Artists from around the world
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.
Filippo Antonio Cifariello was an Italian sculptor; primarily of small figures and busts.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, He went on to lay the foundation for the period of art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting, and is referred to as the Father of Danish painting.
George Dawe RA was an English portraitist. His painting of classical subjects won much praise
Jerome-Martin Langlois was a FrenchNeoclassical stylepainter. He was trained by painterJacques-Louis Davidand he was a Knight of theLegion of Honour.
Marie-Gabrielle Capet was a French Neoclassical painter. She excelled as a portrait painter and her works include oil paintings, watercolours, and miniatures.
Arno Breker was a German architect and sculptor who is best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, where they were endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art.
Antonio Donghi was an Italian painter of scenes of popular life, landscapes, and still life.
Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff was a Russian neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher.
Charles Despiau was a French sculptor. Charles-Albert Despiau was born at Mont-de-Marsan, Landes and attended first the École des Arts Décoratifs and later the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Boris Schatz was a Lithuanian Jewish artist and sculptor who settled in Palestine.
Mariano Benlliure was a Spanish sculptor, who executed many public monuments and religious sculptures in Spain, working in a heroic realist style.
John William Godward was an English painter from the end of the Neo-Classicist era.
Yannoulis Chalepas was a Greek sculptor and significant figure of Modern Greek art.
Mary Edmonia Lewis, Wildfire, was an African American sculptor, of mixed African-American and Native American heritage.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship.
Sophie Gengembre Anderson was a French-born British artist who specialised in genre painting of children and women, typically in rural settings.
Gheorghe Tattarescu was a Moldavian, later Romanian painter and a pioneer of neoclassicism in his country's modern painting.
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov original name Charles Bruleau, also transliterated Briullov or Briuloff and referred to by his friends as The Great Karl, was a Russian painter.
Sylvester Feodosiyevich Shchedrin was a Russian landscape painter.
John Gibson RA was a Welsh Neoclassical sculptor who studied in Rome under Canova.
John Lewis Krimmel and Election Day, both filled with lively characterizations of scores of crowd members.
Pieter van Hanselaere was a Belgian painter in the neoclassical style, who specialized in portraits and religious and historical scenes.
Simplício Rodrigues de Sá was a Portuguese-born painter and art professor who spent most of his career in Brazil.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter.
Rembrandt Peale was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Pierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin was a French painter born in Paris.
Marie-Denise Villers was a French painter who specialized in portraits.
Antoine-Jean Gros titled as Baron Gros in 1824, was a French painter. His work was in the genres of history and neoclassical painting.
Vincenzo Camuccini was an Italian painter of Neoclassic histories and religious paintings. He was considered the premier academic painter of his time in Rome.
François Pascal Simon Gérard titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a prominent French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was Italian.
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux, was a French neoclassical, historical and genre painter.
Joseph Anton Koch was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter.
Domingos António de Sequeira was a famous Portuguese painter at the Royal Court of King John VI of Portugal.
Maria Barbara Krafft was an Austrian painter, best remembered today for her widely reproduced posthumous portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet aka. Carle Vernet was a French painter, the youngest child of Claude Joseph Vernet, and the father of Horace Vernet.
Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld was a French painter. A native of the city of Carpentras, Bidauld first studied painting with his elder brother, Jean-Pierre-Xavier, in Lyons.
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits.
Antonio Canova was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures.
John Trumbull was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War and was notable for his historical paintings.
John Flaxman RA was a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism.
Nicolas-Antoine Taunay was a French painter known best for his landscapes with scenes from ancient and modern history, mythology, and religion.
Abraham van Strij was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Fyodor Yakovlevich Alekseyev was a Russian painter. His contemporaries often called him the Russian Canaletto, in recognition of his masterful vedute.
William Hamilton RA was an English painter and illustrator. Hamilton was born in Chelsea, London, but travelled and worked in Italy with Antonio Zucchi for several years.
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes was a French painter who was influential in elevating the status of open-air painting.
Christian August Lorentzen was a Danish painter. He was the instructor of Martinus Rørbye.
Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.
Giacomo Quarenghi was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Imperial Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg.
James Barry RA was an Irish painter, best remembered for his six-part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
Jean-Antoine Houdon was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment.
John Singleton Copley RA was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England.
Joseph Wright ARA, styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution.
Gavin Hamilton was a Scots neoclassical history painter,who is more widely remembered for his hunts for antiquities in the neighbourhood of Rome. These roles in combination made him an arbiter of neoclassical taste.
Claude-Joseph Vernet was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.
Marcos Zapata, also called Marcos Sapaca Inca, was a Peruvian Quechua painter, born in Cuzco.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a Frenchpainterof portraits,genre scenes, andhistory painting.
Dmytro Levytsky was a Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter.
David Morier was an Anglo-Swiss painter of portraits, military subjects and historical scenes around and after the time of the War of the Austrian Succession and the related Jacobite rising of 1745.
David Bailly was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Bailly was born at Leyden in the Dutch Republic, the son of a Flemish immigrant, calligrapher and fencing master, Peter Bailly.
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy.
Hendrik Voogd was a Dutch painter and printmaker, who was active in Italy.
Francisco Vieira, who choose the artistic name of Vieira Portuense, was a Portuguese painter, one of the introducers of Neoclassicism in Portuguese painting.
Lemuel Francis Abbott was an English portrait painter, famous for his likeness of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson and for those of other naval officers and literary figures of the 18th century.
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin who dominated portraiture in Russia at the turn of the 19th century.
Gilbert Charles Stuart was an American painter from Rhode Island who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, also known as Madame Lebrun or Madame Le Brun, was a prominent French portrait painter of the late eighteenth century.
José Campeche y Jordán, is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas.
Ralph Earl was an American painter known for his portraits, of which at least 183 can be documented.
Luis Paret y Alcázar was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.
John Russell RA was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques.
Anne Vallayer-Coster was an 18th-century French painter best known for still lifes.
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
Charles Willson Peale was an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist.
Benjamin West PRA was an Anglo-American history painter around and after the time of the American War of Independence and the Seven Years' War.
Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov was a distinguished Russian painter who specialized in portraits.
Joseph, Baron Ducreux was a French noble, portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver, who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France, and resumed his career after the French Revolution.
George Romney was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson.
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution.
Francisco Bayeu y Subias was a Spanish painter, active in a Neoclassic style, whose main subjects were religious and historical themes.
Hubert Robert was a French painter, noted for his landscape paintings and capriccio, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism.