Johan Christian Dahl
1788-1857
Johan Christian Claussen Dahl, also known as I.C. Dahl, was a Norwegian Romantic landscape painter. Johan Christian Dahl was born in Bergen. He formed his style without much tuition, remaining at Bergen. When he was twenty-four he left for the better fie[......]
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret
1852-1929
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret was French Realist painter. He was the dean of the 19th century academic naturalist tradition. Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret has been coming back into public consciousness with the originality of his con[......]
Richard Dadd
1817-1886
Richard Dadd was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Oriental scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were [......]
Alexandre Calame
1810-1864
Alexandre Calame was a great Swiss 19th century landscape painter and lithographer.
Alexandre Calame first apprenticed as a tradesman in Geneva. In 1830 he entered the studio of Diday where he made rapid progress and eventually succeeded his mentor as headma[......]
Francesco del Cairo
1607 – 1665
Francesco del Cairo has been an Italian Baroque painter.
Initially he was trained under Morazzone, whose influence is seen in his early works.
Cairo moved young to Turin to the court of the Savoia. InTurin, Cairo made series of paintings whith[......]
Gustave Caillebotte
1848 -1894
Gustave Caillebotte was a French painter, member and a generous patron of the Impressionists, stamp collector, and yacht engineer. He shared the Impressionists’ commitment to optical truth. But Caillebotte’s style belongs to the school of Realism.[......]
William Vincent Cahill
1878-1924
William Vincent Cahill was American painter known for his artwork and his involvement in the School for Illustration and Painting in Los Angeles.
Born in Syracuse, New York in 1878, Cahill began his studies of art at the Art Students League in New York, [......]
Guido Cagnacci
1601-1681
Guido Cagnacci was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, belonging to the Bolognese School. Cagnacci was an interesting Emilian painter of the mid-seventeenth century. Like many others from his region, he was actively involved in rediscovering classical An[......]
Alexandre Cabanel
1823-1889
Alexandre Cabanel was a French Academic painter. He was the winner of the Prix de Rome in 1845, and he was ranked with Bouguereau as one of the most successful and influential academic painters of the period and one of the sternest opponents of the Impressionist[......]
Bryson Burroughs
1869-1934
Bryson Burroughs was American painter and curator. He was born in 1869 in the Boston suburb of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA. He is remembered as a curator of painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1909-34), where he discovered and acquired important works, s[......]