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Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil...
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Theodore Robinson
Theodore Robinson (July 3 1852 – April 2 1896) was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1852
Date of death:
- Apr 2, 1896 (age 43 years)
Francisco Oller
Francisco Manuel Oller Cestero (June 17, 1833 – May 17, 1917) was a Puerto Rican artist. Oller is considered to be the only Latin American painter to play a role in the development of Impressionism.
Oller was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, the third...
Date of birth:
- Jun 17, 1833
Date of death:
- May 17, 1917 (age 83 years)
Frederick Carl Frieseke
Frederick Carl Frieseke (April 7, 1874 – August 24, 1939) was an American Impressionist painter.
He was born in Owosso, Michigan and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Académie Julian in Paris. Frieseke and his family...
Date of birth:
- Apr 7, 1874
Date of death:
- Aug 24, 1939 (age 65 years)
Frédéric Bazille
Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter whose major works often foreground the figure within a landscape painted en plein air.
Frédéric Bazille was born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc...
Date of birth:
- Dec 6, 1841
Date of death:
- Nov 28, 1870 (age 28 years)
Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1848
Date of death:
- Feb 21, 1894 (age 45 years)
Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) (pronounced /kəˈsæt/) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists....
Date of birth:
- May 22, 1844
Date of death:
- Jun 14, 1926 (age 82 years)
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (French pronunciation: [pɔl seˈzan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1839
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1906 (age 67 years)
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (French pronunciation: [ilɛʀ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡɑʀ dœˈɡɑ]), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of...
Date of birth:
- Jul 19, 1834
Date of death:
- Sep 27, 1917 (age 83 years)
Armand Guillaumin
Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 – June 26, 1927), was a French impressionist painter and lithographer.
Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, France, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons. He...
Date of birth:
- Feb 16, 1841
Date of death:
- Jun 26, 1927 (age 86 years)
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (French pronunciation: [edwaʁ manɛ]), 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883, was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 23, 1832
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1883 (age 51 years)
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because she was a woman, she is now considered among the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1841
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1895 (age 54 years)
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1830
Date of death:
- Nov 13, 1903 (age 73 years)
Claude Monet
Claude Monet (French pronunciation: [klod mɔnɛ]) also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1840
Date of death:
- Dec 5, 1926 (age 86 years)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is...
Date of birth:
- Feb 25, 1841
Date of death:
- Dec 3, 1919 (age 78 years)
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1853
Date of death:
- Jul 29, 1890 (age 37 years)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898), was a French painter, who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists.
He was born Pierre-Cécile Puvis de...
Date of birth:
- Dec 14, 1824
Date of death:
- Oct 24, 1898 (age 73 years)
Edmund Charles Tarbell
Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 – August 1, 1938) was an American Impressionist painter. He was a member of the Ten American Painters.
Tarbell was born at West Groton, Massachusetts, to a family that arrived from England in 1647. His father,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 26, 1862
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 1938 (age 76 years)
Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who was born, and spent most of his life, in France. Sisley is generally recognized as the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to...
Date of birth:
- Oct 30, 1839
Date of death:
- Jan 29, 1899 (age 59 years)
Albert Henry Krehbiel
Albert Henry Krehbiel (November 25, 1873 - June 29, 1945), was an American artist who was born in Denmark, Iowa and who taught, lived and worked for many years in Chicago. Although educated as a realist in Paris, which is reflected in his...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1873
Date of death:
- Jun 29, 1945 (age 71 years)
John Henry Twachtman
John Henry Twachtman (August 4 1853 - August 8 1902) was an American painter best-known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of impressionism to be...
Date of birth:
- Aug 4, 1853
Date of death:
- Aug 8, 1902 (age 49 years)
Dulah Marie Evans
Dulah Marie Evans, later Dulah Marie Evans Krehbiel (1875-1951) was an American painter,photographer, printmaker, illustrator, and etcher.
She was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She attended William Penn University and graduated from The Art Institute of...
Date of birth:
- 1875
Date of death:
- 1951 (age 76 years)
Michael Peter Ancher
Michael Peter Ancher (June 9, 1849 – September 19, 1927), born on the island of Bornholm, was a Danish painter. In 1874 he joined the growing society of artists in Skagen, the Skagen Painters, and in 1880 he married fellow painter and Skagen native...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1849
Date of death:
- Sep 19, 1927 (age 78 years)
Anna Ancher
Anna Kirstine Brøndum Ancher (August 18, 1859 – April 15, 1935) was the only one of the Skagen Painters that was actually born in Skagen, Denmark.
Anna Ancher was born and grew up in the northernmost area of Jutland, called Skagen (the Skaw). Her...
Date of birth:
- Aug 18, 1859
Date of death:
- Apr 15, 1935 (age 75 years)
Frederic Remington
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 - December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century...
Date of birth:
- Oct 4, 1861
Date of death:
- Dec 26, 1909 (age 48 years)
J. Alden Weir
Julian Alden Weir (August 30, 1852 – December 8, 1919) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut. Weir was also one of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied...
Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1852
Date of death:
- Dec 8, 1919 (age 67 years)
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann (July 20, 1847 – February 8, 1935) was a German-Jewish painter and printmaker best known for his etching and lithography.
The son of a Jewish businessman from Berlin, Liebermann first studied law and philosophy at the University of...
Date of birth:
- Jul 20, 1847
Date of death:
- Feb 8, 1935 (age 87 years)
Maurice Prendergast
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858–February 1, 1924) was a U.S. post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. Technically, he was a member of The Eight, but the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1858
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 1924 (age 65 years)
Eugène Boudin
Eugène Boudin (12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors.
Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1824
Date of death:
- Aug 8, 1898 (age 74 years)
Frederick McCubbin
Frederick McCubbin (25 February 1855 – 20 December 1917) was an Australian painter who was prominent in the famous Heidelberg School, one of the most important periods in Australia's visual arts history.
McCubbin was born in Melbourne, the third of...
Date of birth:
- Feb 25, 1855
Date of death:
- Dec 20, 1917 (age 62 years)
Willard Metcalf
Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1, 1858 – March 9, 1925) was an American artist. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1858
Date of death:
- Mar 9, 1925 (age 66 years)
Valentin Serov
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (Russian: Валентин Александрович Серов) (January 19, 1865 - December 5, 1911) was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era.
Serov was born in St. Petersburg, son of the Russian composer...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1865
Date of death:
- Dec 5, 1911 (age 46 years)
Lilla Cabot Perry
Lilla Cabot Perry (January 13, 1848—February 28, 1933) was an American artist who worked in the Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate of the French...
Date of birth:
- Jan 13, 1848
Date of death:
- Feb 28, 1933 (age 85 years)
Laura Muntz Lyall
Laura Muntz Lyall, June 18, 1860 – December 9, 1930, was a Canadian impressionist painter. Born Laura Adeline Muntz in Radford, Warwickshire, England, her family emigrated to Canada when she was a child to farm in the Muskoka District of Ontario.
As...
Date of birth:
- 1860
Date of death:
- 1930 (age 70 years)
William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 – October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for...
Date of birth:
- Nov 1, 1849
Date of death:
- Oct 25, 1916 (age 67 years)
Johan Jongkind
Johan Barthold Jongkind (June 3, 1819 – February 9, 1891) was a Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism who influenced Claude Monet.
Jongkind was born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel province of the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 3, 1819
Date of death:
- Feb 9, 1891 (age 71 years)
Childe Hassam
Frederick Childe Hassam (b. October 17, 1859, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts – d. August 27, 1935, East Hampton, New York) was a prominent and prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary...
Date of birth:
- Oct 17, 1859
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1935 (age 75 years)
Robert Vonnoh
Robert William Vonnoh (September 17, 1858 – 1933) was an American Impressionist painter known for his portraits and landscapes. He traveled extensively between the East Coast and France, more specifically the artists colony Grez-sur-Loing.
He...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1858
Date of death:
- 1933 (age 74 years)
Julian Onderdonk
Julian Onderdonk (July 30, 1882–October 27, 1922) was a Texan Impressionist painter, often called "the father of Texas painting."
Julian Onderdonk was born in San Antonio, TX to Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (a painter) and Emily Gould Onderdonk. He was...
Date of birth:
- Jul 30, 1882
Date of death:
- Oct 27, 1922 (age 40 years)
Jean Béraud
Jean Béraud (January 12, 1849 in Saint Petersburg – October 4, 1935 in Paris) was a French Impressionist painter and commercial artist.
Béraud's father (also called Jean) was a sculptor and was likely working on the site of St. Isaac's Cathedral at...
Date of birth:
- Jan 12, 1849
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1935 (age 86 years)
George Wharton Edwards
George Wharton Edwards (1859 in Fair Haven, Connecticut – January 18, 1950 in Greenwich) was an American impressionist painter and illustrator and author of several books of travel and historical subjects. His books which included his own...
Date of birth:
- 1859
Date of death:
- Jan 18, 1950 (age 91 years)
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (February 27, 1863 – August 10, 1923) was a Spanish painter, born in Valencia, who excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are...
Date of birth:
- 1863
Date of death:
- 1923 (age 60 years)
Olga Boznańska
Olga Boznańska (15 April 1865 in Kraków – 26 October 1940 in Paris), Polish woman painter.
Daughter of railway engineer Adam Nowina Boznański and Eugenia Mondan. Boznańska learnt drawing from Józef Siedlecki and Kazimierz Pochwalski, she was also a...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1865
Date of death:
- Oct 26, 1940 (age 75 years)
Eva Gonzalès
Eva Gonzalès (April 19, 1849 – May 6, 1883) was a French Impressionist painter.
Eva Gonzalès was born in Paris into the family of the writer Emmanuel Gonzalèz. In 1865, she began her professional training and took lessons in drawing from the society...
