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Fortunato Depero Documented profileItaly
Fortunato Depero (1892–1960), born in Fondo in the Trentino, studied in Rovereto before entering Futurist circles in Rome in 1913. His exploration soon extended beyond painting: volu…
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Francesco Foschi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Francesco Foschi trained with Francesco Mancini in Fano from 1726 before moving to Rome in 1729. His first known commission, in 1739, concerned illustrations for Ovid’s Metamorphoses…
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Francesco Guardi Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Venetian painter Francesco Guardi was born and died in Venice (1712–1793). His elder brother Gian Antonio trained him and took over the family workshop after their father’s death…
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Francesco Jacovacci Documented profileCountry to be documented
Francesco Jacovacci was born in Rome on 30 January 1838 and died there on 26 June 1908. He collaborates with Cesare Fracassini on the frescoes of the Basilica of Saint Lawrence outsi…
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Francesco Lojacono Documented profileCountry to be documented
Francesco Lojacono (Palermo, 1838–1915) was a leading figure in nineteenth-century Sicilian landscape painting. Initially trained by his father Luigi and Salvatore Lo Forte, he conti…
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Francesco Paolo Diodati Documented profileCountry to be documented
Francesco Paolo Diodati (1864–1940) is associated with the Neapolitan school; a notice devoted to his painting particularly highlights his genre scenes and relates them to the teachi…
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Francesco Paolo Michetti Documented profileCountry to be documented
The CulturaItalia entry attributes Al pascolo to Michetti and dates it to 1895. It locates the work at the Pinacoteca Patiniana in Castel di Sangro, whose painting collection provide…
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Francesco Podesti Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Francesco Podesti, born in Ancona in 1800 and deceased in Rome in 1895, was associated with academic circles and took part in Italian artistic life in the first h…
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Francesco Solimena Documented profileCountry to be documented
Francesco Solimena (1657–1747) held an important position in Neapolitan history and religious painting. Trained by his father Angelo and subsequently by Francesco di Maria in Naples,…
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Francesco Zanin Documented profileCountry to be documented
Titled Der erste Luftballon über Venedig, this oil on relined canvas measures 134 × 75.5 cm at the top and 55 cm at the bottom; it is signed and bears, on a cartouche, an inscription…
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Francesco Zuccarelli Documented profileCountry to be documented
Italian painter Francesco Zuccarelli (1702–1788) is also listed under the name Francesco Zuccherelli. The Art Institute of Chicago lists a Portrait of an Old Man, with no date indica…
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Francisco Bajen Documented profileSpain
Francisco Bajén (San Clemente, 1912–Albi, 2014) was a Spanish painter whose artistic career developed in France’s Tarn region. A former Republican army officer, he went into exile in…
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Francisco Bores Documented profileSpain
Born in Madrid in 1898 and died in Paris in 1972, Francisco Bores was a Spanish painter whose career unfolded between these two cities. In 1916, he entered the academy of Cecilio Pla…
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Francisco Toledo Documented profileMexico
Francisco Toledo (1940–2019) worked across painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics. He began his artistic training in Mexico City at seventeen and moved to Paris after…
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Francky Boy Documented profileFrance
Painting, sculpture, film and stage design intersect in the career of Francky Boy, the pseudonym of François Sévéhon, born in Paris in 1954. Self-taught, he made around forty short a…
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Franco Sarnari Documented profileItaly
Self-taught as a painter, Franco Sarnari studied advertising before becoming involved in Rome’s artistic life. In 1964, he founded Il Girasole, a self-managed collective open to diff…
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François Boucher Documented profileFrance
François Boucher, a painter born in Paris in 1703 and who died in 1770, pursued a practice that extended well beyond painting: he also designed theatre sets, tapestries, book illustr…
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François de Troy Documented profileFrance
François de Troy, a French painter from a family of artists from Languedoc, was born in Toulouse in 1645 and died in Paris in 1730. His father and grandfather also pursued profession…
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François Dilasser Documented profileFrance
His career was marked early on by Gauguin, and later by Roger Bissière and the informal abstraction of the École de Paris. Painting and drawing bear witness to an interplay between o…
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François Gall Documented profileFrance · Hungary
His training began with Aurel Popp and continued in Rome, at the Accademia di San Luca in Umberto Coromaldi’s studio, before he entered the Collegium Hungaricum. His hometown organis…
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François Morellet Documented profileFrance
François Morellet (Cholet, 1926–2016) was a French artist associated with geometric abstraction. Turning to abstraction in 1950, he developed a deliberately restricted vocabulary of…
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Franjo Mraz Documented profileCountry to be documented
Franjo Mraz (1910–1981) is a Croatian painter. For one work, the catalogue records provenance at the Prodajna Galerija in Belgrade, followed by a private collection in Switzerland, w…
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Frank Moss Bennett Documented profileUnited Kingdom
The British painter Frank Moss Bennett, born in Liverpool in 1874, worked in portraiture as well as historical scenes and architectural subjects. He studied at the Slade School of Fi…
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Frank Stella Documented profileUnited States
Frank Philip Stella (1936–2024), an American artist, conceives of the image as an object rather than as the representation of something. He sums up this position in a concise formula…
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Frank-Will Documented profileFrance
Frank-Will (1900–1950), born Frank William Boggs in Nanterre, was a French painter and watercolourist, and the son of the painter Frank Boggs. He abandoned architectural studies to p…
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Frans de Hulst Documented profileCountry to be documented
