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

If you wish to be generally familiar with art history, here is a short list of artists you should know from this period.

NameBirthDeathNationalityMovement(s)Primary MediumRepresentative Works
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
Goya, Francisco
 ND813 .G7
17461828SpanishRomanticismPainting
Printmaking
The Third of May 1808
King Charles IV of Spain and his Family
The Naked Maja
Homer, Winslow
 ND237 .H7
18361910AmericanRealismPainting
Wood Engraving
Prisoners from the Front
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
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
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