Date of birth:
- Apr 19, 1849
Date of death:
- May 6, 1883 (age 34 years)
Robert Reid
Robert Lewis Reid (July 29, 1862 – December 2, 1929) was an American Impressionist painter and muralist.
Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under Otto Grundmann, where he was also...
Date of birth:
- Jul 29, 1862
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1929 (age 67 years)
Lawton S. Parker
Lawton S. Parker (1868–1954) was an American impressionist painter.
Born in Fairfield, Michigan, raised in Kearney, Nebraska, Parker studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He traveled to France and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. After return...
Date of birth:
- 1868
Date of death:
- 1954 (age 86 years)
Ferenc Joachim
Ferenc Joachim (May 21, 1882 - September 16, 1964) was a Hungarian (Magyar) painter of portraits and landscapes in oil, watercolors and pastels on canvas, board and paper. He studied and painted in Budapest and Western Europe. Hungarian usage puts...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1882
Date of death:
- Sep 16, 1964 (age 82 years)
Frank Weston Benson
Frank Weston Benson (March 24, 1862 – November 15, 1951) was an American Impressionist artist, and a member of the Ten American Painters.
Benson was born in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1879, he began study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 24, 1862
Date of death:
- Nov 15, 1951 (age 89 years)
Ştefan Luchian
Ştefan Luchian (1 February 1868–28 June 1917) was a Romanian painter, famous for his landscapes and still life works.
He was born in Ştefăneşti, a village of Botoşani County, as the son of Major Dumitru Luchian and of Elena Chiriacescu. The Luchian...
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1868
Date of death:
- Jun 28, 1917 (age 49 years)
Felix Bracquemond
Félix Bracquemond (May 22, 1833 – October 29, 1914) was a French painter and etcher.
Bracquemonde was born in Paris. He was trained in early youth as a trade lithographer, until Guichard, a pupil of Ingres, took him to his studio. His portrait of...
Date of birth:
- May 22, 1833
Date of death:
- Oct 29, 1914 (age 81 years)
Medardo Rosso
Medardo Rosso (21 June 1858, Turin, Italy – 31 March 1928, Milan) was an Italian sculptor. He is thought to have developed the Post Impressionism style in sculpture along with Auguste Rodin.
Medardo Rosso was born in Turin, Italy, in 1858, the son...
Date of birth:
- Jun 21, 1858
Date of death:
- Mar 31, 1928 (age 69 years)
Paul César Helleu
Paul César Helleu (December 17, 1859 – March 23, 1927) was a French artist best known for his portraits of many of the most famous and beautiful women of his time including the Duchess of Marlborough, the Countess of Greffulhe, the Marchesa Casati...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1859
Date of death:
- Mar 23, 1927 (age 67 years)
Lasar Segall
The artist Lasar Segall (July 21, 1891 – August 2, 1957) was a Lithuanian born Jew, who enventually became a naturalized Brazilian citizen. He was a painter, engraver and sculptor who first studied in Europe. Segall's work is derived from...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1891
Date of death:
- Aug 2, 1957 (age 66 years)
Jean-Louis Forain
Jean-Louis Forain (October 23, 1852 - July 11, 1931) was a French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher.
Forain was born in Reims, Marne but at age eight, his family moved to Paris. He began his career working as a...
Date of birth:
- Oct 23, 1852
Date of death:
- Jul 11, 1931 (age 78 years)
Harriet Backer
Harriet Backer (21 January 1845, Holmestrand — 25 March 1932, Oslo) was a Norwegian painter who achieved recognition in her own time and was a pioneer among female artists both in the Nordic countries and in Europe generally.
Backer was born to an...
Date of birth:
- Jan 21, 1845
Date of death:
- 1932 (age 87 years)
Martha Walter
Martha Walter (March 19, 1875 – January 1976) was an American impressionist painter.
Walter was a Philadelphia native. She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, where she was taught by William Merritt Chase. She won...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1875
Date of death:
- Jan 1976 (age 100 years)
Edward Willis Redfield
Edward Willis Redfield (December 18, 1869–October 19, 1965) was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, often...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1869
Date of death:
- Oct 19, 1965 (age 95 years)
Daniel Garber
Daniel Garber (1880-1958) was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware...
Date of birth:
- 1880
Date of death:
- 1958 (age 78 years)
Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists which included the group's leaders Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 22, 1873
Date of death:
- Dec 18, 1939 (age 66 years)
Max Slevogt
Max Slevogt (October 8, 1868 – September 20, 1932) was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein...
Date of birth:
- Oct 8, 1868
Date of death:
- Sep 20, 1932 (age 63 years)
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Bessie Potter Vonnoh American sculptor, born August 17, 1872 in St Louis, Missouri and died in New York City on March 8, 1955.
Best known for her small bronzes, mostly of domestic scenes and for her garden fountains. She was one of Lorado Taft's...
Date of birth:
- 1872
Date of death:
- 1955 (age 83 years)
