12/04/1738 - 09/09/1815
John Singleton Copley (1738 – 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of impor...
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Fred Avery (Frederick Bean Avery)
02/26/1908 - 08/26/1980
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his m...
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10/05/1924 - 08/01/2006
Robert Thaves (October 5, 1924 – August 1, 2006) was the creator of the comic strip Frank and Ernest, which began in 1972.
07/19/1789 - 02/17/1854
John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator.
05/04/1826 - 04/07/1900
Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape...
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05/24/1816 - 07/18/1868
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816, – July 18, 1868) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.
01/05/1931 - 12/01/1989
Alvin Ailey, Jr. (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-Ame...
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07/10/1834 - 07/17/1903
The American painter, etcher, and lithographer James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) created a new set of principles for the fine arts, championed art for art's sake, and introduced a subtle style of painting in w...
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02/18/1775 - 11/09/1802
Thomas Girtin (18 February 1775 – 9 November 1802) was an English painter and etcher. A friend and rival of J. M. W. Turner, Girtin played a key role in establishing watercolour as a reputable art form...
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01/28/1912 - 08/11/1956
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and no...
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03/20/1811 - 07/07/1879
George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity,...
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07/16/1723 - 02/23/1792
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on...
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04/15/1452 - 05/02/1519
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonar...
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09/25/1724 - 07/10/1806
George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses.