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111 artists have a full guide: where to see the work for free, which print and which book to buy, and - where genuine work is realistically buyable - how to buy an original without being fooled.

Another 1,990 artists have a short entry generated from Wikidata, with museum links and their works. They are not listed here; search or filter the whole catalogue to find them.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Public domain1452-1519·Italian·painting
#high-renaissance #renaissance

Pablo Picasso

In copyright1881-1973·Spanish·painting
#post-impressionism #cubism #surrealism

Vincent van Gogh

Public domain1853-1890·Dutch·painting
#post-impressionism

Michelangelo

Public domain1475-1564·Italian·painting
#high-renaissance #renaissance-painting

Salvador Dalí

In copyright1904-1989·Spanish·painting
#surrealism

Rembrandt van Rijn

Public domain1606-1669·Dutch·painting
#dutch-golden-age #baroque

Frida Kahlo

Public domain1907-1954·Mexican·painting
#magic-realism #surrealism

Raphael

Public domain1483-1520·Italian·painting
#high-renaissance #italian-renaissance

Albrecht Durer

Public domain1471-1528·German·printmaking
#northern-renaissance

Francisco Goya

Public domain1746-1828·Spanish·painting
#romanticism

Henri Matisse

Public domain1869-1954·French·painting
#fauvism #impressionism #neo-impressionism #post-impressionism

Andy Warhol

In copyright1928-1987·American·painting
#pop-art

Katsushika Hokusai

Public domain1760-1849·Japanese·printmaking
#ukiyo-e

Peter Paul Rubens

Public domain1577-1640·Flemish·painting
#baroque #flemish-baroque-painting

Claude Monet

Public domain1840-1926·French·painting
#impressionism

Paul Cézanne

Public domain1839-1906·French·painting
#post-impressionism

Paul Gauguin

Public domain1848-1903·French·painting
#impressionism #pont-aven-school #post-impressionism #symbolism

Edvard Munch

Public domain1863-1944·Norwegian·painting
#expressionism #symbolism

Johannes Vermeer

Public domain1632-1675·Dutch·painting
#dutch-golden-age #baroque

Caravaggio

Public domain1571-1610·Italian·painting
#baroque #counter-reformation

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Public domain1841-1919·French·painting
#impressionism

Sandro Botticelli

Public domain1445-1510·Italian·painting
#early-renaissance #florentine-school

Edgar Degas

Public domain1834-1917·French·painting
#impressionism

Édouard Manet

Public domain1832-1883·French·painting
#impressionism

Titian

Public domain1490-1576·Italian·painting
#high-renaissance #venetian-school

Gustav Klimt

Public domain1862-1918·Austrian·painting
#vienna-secession #symbolism #art-nouveau

Ernst Haeckel

Public domain1834-1919·German·illustration

Wassily Kandinsky

Public domain1866-1944·Russian·painting
#bauhaus #expressionism #symbolism

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Public domain1864-1901·French·printmaking
#post-impressionism #art-nouveau

Paul Klee

Public domain1879-1940·German-Swiss·painting
#bauhaus #color-field #expressionism #pointillism

Georgia O'Keeffe

In copyright1887-1986·American·painting
#american-modernism

Hieronymus Bosch

Public domain1450-1516·Netherlandish·painting
#early-netherlandish-painting #northern-renaissance

Caspar David Friedrich

Public domain1774-1840·German·painting
#german-romanticism

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Public domain1525-1569·Flemish·painting
#dutch-and-flemish-renaissance-painting #northern-renaissance

Mary Cassatt

Public domain1844-1926·American·painting
#impressionism

Piet Mondrian

Public domain1872-1944·Dutch·painting
#de-stijl #post-impressionism #symbolism

Amedeo Modigliani

Public domain1884-1920·Italian·painting
#modern-art

Camille Pissarro

Public domain1830-1903·Danish-French·painting
#impressionism #neo-impressionism

J. M. W. Turner

Public domain1775-1851·English·painting
#english-painting #romanticism

Anthony van Dyck

Public domain1599-1641·Flemish·painting
#baroque-painting

William Hogarth

Public domain1697-1764·English·painting
#satire

Gustave Doré

Public domain1832-1883·French·illustration
#golden-age-of-illustration #romanticism #symbolism

Georges Seurat

Public domain1859-1891·French·painting
#neo-impressionism #post-impressionism #pointillism

John James Audubon

Public domain1785-1851·American·illustration
#natural-history-illustration

Artemisia Gentileschi

Public domain1593-1656·Italian·painting
#baroque

Berthe Morisot

Public domain1841-1895·French·painting
#impressionism

Egon Schiele

Public domain1890-1918·Austrian·painting
#expressionism

John Constable

Public domain1776-1837·English·painting
#romanticism #realism

Mark Rothko

In copyright1903-1970·American·painting
#abstract-expressionism

Alphonse Mucha

Public domain1860-1939·Czech·design
#art-nouveau

James McNeill Whistler

Public domain1834-1903·American·painting
#aestheticism

Ansel Adams

In copyright1902-1984·American·photography
#group-f-64

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Public domain1755-1842·French·painting
#neoclassicism #rococo

