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1768, Aug 221801-18181818, Oct 4
an Austrian historical painter and etcher. Among his famous works are paintings and etchings of Klopstock in Elysium, Orestes and Electra, Socrates and Theramenes as well as Emperor Francis I of Austria. He also painted the figural part of the front curtain of the old Burgtheater under directions of Füger.
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Josef Abel1768, Aug 221801
 
18181818, Oct 4

Rienk Jelgerhuis1729, Apr 131744
 
18061806, Apr 17
 a Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman. Jelgerhuis was born in Leeuwarden. He mainly made his fa...
William Winstanley [2]17751793
 
18061806
 an English painter of landscapes and portraits who worked in the United States from the early 179...
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard1743, Sep 111764
 
18091809, Jun 4
 a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, ...
Peter Rushton Maverick1755, Apr 11770
 
18091811, Dec 12
 American silversmith and engraver. After training as a silversmith, he responded to the growing d...
Charles Willson Peale1741, Apr 151770
 
18101827, Feb 22
 an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist. He is best remember...
Henry Benbridge1743, Oct1769
 
18121812, Feb
 early American portrait painter, was born in Philadelphia, the only child of James and Mary (Clar...
George Engleheart1750, Oct 261773
 
18131829, Mar 21
 one of the greatest English painters of portrait miniatures, and a contemporary of Richard Cosway...
Benjamin Thompson1753, Mar 261766
 
18141814, Aug 21
 an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory w...
Andrea Appiani1754, May 311776
 
18141817, Nov 8
 an Italian neoclassical painter; fresco painter active in Milan and a court painter of Napoleon. ...
John Singleton Copley17381752
 
18151815, Sep 9
 an American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston,...
Daniel Caffe1750, Jul 211770
 
18151815, Jan 16
 a German pastel painter of portraits. Caffé was born in Küstrin, and began his career as a pain...
Friedrich Bury1763, Mar 121780
 
18151823, May 18
 a German artist born in Hanau. He studied first under his father Jean Jacques Bury, who was a gol...
Robert Fulton1765, Nov 141793
 
18151815, Feb 24
 an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successfu...
Frederick Kemmelmeyer1752/531782
 
18161823 ca
 Frederick Kemmelmeyer advertised that he was an artist for the first time in a Baltimore newspape...
Marcello Bacciarelli1731, Feb 161750
 
18181818, Jan 5
 a Polish-Italian painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods. He painted a set of portrait...
Benjamin Greenleaf1769, jan 131803
 
18181821, Jan 10
 painter was once thought to be identical to Benjamin Greenleaf (1786-1805) the prominent American...
Jurriaan Andriessen1742, Jul 121760
 
18191819, Jul 31
 an able artist in decorative painting; the decorations of the new theatre at Amsterdam were execu...
Martin Drolling the Elder17521810
 
18191817
 Born in Oberhergheim, France. Learned to paint from an artist in Schlestadt, and then attended th...
Benjamin West1738, Oct 11746
 
18201820 , Mar 11
 Born in Springfield, PA. He was self-taught, having little formal education and he could barely r...
Henry Fuseli1741, Feb 71761
 
18201825, Apr 17
 a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his...
Ezra Ames1768, May 51795
 
18201836, Feb 23
 a popular portrait painter in Albany, New York during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Mor...
John Scott1774, Mar 121788
 
18211827, Dec 24
 an English engraver, known for his work on topics showing animals. At the age of twelve he was ap...
Andries Cornelis Lens1739, Mar 311759
 
18221822, Mar 30
 Flemish painter and draughtsman
Joseph Steward1753, Jul 61786
 
18221822, Apr 15
 an American minister, portrait painter and museum curator. Steward was a largely self-taught arti...
Francisco Goya1746, Mar 301786
 
18241828, Apr 16
 a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of ...
Eunice Pinney1770, Feb 91809
 
18261826
 an American folk artist active in the towns of Windsor and Simsbury, Connecticut. According to ar...
Matthew Harris Jouett17881812
 
18271827
 an American portrait painter, the son of Jack Jouett. Jouett painted in New Orleans, Natchez, Mis...
William Thornton1759, May 201789
 
18281828, Mar 28
 a British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capi...
Johann Samuel Arnhold1766, Dec 221780
 
18291828, Jan 1
 a German painter. He was born at Heinitz, a village near Meissen, and studied in the Art School o...
Elisabeth von Adlerflycht1775, Sep 231811
 
18291846, Mar 15
 a German painter and inventor of the Rhine panorama. Elisabeth von Adlerflycht had a painting gal...
Marianne Ehrenstrom1773, Dec 91790
 
18311867, Jan 4
 a Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, memorialist, principal and lady-...
William Dunlap1766, Feb 191783
 
18341839, Sep 28
 a pioneer of American theater. He was a producer, playwright, and actor, as well as a historian. ...
Johannes Rienksz Jelgerhuis17701785
 
18361836
 a 19th-century painter and actor from the Northern Netherlands. He was also known for interiors a...
Hendrik Voogd1768, Jul 101788
 
18391839, Sep 4
 a Dutch painter and printmaker, who was active in Italy. Voogd's works from his first Roman years...
Jose Aparicio1773, Dec 161790
 
18391838, May 10
 a Spanish painter of the Neoclassic period. Born in Alicante and died in Madrid. His early traini...
Karl Friedrich Schinkel1781, Mar 131805
 
18391841, Oct 9
 a Prussian architect, city planner, and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schin...
Sir George Back1796, Nov 61808
 
18391878, Jun 23
 a British naval officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic, naturalist and artist. As a boy, he wen...
Giovanni Paolo Panini1691, Jun 171710
 
1841765, Oct 21
 a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ("view pa...
Jacob Maentel1763, Jun 151797
 
18401863, Apr, 28
 Born in Kassel, Germany. Self-taught artist, painted local portraits. Fought under Napolean. Emig...
William Kneass1781, Sep 251812
 
18401840, Aug 27
 the second Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1824 until his death in 1840. Kneass is ...
Johann Adam Ackermann17801800
 
184091853, Mar 27
 a German landscape painter of the early 19th century. His best-known works are his winter landsca...
Benjamin Trottunknown1791
 
18411843
 Benjamin Trott, thought to have been born in Boston, ranks with Edward Greene Malbone and Charles...
Washington Allston1779, Nov 51801
 
18411843, Jul 9
 an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America'...
Augustus Wall Callcott1779, Feb 201799
 
18431844, Nov 2
 an English landscape painter. His preference for landscape, including river and coast scenery, so...
Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath1775, Feb 171814
 
18441844, Feb 25
 a portrait painter, miniaturist, and lithographer. It is said that he painted the portrait of the...
Henry Sargent1770, Nov 251793
 
18451845, Feb 21
  American painter and military man, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 1793 Sargent went t...
John Vanderlyn1775, Oct 181791
 
18471852, Sep 23
 an American neoclassicist painter. In 1802 he painted two views of Niagara Falls, which were engr...
Rembrandt Peale1778, Feb 221791
 
18491860, Oct 3
 an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed fo...
George Chinnery1774, Jan 51796
 
18491852, May 30
 Born in London, studied at the Royal Academy Schools. Moved to Ireland in 1796, where he establis...
Leo von Klenze1784, Feb 291808
 
18491864, Jan 26
 a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, ...
Vicente Lopez y Portana1772, Sep 191794
 
18501850, Jul 22
 a Spanish painter, considered one of the best portrait painters of his time. Vicente López was a...
Jules Robert Auguste17891810
 
18501850, Apr 15
 a French painter associated with Romanticism and classicism. His travels in Greece, Egypt, and Mo...
Abdallah Khanunknown1810
 
1850unknown
 a Persian painter and architect, active between 1810 and 1850 in Tehran. He received his apprenti...
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek17781793
 
18511851
 a Dutch painter and draughtsman. Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek initially trained under Thomas Gaal, ...
John James Audubon1785, Apr 261803
 
18511851, Jan 27
 an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his extensive studies docu...
Heinrich Gotthold Arnold17851800
 
18541854
 a German artist. Arnold was born in 1785 at Lamütz, near Radeberg in Saxony. He was a pupil of S...
Jean-Baptiste Isabey1767, Apr 111786
 
18551855, Apr 18
 a French painter born at Nancy. Employed at Versailles on portraits of the dukes of Angoulême an...
Albrecht Adam1786, Apr 161809
 
18581862, Aug 28
 a German painter of battles and horses. Brother of Heinrich Adam. He worked until a great age, re...
Charles Hamilton Smith1776, Dec 261787
 
18591859, Sep 21
 an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy. His military career bega...
Matthew Cotes Wyatt17771805
 
18591862, Jan 3
 a painter and sculptor and a member of the Wyatt family, who were well known in the Victorian era...
Karl Agricola17791800
 
18621862
 a German artist, noted for his portrait miniatures. He became known for his mythological pictures...
Ernst Gebauer1782, May 231797
 
18651865, Jul 7
 a German painter. Very little information is available about his life. He was born in Lietzen and...
Jean-Frederic Waldeck1766, Mar 16?1790
 
18691875, Apr 30
 a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. Waldeck is remembered primarily for the...
Thomas Sully17831801
 
18691872
 an American portrait painter, who was born in Britain but lived most of his life in Philadelphia....
Jakob Alt1789, Sep 271810
 
18691872, Sep 30
 a German painter and lithographer. He became noted as a landscape painter and made various journe...
Antoine-Louis Barye1796, Sep 241810
 
18691875, Jun 25
 an Italian painter and architect of the early-Baroque period, active in Rome and Spain, where he ...
Edward Blore1787, Sep 131811
 
18741879, Sep 4
 a 19th-century British landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary. In 1826, he w...
William Bartram1739, Apr 201773
 
1901823, Jul 22
 an American naturalist. He was born in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a boy, he acco...
Ruth Henshaw Bascom1772, Dec 151791
 
1921848, Feb 16
 an American folk artist. Bascom made portraits of friends and relatives when she lived with her h...
Heinrich Adam17871811
 
 
1941862, Feb 15
 a German painter. He studied painting in Augsburg and Munich, and distinguished himself as a pain...
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