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Nicholas Matthews Condy Documented profileCountry to be documented
The British painter Nicholas Matthews Condy, born in Plymouth in 1816, died in that city on 20 May 1851. He is associated with marine painting and numerous views of the Thames. His f…
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Niclas Lafrensen Documented profileSweden
Niclas Lafrensen the Younger, known in France as Nicolas Lavreince or Lavrince, was a Swedish artist born and deceased in Stockholm, in 1737 and 1807. Trained by his father, the mini…
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Nicola Carrino Documented profileItaly
Born in Taranto in 1932, Nicola Carrino develops a sculptural practice centred on form and space; he dies in 2018. His work is presented in a first solo exhibition when he is barely…
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Nicola De Maria Documented profileItaly
Italian artist and painter Nicola De Maria, born in 1954 in Foglianise, lives and works in Turin. In Regno dei Fiore, dated 1983, watercolour and ink on paper — 23 × 27.5 cm — are ac…
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Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom Documented profileNetherlands
Dutch landscape painter Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom (1805–1880) is associated with a lot titled *Eisvergnügen im Morgenlicht*. It is described as an oil on wood, signed lower left a…
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Nicolae Vermont Documented profileRomania
Nicolae Vermont was a Romanian artist trained by Theodor Aman in Bucharest and subsequently at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. He began contributing to the magazine Universul in 188…
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Nicolaes Maes Documented profileCountry to be documented
Nicolas Maes’s work moves successively from religious scenes to genre scenes, then to portraiture, in which he tended to specialise from around 1660. In works from his early period,…
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Nicolaes Molenaer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Klaes Molenaer, also known by the first names Nicolaes or Claes, was active as a painter in Haarlem from 1644 to 1676. The brother of painters Jan Miense and Bartholomeus Molenaer, h…
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Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem Documented profileCountry to be documented
Alongside Jan Both and Jan Asselijn, Nicolaes Berchem is associated with the second generation of Dutch Italianate landscape painters. He created idealised landscapes in which figure…
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Nicolas-Auguste Galimard Documented profileFrance
Nicolas-Auguste Galimard, generally known as Auguste Galimard, was born in Paris in 1813 and died in 1880. Trained by his painter uncles and subsequently in Ingres's studio, he pursu…
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Nicolas Baudesson Documented profileFrance
Nicolas Baudesson was a seventeenth-century French painter whose practice focused on still life and flower painting. Born in Troyes on 6 December 1611, he died in Paris on 4 Septembe…
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Nicolas Colombel Documented profileFrance
Nicolas Colombel’s career links Parisian training, Roman artistic circles and commissions from the French monarchy. Trained in Pierre Sève’s studio, he spent time in Rome, joining th…
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Nicolas de Largillière Documented profileFrance
The French painter Nicolas de Largillierre (1656–1746) is also referred to in the form Nicolas de Largillierre. A self-portrait listed under the title *Self-Portrait* is dated to aro…
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Nicolas de Staël Documented profileFrance
The works listed under the name Nicolas de Staël by the Art Institute of Chicago span several fields, from abstract compositions to the nude, as well as a work associated with the po…
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Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet Documented profileFrance
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet (1715–1793) was a French painter best known for his views of Paris and the Seine. Trained by his father, he exhibited at the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1…
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Nicolas Krycevsky Documented profileCountry to be documented
Nicolas Krycevsky’s career began with training between Kyiv and Prague: after studying at the University of Kyiv, he earned a diploma from the Prague School of Art Industry. Settling…
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Nicolas Lancret Documented profileCountry to be documented
Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743), born and deceased in Paris, trained in Pierre Dulin’s studio and subsequently with Claude Gillot. Following Watteau, he painted scenes of sociability and…
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Nicolas Poussin Documented profileFrance
Nicolas Poussin, born in Les Andelys in 1594 and deceased in Rome in 1665, was a French painter whose career unfolded mainly in Italy. Settling in Rome in 1624, he studied ancient re…
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Nicolas Toussaint Charlet Documented profileFrance
The French painter and printmaker Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet first came to notice through the lithograph La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas, presented as one of his earliest works and a…
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Nicolas Vleughels Documented profileFrance
Nicolas Vleughels (1668–1737), also known as Vleugels, was a French painter born in Paris who died in Rome. The son of Flemish portraitist Philippe Vleughels, he trained with Pierre…
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Nicolaus Berkhout Documented profileNetherlands
Nicolaus Berkhout, a Dutch painter born in 1813, devoted his work to landscape and genre scenes. After working in Hilversum and Amsterdam, he continued his career in Germany, notably…
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Nikifor Krynicki Documented profileCountry to be documented
Nikifor Krynicki, also called Epifaniusz Drowniak, was a Lemko painter associated with naive art. Little recognised for much of his life, he gained wider attention only later. He wor…
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Nikolaus Bruno Belau Documented profileGermany
Nikolaus Bruno Bellan, also known as Belau, was a German painter and draughtsman active during the first half of the eighteenth century. Documented works reveal different uses of dra…
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Nikolay Diulgheroff Documented profileBulgaria
Born in Bulgaria, Nicolay Diulgheroff (1901–1982) developed a practice in Turin spanning painting, architecture and the applied arts. He studied in Vienna, Dresden and at the Bauhaus…
