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Isidore Rosenstock Documented profileFrance
Isidore Rosenstock (1880–1956), born in Strasbourg and deceased in Paris, developed a body of work in which watercolour held a privileged place. He exhibited regularly at the Salon d…
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Isidore Verheyden Documented profileBelgium
A Belgian painter of landscapes, portraits and still lifes, Isidore Verheyden began his artistic training in Brussels within an academic tradition before devoting himself to plein-ai…
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István Boldizsár Documented profileHungary
István Boldizsár (1897–1984), born in Orosháza, belonged to the tradition of the Nagybánya artists’ colony. As a Budapest student, he encountered this milieu in the late 1910s before…
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István Nyári Documented profileHungary
István Nyári, born in Budapest in 1952, graduated in advertising graphics from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts in 1977. He began making fine art in 1978 while also designing re…
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Italo Mus Documented profileItaly
Italo Mus, also known as Joseph-Italo Mus, was born in Châtillon on 24 April 1892 and died in Saint-Vincent on 15 May 1967. His first artistic training took place in his father’s wor…
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Ivan Aivazovsky Documented profileCountry to be documented
Marine painting is central to Ivan Aïvazovski’s reputation: sources attribute more than 6,000 works to him, about half of them seascapes. When painting, he worked from memory, guided…
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Ivan Contreras-Brunet Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1927, Ivan Contreras-Brunet made his first paintings in the early 1940s; he died in Vendôme, France, in 2021. After these early works, he attended courses…
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Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé Documented profileFrance
Ivan Choultsé’s painting focuses on natural motifs, with water and snow given particular prominence; winter landscapes, often Swiss, are especially frequent. Descriptions of his work…
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Ivan Pokhitonov Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Matrionovka in the Kherson governorate, Ivan Pokhitonov (1850–1923) initially followed a path outside art schools. After schooling in Elisavetgrad and Nikolaev, he studied ag…
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Ivan Puni Documented profileFrance
Jean Pougny, also known as Ivan Puni, was a French-Russian painter who died in Paris in 1956. During his first stay in Paris, beginning in 1910, he attended the Académie Julian and e…
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Ivan Rabuzin Documented profileCroatia
Croatian naïve painter Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) is placed in this movement by one source as early as 1946. Born in Ključ on 27 March 1921, he died in Varaždin on 18 December 2008. He…
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Ivan Theimer Documented profileFrance
Ivan Theimer, born in Olomouc in 1944, developed a practice as a sculptor, painter and draughtsman between France and Tuscany. He left Czechoslovakia in 1968. His language draws on t…
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J. Sultan Ali Documented profileIndia
J. Sultan Ali (1920–1990), born in Bombay, was an Indian modernist closely connected with the artistic community in Madras. He trained under D. P. Roy Chowdhury at the Government Col…
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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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Jack Vanarsky Documented profileArgentina · France
Jack Vanarsky develops a sculptural practice based on movement and the decomposition of forms: his kinetic sculptures, which he has been making since 1965, have been made from 1968 o…
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Jackie Battenfield Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jackie Battenfield, born in Pittsburgh in 1950, is an American artist whose paintings and prints explore natural phenomena. Graduating from Pennsylvania State University in 1971, she…
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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 Andries Beschey Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob Andries Beschey (1710–1786) was a Flemish painter whose career centred on Antwerp. He became a master of the city's Guild of Saint Luke in 1727 and its dean from 1766. He worke…
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Jacob de Backer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob de Backer was a painter and draughtsman associated with sixteenth-century Antwerp Mannerism. His biography remains uncertain: his dates, the stages of his training and the boun…
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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 Epstein Documented profileUnited Kingdom · United States
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959), born in New York to a Jewish family of Eastern European origin, studied in his native city and Paris before settling in London in 1905. His sculptures for…
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Jacob Jordaens Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678) was a Flemish painter whose career unfolded chiefly in Antwerp. Trained by Adam van Noort, he became a master of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1615–1616 and i…
