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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.
Name | Birth | Death | Nationality | Movement(s) | Primary Medium | Representative Works |
Courbet, Gustave ND553 .C9 | 1819 | 1877 | French | Realism | Painting Sculpture | The Stonebreakers Burial at Ornans |
David, Jacques-Louis ND553 .D25 | 1748 | 1825 | French | Neoclassical | Painting | The Death of Marat Death of Socrates |
Degas, Edgar ND553. D3 | 1834 | 1917 | French | Impressionism | Painting Sculpture | A Cotton Office in New Orleans The Bellelli Family |
Delacroix, Eugène ND553 .D33 | 1798 | 1863 | French | Romanticism | Painting | July 28: Liberty Leading the People The Death of Sardanapalus |
Goya, Francisco ND813 .G7 | 1746 | 1828 | Spanish | Romanticism | Painting Printmaking | The Third of May 1808 King Charles IV of Spain and his Family The Naked Maja |
Homer, Winslow ND237 .H7 | 1836 | 1910 | American | Realism | Painting Wood Engraving | Prisoners from the Front Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) |
Manet, Édouard ND553 .M3 | 1832 | 1883 | French | Impressionism Realism | Painting | A Bar at the Folies-Bergère The Luncheon on the Grass |
Monet, Claude ND553 .M7 | 1840 | 1926 | French | Impressionism | Painting | Water Lilies Impression, Sunrise Haystacks |
Pissaro, Camille ND553 .P55 | 1830 | 1903 | Danish-French | Impressionism | Painting | Two Women Chatting By the Sea Le chemin |
Turner, Joseph M.W. ND497 .T8 | 1775 | 1851 | English | Romanticism | Painting | Dutch Boats in a Gale The Fighting Temeraire Rain, Steam, and Speed |
van Gogh, Vincent ND653 .G7 | 1853 | 1890 | Dutch | Post-impressionism | Painting | Starry Night Cafe Terrace at Night Sunflowers |