative Works
Abildgaard, Nicolai
 
17431809DanishNeoclassicalPaintingThe Wounded Philoctetes
Jupiter Weighs the Fate of Mankind
Buberl, Caspar18341899AmericanGothic RevivalSculptureCivil War Monuments (esp. Gettysburg)
Pension Building frieze, Washington, D.C.
Courbet, Gustave
 ND553 .C9
18191877FrenchRealismPainting
Sculpture
The Stonebreakers
Burial at Ornans
David, Jacques-Louis
 ND553 .D25
17481825FrenchNeoclassicalPaintingThe Death of Marat
Death of Socrates
Degas, Edgar
 ND553. D3
18341917FrenchImpressionismPainting
Sculpture
A Cotton Office in New Orleans
The Bellelli Family
Delacroix, Eugène
 ND553 .D33
17981863FrenchRomanticismPaintingJuly 28: Liberty Leading the People
The Death of Sardanapalus
Falconet, Étienne Maurice17161791FrenchRococoSculptureThe Bronze Horseman
Pygmalion and Galatea
Flaxman, John17551826BritishNeoclassicalSculpture
Engraving
St. Michael Overcoming Satan
The Iliad & The Odyssey (illustrations)
Friedrich, Caspar David
 ND588 .F75
17741840GermanRomanticismPaintingChalk Cliffs on Rügen
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
The Stages of Life
Géricault, Théodore
 ND553 .G45
17911824FrenchRomanticismPainting
Lithography
The Raft of the Medusa
Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy
Goya, Francisco
 ND813 .G7
17461828SpanishRomanticismPainting
Printmaking
The Third of May 1808
King Charles IV of Spain and his Family
The Naked Maja
Healy, George Peter Alexander
ND237 .H4
18131894AmericanRealismPaintingAbraham Lincoln
The Peacemakers
Homer, Winslow
 ND237 .H7
18361910AmericanRealismPainting
Wood Engraving
Prisoners from the Front
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
 ND553 .I5
17801867FrenchNeoclassicalPaintingThe Turkish Bath
Jupiter and Thetis
Le Brun, Élisabeth Vigée17551842FrenchRococo
Neoclassical
PaintingMarie Antoinette
Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
Manet, Édouard
 ND553 .M3
18321883FrenchImpressionism
Realism
PaintingA Bar at the Folies-Bergère
The Luncheon on the Grass
Monet, Claude
 ND553 .M7
18401926FrenchImpressionismPaintingWater Lilies
Impression, Sunrise
Haystacks
Orlovsky, Boris17961837RussianNeoclassicalSculptureMikhail Kutuzov
Satyr and Bacchante
Pissaro, Camille
 ND553 .P55
18301903Danish-FrenchImpressionismPaintingTwo Women Chatting By the Sea
Le chemin
Turner, Joseph M.W.
 ND497 .T8
17751851EnglishRomanticismPaintingDutch Boats in a Gale
The Fighting Temeraire
Rain, Steam, and Speed
van Gogh, Vincent
 ND653 .G7
18531890DutchPost-impressionismPaintingStarry Night
Cafe Terrace at Night
Sunflowers