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J. Wilhelm Jankowski Documented profileCountry to be documented
A painter of landscapes and vedute, J. Wilhelm Jankowski is documented as active in Austria and Bohemia. Among the works recorded under his name is *View of the River Inz*, an oil on…
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Jaber Al Mahjoub Documented profileTunisia
Jaber Al Mahjoub’s work brings together several media and materials: gouache, acrylic painting and sculptures made with plaster bandages, to which a sales notice adds papier-mâché. D…
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Jacob Adriaensz Backer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob Adriaensz Backer is presented as a Dutch painter of the Golden Age. The son of Adriaen Tjercksz, a Mennonite baker, and Hilk Folckerts, he probably trained in the workshop of J…
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Jacob Duck Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob Duck, a Dutch painter said to have lived from 1600 to 1667, is presented as an Utrecht artist who specialised in interiors with soldiers. According to Léonard Pouy’s study, his…
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Jacob El Hanani Documented profileIsrael
Jacob El Hanani’s drawings take shape through the accumulation of thousands of lines or tiny letters, according to a plan defined in advance. This plan may determine the number or le…
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Jacob Philipp Hackert Documented profileGermany
The Prussian neoclassical landscape painter Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737–1807) built a career that took him from the academies and travels of northern Europe to Italy, where he became…
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Jacob van Hulsdonck Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Jacob van Hulsdonck was born in Antwerp in 1582 and died there in 1647. He trained in still-life painting in Middelburg, where he joined Ambrosius Bosschaert, who…
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Jacopo Bassano Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacopo Bassano, also known as Jacopo dal Ponte or Giacomo da Ponte, developed a style of painting that the National Gallery describes as rustic, realistic and expressive. According t…
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Jacques Deperthes Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacques Deperthes, described as a Franco-Swiss painter, was born in 1936 in Suresnes, France, and lives in Geneva. His connection to Geneva is also reflected in his education: from 1…
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Jacques Germain Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris in 1915, Jacques Germain is a French painter whose training takes him from the Académie Moderne to the Bauhaus in Dessau. He studies at the Académie Moderne, directed b…
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Jacques Villon Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jacques Villon is particularly associated with the Section d’or, whose public presentation he helped organise. His career thus links studio practice with dialogue…
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Jacques Yankel Documented profileFrance
The son of the painter Michel Kikoïne, Jacques Yankel (1920–2020) turned to painting after studying geology and working in science for several years. Settling in Toulouse in 1941, he…
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James Bishop Documented profileUnited States
The American painter James Daniel Bishop (1927–2021) lived and worked in Blévy, a village in the countryside, until his death. In his works on paper, intimacy and subjectivity seem m…
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James Coignard Documented profileFrance
As a painter, ceramicist, sculptor and printmaker, James Coignard developed a practice spanning several disciplines, with collage and paper materials recurring throughout his work. B…
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James Dixon Documented profileIreland
James Dixon (1887–1970), described as an Irish landscape painter, lived on Tory Island, off the coast of Donegal. According to the source, he did not begin painting until the age of 72.
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James Ensor Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter James Ensor, associated with the avant-garde of the early 20th century, made the mask a recurring motif, which appeared in his work in 1883 with Les Masques scand…
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James Rosenquist Documented profileUnited States
James Rosenquist (1933–2017), an American painter associated with Pop Art, transforms images from advertising and popular culture into material for visual art. Born in Grand Forks, N…
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Jan Baptist Lambrechts Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Jan Baptist Lambrechts, born in Antwerp in 1680, is associated with genre painting, particularly tavern scenes and festive gatherings. His half-brother Jeroom hel…
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Jan Frans van Bredael Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jan Frans van Bredael, also known as the Elder, was a Flemish painter born in Antwerp in 1686 and died in 1750. The eldest son of the painter Alexander van Bredael and Cornelia Sporc…
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Jan Hackaert Documented profileCountry to be documented
Landscape is the field with which Jan Hackaert is associated: he is known for his landscape paintings. Born in Amsterdam, he lived and worked there. Among the works reported as held…
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Jan Kubíček Documented profileCzechia
The Czech painter, sculptor and graphic artist Jan Kubíček (1927–2013) is associated with Constructivist and Concrete art. A documented example of his work is Progrese-Regrese (1974)…
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Jan Meerhout Documented profileCountry to be documented
Known by several forms of his name, including Johan Meerhoud and Jan Meerhoud, Jan Meerhout is presented as a Dutch painter; one source also describes him as a draughtsman. His activ…
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Jan Miel Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish painter active in the 17th century, Jan Miel is associated with the Bamboccianti group. Around 1636, he was in contact with Claude Lorrain; in 1640, he entered Andrea Sacch…
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Jan Miense Molenaer Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Jan Miense Molenaer, born and deceased in Haarlem, focused mainly on genre scenes, while also painting portraits and, more rarely, religious subjects. Trained in Fr…
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Jan Philip van Thielen Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jan Philip van Thielen (1618–1667), a Flemish painter born in Mechelen, specialised in flower painting. His work consists mainly of bouquets, arrangements and garlands, exploring dif…
