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Famous painters

The artists behind the world's most famous paintings, and where to see their work.

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Artists with one famous painting on our list link straight to that painting.

ArtistFamous paintings
Andrew WyethChristina's World
Artemisia GentileschiJudith Slaying Holofernes
CaravaggioThe Musicians, The Calling of Saint Matthew
Carel FabritiusThe Goldfinch
Caspar David FriedrichWanderer above the Sea of Fog
Claude MonetGarden at Sainte-Adresse, Impression, Sunrise, Woman with a Parasol, Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, The Japanese Footbridge
Diego VelázquezJuan de Pareja, Las Meninas
Edgar DegasThe Dance Class
Edvard MunchThe Scream
Edward HopperNighthawks
El GrecoView of Toledo
Emanuel LeutzeWashington Crossing the Delaware
Eugène DelacroixLiberty Leading the People
Francisco GoyaThe Third of May 1808, Saturn Devouring His Son
Frederic Edwin ChurchTwilight in the Wilderness
Frederic LeightonFlaming June
Frida KahloThe Two Fridas
Georges SeuratA Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Grant WoodAmerican Gothic
Gustav KlimtThe Kiss, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Gustave CaillebotteParis Street; Rainy Day
Hans Holbein the YoungerThe Ambassadors
Henri RousseauThe Sleeping Gypsy
Henry FuseliThe Nightmare
Hieronymus BoschThe Garden of Earthly Delights
J. M. W. TurnerThe Fighting Temeraire, Rain, Steam and Speed
Jacques-Louis DavidThe Oath of the Horatii, The Death of Socrates, The Death of Marat, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Napoleon in His Study
James McNeill WhistlerWhistler's Mother
Jan van EyckThe Arnolfini Portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresGrande Odalisque
Jean-François MilletThe Gleaners, The Angelus
Jean-Honoré FragonardThe Swing
Johannes VermeerThe Milkmaid, View of Delft, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, Woman Holding a Balance, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Girl with the Red Hat
John ConstableThe Hay Wain
John Everett MillaisOphelia
John Singer SargentMadame X
John Singleton CopleyWatson and the Shark
John William WaterhouseThe Lady of Shalott
Katsushika HokusaiThe Great Wave off Kanagawa
Leonardo da VinciGinevra de' Benci, Lady with an Ermine, Vitruvian Man, The Last Supper, Salvator Mundi, Mona Lisa
Mary CassattThe Child's Bath
MichelangeloThe Creation of Adam
Pablo PicassoThe Old Guitarist, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Guernica
Paul CézanneThe Basket of Apples
Pierre-Auguste RenoirBal du moulin de la Galette, Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pieter Bruegel the ElderThe Tower of Babel, The Hunters in the Snow, The Harvesters
RaphaelThe School of Athens
RembrandtThe Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, The Night Watch, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, The Jewish Bride
René MagritteThe Treachery of Images, The Son of Man
Rosa BonheurThe Horse Fair
Salvador DalíThe Persistence of Memory
Sandro BotticelliPrimavera, The Birth of Venus
Thomas EakinsThe Gross Clinic
Thomas GainsboroughThe Blue Boy
Théodore GéricaultThe Raft of the Medusa
Vincent van GoghThe Potato Eaters, Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat, Café Terrace at Night, The Night Café, The Bedroom, Sunflowers, Starry Night Over the Rhône, The Starry Night, Wheat Field with Cypresses, Irises, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Cypresses, Almond Blossom, Wheatfield with Crows
Winslow HomerBreezing Up (A Fair Wind), The Gulf Stream
Édouard ManetOlympia, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

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