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Ferdinando Buonamici Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Florentine painter Ferdinando Buonamici lived from 1820 to 1892 and belonged to the circle of the Caffè Michelangiolo, alongside Fattori, Signorini and Diego Martelli. Volunteeri…
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Fermín Aguayo Documented profileSpain · France
Spanish painter Fermín Aguayo was born in 1926 in Sotillo de la Ribera, in the province of Burgos, and died in 1977. He approached painting as a self-taught artist before beginning h…
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Fernand Herbo Documented profileFrance
Fernand Herbo, a French painter born in 1905 and who died in 1995, devoted a significant part of his work to maritime and river subjects, boats and ports. Water and port atmospheres…
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Fernand Léger Documented profileFrance
Born in 1881 and deceased in 1955, Fernand Léger is represented in the Art Institute of Chicago entries by works whose titles and dates trace a documented trajectory spanning several…
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Fernand Legout-Gérard Documented profileFrance
Fernand Legout-Gérard left his employment as a tax collector in 1887 to devote himself to painting. Journeys through Brittany, documented in his sketchbooks, accompanied a lasting in…
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Fernand Lematte Documented profileFrance
Fernand Lematte trained at the École des beaux-arts in Paris in Alexandre Cabanel’s studio. His career developed in part through the Paris Salon, where he regularly presented his com…
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Fernando Botero Documented profileColombia · France · Italy
The Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, also identified by his full name, Luis Fernando Botero Angulo, was born in Medellín in 1932 and died in Monaco in 2023. In 1957, *…
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Ferruccio Ferrazzi Documented profileItaly
The sale catalogue describes a signed, dated and titled oil on canvas depicting Herta Ottolenghi and her son Astolfo, measuring 126 × 151 cm. According to this catalogue, a label on…
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Ferruccio Manganelli Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Ferruccio Manganelli, born in 1883 and died in 1968, trained at the Royal Professional School of Colle di Val d’Elsa while also attending evening drawing classes…
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Filippo De Pisis Documented profileItaly
Natura morta con giacinto e garofani is an oil on canvas, signed and dated “de Pisis 36” at the lower right; it measures 130.3 × 97 cm. Its provenance is given as a Swiss private col…
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Filippo Lauri Documented profileCountry to be documented
Filippo Lauri was born in Rome in 1623 into the family of Flemish painter Balthasar Lawers, whose name was Italianised as Lauri. Trained by his brother Francesco and subsequently Ang…
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Filippo Palizzi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Filippo Palizzi (1818–1899), an Italian painter born in Vasto and died in Naples, brings landscape together with close observation of animals in their natural environment. His intere…
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Filippo Vacchetti Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Carrù, in the province of Cuneo, in 1873, Filippo Vacchetti died in Turin in 1945. The documented works are still lifes: a composition of yellow, red and green peppers, signe…
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Fleury Joseph Crépin Documented profileFrance
Music also plays a part in his life, and he composes pieces for the municipal brass band. From 1930, presenting himself as a healer, he draws closer to the spiritist movement and mee…
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Florencio Molina Campos Documented profileArgentina
Florencio Molina Campos (1891–1959) was an Argentine artist known for his often humorous depictions of the Pampa and gaucho life. His first exhibition of paintings took place at the…
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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 Nenci Documented profileCountry to be documented
Francesco Nenci, a native of Anghiari who died in Siena in 1850, was a Tuscan painter and illustrator working in the Neoclassical tradition. Following initial training with Tommaso M…
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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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Franck Innocent Documented profileFrance
Franck Innocent (1912–1983), born in Sahurs and deceased in Rouen, developed a painting practice closely connected with Normandy. From the age of fifteen he attended Marcel Couchaux’…
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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 Gentilini Documented profileItaly
Franco Gentilini (1909–1981), born in Faenza and deceased in Rome, was an Italian painter also active in printmaking, illustration and ceramics. He attended evening classes at the To…
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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 Bonvin Documented profileFrance
François Bonvin (1817–1887), a French painter and etcher, studied at the Paris drawing school and later attended the Académie Suisse. He worked as a police clerk until 1850 while dev…
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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-Joseph Navez Documented profileBelgium
François-Joseph Navez (1787–1869), born in Charleroi, was a Belgian painter associated with Neoclassicism. Following his training in Brussels, he won first prize for painting at the…
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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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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