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Jan Steen Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jan Steen is known for his scenes of domestic life, in which humour is combined with a moralising intent. Literary or theatrical references often appear in his paintings, giving thes…
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Jan Thorn Prikker Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch artist Jan Thorn Prikker, also known as Johan Thorn Prikker, Jan Thorn-Prikker, Johan Thorn-Prikker and J. Thorn Prikker, teaches Heinrich Campendonk at the School of Appli…
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Jan van Goyen Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter and draughtsman Jan van Goyen makes the sky a major element of his landscapes. From the 1630s onwards, he works in a more subdued palette, with light tones and mono…
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Jan Wiegers Documented profileNetherlands
Jan Wiegers, a Dutch painter and sculptor born in Kommerzijl and who died in Amsterdam, is particularly associated with the founding of the Groningen artists’ group De Ploeg in 1917.…
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Jan Wijnants Documented profileCountry to be documented
The 17th-century Dutch painter Jan Wijnants is known for his landscapes, a field in which his career developed from Haarlem to Amsterdam. Born in Haarlem in 1632, he died in Amsterda…
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Jan Wildens Documented profileCountry to be documented
Trained from a very young age under Pierre Verhulst, Jan Wildens entered the profession through apprenticeship: he was ten when he began studying painting. Enrolled as an apprentice…
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Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis Documented profileLatvia
The Latvian painter Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis, born in Ventspils in 1897 and who died in Toronto in 1964, developed a body of work spanning a wide range of subjects, from portraits…
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Jankel Adler Documented profileGermany · Poland
The Polish Jewish painter and printmaker Jankel Adler worked with subjects related to Judaism and, more occasionally, with abstract compositions. He experimented with different mater…
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Javier Vilató y Ruiz Documented profileSpain
A painter, printmaker and sculptor, Javier Vilató gives printmaking a place as important as painting. Born in Barcelona in 1921 and deceased in Paris in 2000, Xavier Vilató i Ruiz is…
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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Documented profileFrance
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, also known as Camille Corot, was born in 1796 and died in 1875. The works associated with him attest to a repertoire in which views of places, scenes wit…
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Jean-Baptiste Isabey Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey, born in Nancy in 1767 and deceased in 1855, developed a practice combining painting, miniature painting, drawing and watercolour. His trainin…
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Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer Documented profileFrance
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer’s flower painting belongs both to still life and to the decorative arts: his compositions are also known through prints and tapestry cartoons. Fleurs, fruits e…
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Jean Bertholle Documented profileFrance
Jean Bertholle, a French painter born in Dijon in 1909 and who died in Paris in 1996, moved through several approaches to painting: his initially figurative work turned towards a sen…
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Jean-Bertrand Pégot-Ogier Documented profileFrance
Painter and racing cyclist, Jean-Bertrand Pégot-Ogier is also listed as Jean-Bertrand Alexis Pégot-Ogier and Jean Pégot-Ogier; in sport, he is known as Jean Pégot. He is associated w…
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Jean-Charles Blais Documented profileFrance
Jean-Charles Blais came to prominence in the early 1980s with paintings made on reclaimed materials, particularly torn-down posters. Cardboard, cans, drums and newspaper pages are am…
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Jean Charles Duval Documented profileFrance
French painter, draughtsman and decorator, Jean-Charles Duval was born in Paris on 3 April 1880 and died there on 11 December 1963. The biographical entry describes him as an Orienta…
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Jean Chevolleau Documented profileFrance
Born in La Roche-sur-Yon in 1924 and died in Fontenay-le-Comte in 1996, Jean Chevolleau was a painter whose work addressed a range of subjects: portraits, nudes, horses, landscapes a…
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Jean Cocteau Documented profileFrance
Poet, painter, draughtsman, playwright and filmmaker, Jean Cocteau moved across several forms of expression throughout a career in which poetry stood alongside theatre, ballet and th…
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Jean Couty Documented profileFrance
Jean Couty, a French painter born in Saint-Rambert-l’Île-Barbe in 1907 and who died in Lyon in 1991, initially trained in architecture. In 1925, he entered the class of Sainte-Marie…
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Jean Degottex Documented profileFrance
The French abstract painter Jean Degottex (1918–1988) turned to abstraction from 1948 onwards and developed a gestural form of painting. After leaving school at the age of fifteen, h…
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Jean Delville Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter Jean Delville, born in Leuven in 1867 as Jean Libert, situated his practice within Symbolism while extending it through poetry, writing and art theory. He trained…
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Jean Dubuffet Documented profileFrance
The career of Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), born in Le Havre and died in Paris, is marked by several returns to artistic practice, interspersed with periods devoted to commerce. After t…
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Jean Dufy Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jean Dufy, born in Le Havre and deceased in Boussay, pursued a career that brought painting together with the decorative arts. After working for an import house de…
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Jean Fautrier Documented profileFrance
A painter, printmaker and sculptor, Jean Fautrier works the material in thick layers in the Otages series: Spanish white, oil and glue form a precisely documented pictorial process.…
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Jean Fous Documented profileFrance
Jean Fous (1901–1971), a French naïve painter born in Paris and deceased in L’Union, near Toulouse, chose popular festivities, village weddings and, with particular attention, flea m…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026