Frans Hals

Public domain1582-1666·Dutch·painting
#baroque #dutch-golden-age-painting

Utagawa Hiroshige

Public domain1797-1858·Japanese·printmaking
#ukiyo-e

Honoré Daumier

Public domain1808-1879·French·painting
#realism

David Hockney

In copyright1937-2026·British·painting
#pop-art #contemporary-art

Yayoi Kusama

In copyright1929-2026·Japanese·sculpture
#contemporary #pop-art #minimalism

Kathe Kollwitz

Public domain1867-1945·German·printmaking
#expressionism #realism

Edward Hopper

In copyright1882-1967·American·painting
#american-realism

Jean-Michel Basquiat

In copyright1960-1988·American·painting
#neo-expressionism #primitivism

Oskar Kokoschka

In copyright1886-1980·Austrian·painting
#expressionism

Dorothea Lange

In copyright1895-1965·American·photography
#social-realism

Eadweard Muybridge

Public domain1830-1904·English-American·photography

Gustave Caillebotte

Public domain1848-1894·French·painting
#impressionism

Jan Steen

Public domain1626-1679·Dutch·painting
#dutch-golden-age-painting

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Public domain1876-1907·German·painting
#expressionism

Pierre Bonnard

Public domain1867-1947·French·painting
#les-nabis

Rosa Bonheur

Public domain1822-1899·French·painting
#french-realism #naturalism

Kitagawa Utamaro

Public domain1753-1806·Japanese·painting
#ukiyo-e

Alfred Stieglitz

Public domain1864-1946·American·photography
#photo-secession #straight-photography

Thomas Cole

Public domain1801-1848·American·painting
#hudson-river-school

Aubrey Beardsley

Public domain1872-1898·English·illustration
#art-nouveau #aestheticism

Jacob van Ruisdael

Public domain1628-1682·Dutch·painting
#baroque-painting #dutch-golden-age-painting

Julia Margaret Cameron

Public domain1815-1879·British·photography
#pictorialism

Suzanne Valadon

Public domain1865-1938·French·painting
#post-impressionism #symbolism

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Public domain1720-1778·Italian·painting
#neoclassicism

Judith Leyster

Public domain1609-1660·Dutch·painting
#caravaggisti #dutch-golden-age-painting

Frederic Edwin Church

Public domain1826-1900·American·painting
#hudson-river-school

Albert Bierstadt

Public domain1830-1902·American·painting
#hudson-river-school

Hilma af Klint

Public domain1862-1944·Swedish·painting
#abstraction #symbolism

Josef Hoffmann

In copyright1870-1956·Austrian·design
#vienna-secession

Arthur Rackham

Public domain1867-1939·English·illustration
#golden-age-of-illustration #fairy-painting

Rachel Ruysch

Public domain1664-1750·Dutch·painting
#dutch-golden-age-painting #still-life

Emily Carr

Public domain1871-1945·Canadian·painting
#expressionism #french-modernism

Koloman Moser

Public domain1868-1918·Austrian·design
#vienna-secession

Jacques Callot

Public domain1592-1635·French (Lorraine)·printmaking

Martin Schongauer

Public domain1440-1491·German·painting
#northern-renaissance

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Public domain1798-1861·Japanese·painting
#ukiyo-e

Suzuki Harunobu

Public domain1724-1770·Japanese·printmaking
#nishiki-e #ukiyo-e

Adriaen van Ostade

Public domain1610-1685·Dutch·painting
#dutch-golden-age-painting

Wenceslaus Hollar

Public domain1607-1677·Czech·painting
#baroque

Eugène Atget

Public domain1857-1927·French·photography

Jules Chéret

Public domain1836-1932·French·painting
#art-nouveau

Howard Pyle

Public domain1853-1911·American·illustration
#brandywine-school #golden-age-of-illustration

Théophile Steinlen

Public domain1859-1923·Swiss-French·painting
#art-nouveau

Walter Crane

Public domain1845-1915·English·illustration
#symbolism #arts-and-crafts

Eugène Grasset

Public domain1845-1917·French·painting
#art-nouveau #symbolism

Yoshitoshi

Public domain1839-1892·Japanese·printmaking
#ukiyo-e

Emil Orlík

Public domain1870-1932·Czech·printmaking
#vienna-secession #japonisme

Maxfield Parrish

In copyright1870-1966·American·painting
#golden-age-of-illustration

Utagawa Kunisada

Public domain1786-1865·Japanese·printmaking
#utagawa-school #ukiyo-e

N. C. Wyeth

Public domain1882-1945·American·illustration
#french-realism #golden-age-of-illustration

Richard Gerstl

Public domain1883-1908·Austrian·painting
#expressionism

Keisai Eisen

Public domain1790-1848·Japanese·printmaking
#ukiyo-e

Cassandre

In copyright1901-1968·French·design
#art-deco

Edmund Dulac

Public domain1882-1953·British·illustration
#golden-age-of-illustration #orientalism

Hasui Kawase

In copyright1883-1957·Japanese·printmaking
#nihonga #shin-hanga

Kay Rasmus Nielsen

In copyright1886-1957·Danish·illustration
#art-nouveau

Ludwig Hohlwein

Public domain1874-1949·German·design
#sachplakat

Hiroshi Yoshida

Public domain1876-1950·Japanese·printmaking
#shin-hanga