Dune or river landscapes, often dominated by fortified towers, characterise Frans de Hulst’s painting. His early works evoke the technique of Salomon van Ruysdael; this resemblance h…
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Frans Francken I Documented profileCountry to be documented
Frans Francken I, also known as Frans Francken the Elder, was a Flemish painter born in 1542 and died in 1616. The father of Frans II, known as the Younger, he is often confused with…
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Frans Francken the Younger Documented profileCountry to be documented
Frans II Francken, a Flemish painter born in 1581 and died in 1642, known as the Younger, belonged to a family of artists: the son of Frans I and nephew of Hieronymus and Ambrosius I…
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Frans Hogerwaard Documented profileNetherlands
Frans Hogerwaard, also known as François Hogerwaard, participated in Dutch artistic life in the early twentieth century. He is documented in an exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Mu…
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Frans Snyders Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Frans Snyders initially devoted himself to flower and fruit still lifes, before also turning his work towards animal painting. His repertoire includes market stal…
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Frans Stamkart Documented profileNetherlands
Born in 1874 and died in 1947, Frans Stamkart is identified as a Dutch artist by the auction catalogue documenting his work here. He is represented in it by an untitled charcoal draw…
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František Kupka Documented profileCountry to be documented
From 1911 onward, Kupka paints works with no reference to the world of objects. Verticality and circular movement are among his lines of inquiry: the Centre Pompidou dates the beginn…
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Franz Beer Documented profileAustria
Franz Beer, an Austrian abstract painter born in Vienna in 1929, studied architecture, painting, restoration and printmaking at the city’s Academy of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1950, bef…
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Franz Borghese Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and sculptor Franz Borghese (1941–2005), born in Rome according to a sale notice, is notably documented by Il cavaliere. This oil on canvas, dated 1969, is signed…
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Franz Courtens Documented profileBelgium
Franz Courtens, also known as Frans Courtens, was a Belgian painter born in Termonde in 1854 and died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in 1943. His work, associated with Belgian Impressionis…
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Franz de Paula Ferg Documented profileUnited States
The Austrian painter, draughtsman and etcher Franz de Paula Ferg, also known as Francis Paul Ferg, was born on 2 May 1689. His work focuses mainly on scenes of everyday life: markets…
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Franz Grabmayr Documented profileAustria
In the work of Franz Grabmayr, an Austrian painter born in 1927 in Pfaffenberg, near Obervellach, landscape emerges from prolonged observation of the subject and takes shape through…
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Franz Kamlander Documented profileAustria
The recurring presence of animals, and especially cows, distinguishes the work of Franz Kamlander, produced at the Haus der Künstler in Gugging over nearly twenty years. He often dre…
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Franz Kernbeis Documented profileAustria
Franz Kernbeis (1935–2019), an Austrian artist, was the youngest in a family of seven children. After eight years of primary school, he worked in his parents’ agricultural concern. H…
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Franz Kline Documented profileUnited States
The American painter Franz Kline (1910–1962), also known as Franz Josef Kline, is listed in the Art Institute of Chicago directory with several dated works. These include Untitled (1…
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Franz Marc Documented profileCountry to be documented
A journey to France, particularly to Paris, in 1903 fostered his interest in Impressionism; according to one source, he also discovered Japanese art there. His first solo exhibition…
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Franz Maria Jansen Documented profileGermany
Franz M. Jansen, a German painter and graphic artist, was born in Cologne on 4 February 1885. He is associated with Rhenish Expressionism, an artistic movement of the 1910s. Sources…
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Franz Müller-Gossen Documented profileGermany
Lot descriptions present him as having studied at the Düsseldorf Academy and state that he also worked in England. A lot offered under his name is described as a signed oil on panel,…
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Franz Pauly Documented profileGermany
The German painter Franz Pauly (1837–1913), identified as a landscape painter of the Düsseldorf School, drew his subjects from several regions of Europe. Born in Sankt Aldegund on th…
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Franz Priking Documented profileGermany
Franz Priking, a German painter and lithographer, was born in Mülheim in 1929 and died in Oppède in 1979. His birth name is also given in the form Pricking. He developed a style of p…
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Franz Probst Documented profileAustria
Franz Probst, an Austrian painter born in Litzlberg in 1903 and deceased in Vienna in 1980, is documented by a work entitled “Schiffe”. This pastel on paper, signed at the lower righ…
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Franz Quaglio Documented profileGermany
The painter Franz Quaglio, born in Munich in 1844 and deceased in Wasserburg am Inn in 1920, is represented here by two small-format works, executed a few years apart. In Ruhende Mar…
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Franz Radziwill Documented profileGermany
The German painter Franz Radziwill (1895–1983) developed his work between an expressionist inheritance and a realism imbued with strangeness. Contacts with Schmidt-Rottluff and Hecke…
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Franz Roubaud Documented profileCountry to be documented
Also known as Franz Alexeïevitch Roubaud and Франц Алексеевич Рубо, Franz Roubaud is described as a history and battle painter of the Russian Empire, of French origin. His work combi…
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Franz Skarbina Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter Franz Skarbina (1849–1910), born and deceased in Berlin, developed his career within the capital’s artistic life, combining artistic practice, teaching and collect…
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Countries reflect citizenships recorded in the source and may be incomplete. Reference profiles open the indicated source and do not imply that works are available at the gallery.
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