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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 Salomonsz van Ruysdael Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael (about 1629–1681) was a landscape painter born in Haarlem. The son of Salomon van Ruysdael, he belonged to an important family within seventeenth-centur…
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Jacob Toorenvliet Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob Toorenvliet (1640–1719), born in Leiden, learned the fundamentals of his profession from his father Abraham, a glass painter and drawing master. His career took him to Italy an…
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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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Jacob van Ruisdael Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob van Ruisdael (around 1628–1682), born into an artistic family in Haarlem, was a leading Dutch landscape painter of the seventeenth century. His father Isaack was a painter, dea…
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Jacobus Linthorst Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacobus Linthorst was a Dutch painter whose career unfolded in Amsterdam, where he died in 1815. He joined the Guild of Saint Luke in 1789 and taught the still-life painter Jan Evert…
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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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Jacopo Fabris Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacopo Fabris (1689–1761) linked Venetian painting with the stages of northern Europe. His activity extended beyond easel pictures: theatrical scenery and stage arrangements occupied…
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Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine Documented profileFrance
Born in Rouen, Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751–1824) worked as a portrait and miniature painter. He studied with Jean-Baptiste Descamps at the art school in his native city, wher…
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Jacques Busse Documented profileFrance
Jacques Busse (1922–2004), a French painter born in Vincennes, began studying with Othon Friesz at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1942. With Jean-Marie Calmettes, Jean Cortot…
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Jacques Callot Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Lorraine printmaker Jacques Callot (1592–1635) began an apprenticeship with the Nancy goldsmith Demange Crocq in 1607. His career subsequently took him to Florence, where he refi…
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Jacques de Loustal Documented profileFrance
Loustal, the professional name of Jacques de Loustal, builds narratives through colour and a distinctive relationship between image and text. Trained in architecture, he began in the…
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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 Lipchitz Documented profileFrance · Lithuania · United States
Born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz in 1891 in Druskininkai, Lithuania, and dying in Capri in 1973, the sculptor known as Jacques Lipchitz developed a body of work whose early years were roote…
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Jacques Majorelle Documented profileFrance
Jacques Majorelle (1886–1962), born in Nancy, trained in his home city before attending the Académie Julian in Paris. Following a stay in Egypt, he arrived in Morocco in 1917 and set…
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Jacques Monory Documented profileFrance
Jacques Monory (1924–2018), a French painter born and deceased in Paris, worked for the art publisher Robert Delpire for ten years. Associated with Narrative Figuration from the 1960…
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Jacques Nam Documented profileFrance
Jacques Nam (1881–1974), the pseudonym of Jacques Lehmann, was a Parisian painter and illustrator particularly devoted to animals. He entered Jean-Léon Gérôme’s studio at the École d…
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Jacques-Philippe Caresme Documented profileFrance
Jacques-Philippe Caresme (1734–1796) worked in painting, drawing, pastel and watercolour. Exhibiting at the Salon from 1767, he undertook commissions for religious patrons and royal…
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Jacques Truphémus Documented profileFrance
Expressing light through colour is a central concern in the work of Jacques Truphémus (1922–2017). Portraits, still lifes, landscapes and café scenes offered ways to pursue this expl…
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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 Voyet Documented profileFrance
Born in Loudun in 1926 and died in Tours in 2010, Jacques Voyet pursued a multifaceted career as a painter, sculptor, set designer and stage director. His documented career includes,…
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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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Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (1809–1885), born and deceased in Frankfurt, trained at the Städel and then in lithography at Friedrich Carl Vogel’s establishment. With Jakob Becker he pr…
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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 Clarke Hook Documented profileCountry to be documented
James Clarke Hook (1819–1907) was an English painter and etcher. Admitted to the Royal Academy in 1836, he studied there for three years before exhibiting The Hard Task in 1839. A st…
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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