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Nikos Kessanlis Documented profileGreece
Nikos Kessanlis (1930–2004), born in Thessaloniki and deceased in Athens, progressively expanded the means of producing an image. He trained with Nikos Nikolaou, among others, then s…
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Nino Longobardi Documented profileItaly
Born in Naples in 1953, Nino Longobardi trained himself through contact with artists, critics and gallery owners. Exchanges with Carlo Alfano and Joseph Beuys, alongside his lasting…
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Noel Leaver Documented profileIreland
Noel Harry Leaver (1889–1951) grew up in Burnley, where his family settled a few months after his birth in Yorkshire. He won several prizes while studying at the Royal College of Art…
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Norbert Bisky Documented profileGermany · Germany
Norbert Bisky brings the visual legacy of his childhood in East Germany into dialogue with contemporary upheavals. Born in Leipzig in 1970, he studied in Berlin from 1994 to 1999, no…
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Norbert Kricke Documented profileGermany
Norbert Kricke (1922–1984), a German sculptor, pursued a practice of drawing on paper, which the sales catalogue places throughout his life, alongside his spatial sculptures made of…
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Norbert Tadeusz Documented profileGermany
German figurative painter Norbert Tadeusz was born in Dortmund in 1940 and died in Düsseldorf in 2011. He studied painting at the Werkkunstschule in Dortmund with Gustav Deppe from 1…
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Norman Bluhm Documented profileUnited States
Norman Bluhm was an American painter whose career connected architecture, European experience and gestural abstraction. He studied under Mies van der Rohe, but abandoned architecture…
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Ode Bertrand Documented profileFrance
Ode Bertrand, born in Paris in 1930, came to visual art from classical dance and developed a practice within geometric abstraction and concrete art. A niece of Aurélie Nemours, she w…
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Odilon Redon Documented profileFrance
Odilon Redon’s work is distinguished by a shift from drawings and prints devoted to imaginary, generally macabre subjects to oil painting and pastel, which he took up after 1880 with…
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Odilon Roche Documented profileFrance
French painter Odilon Roche, born in 1868 and died in 1947, is associated with Turnerinnen, a watercolour over pencil, signed lower right, measuring 26 × 20 cm and framed. This work…
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Ohara Koson Documented profileJapan
Known as Koson, Ohara Matao (1877–1945) devoted much of his print production to kachō-e, the genre of bird-and-flower imagery. He initially worked with publishers Akiyama Buemon and…
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Olaf Wieghorst Documented profileUnited States
Olaf Wieghorst (1899–1988), born in Viborg, Denmark, emigrated to the United States in 1918. His experience with horses preceded and informed his painting: he served with a mounted c…
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Oleg Vassiliev Documented profileUnited States
Born in Moscow in 1931, Oleg Vassiliev (1931–2013) pursued a long career as a children’s book illustrator alongside his artistic practice. From the 1950s to the 1980s, he worked in t…
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Olivier Debré Documented profileFrance
For Olivier Debré, abstraction linked to landscape takes the form of “fervent abstraction”: painting symbolises the emotion felt in front of the landscape. In 1953, he abandons figur…
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Olivier O. Olivier Documented profileFrance
Born Pierre Marie Olivier in Paris in 1931, Olivier O. Olivier studied philosophy at the Sorbonne before entering art school. A member of the Collège de pataphysique from 1955, he jo…
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Olivier Sery Documented profileFrance
Olivier Séry, a French painter, was born in Le Havre in 1906 and died in 2000. His biography associates him with subjects of wind and rain. It links this reputation to La Bourrasque,…
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Olle Bærtling Documented profileSweden
Olle Bærtling (1911–1981), a Swedish painter and sculptor who also worked in textile art, worked in several media. The von Bartha gallery describes his works as producing a pronounce…
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Olympe Arson Documented profileFrance
Known as Marie Alexandrine Olympe Arson, the artist is said to have been born in 1814 and to have still been alive after 1870. One source describes her as a French flower painter. A…
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Omar Ba Documented profileSenegal
Born in Senegal in 1977, Omar Ba develops a painting practice that engages with contemporary political and social questions. His work addresses inequalities of wealth and power, migr…
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Omar Onsi Documented profileLebanon
Omar Onsi, born in Beirut in 1901 and deceased there in 1969, contributed to the development of modern painting in Lebanon. Trained by Khalil Saleeby, he continued studying in Paris…
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Opy Zouni Documented profileGreece
Born in Cairo in 1941 and deceased in 2008, Opy Zouni was a Greek artist who lived and worked in Athens from 1963 onwards. According to Artsper, her family roots lie in Crete and San…
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Óscar Domínguez Documented profileSpain · France
Óscar Domínguez’s career encompasses Surrealist painting, illustration and objects presented in exhibitions. His first Surrealist paintings date from 1932; his works also include the…
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Oscar Gauthier Documented profileFrance
Oscar Gauthier (1921–2009), a French painter born in Fours, in the Nièvre, and who died in Nevers, developed an abstract body of work attentive to the rhythms and phenomena of nature…
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Oscar Spielmann Documented profileAustria
Trained in Vienna and then in Prague under Karl Krattner, Oscar Spielmann settled in Algiers in 1930 with his wife, the painter Eugénie Tchec, after discovering Algeria. His work als…
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Oskar Larsen Documented profileAustria
Born in Vienna in 1882 and died there in 1972, Oskar Larsen is presented as an Austrian painter and graphic artist. A notice states that he studied at the Akademie der bildenden Küns…
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Oskar Laske Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter and architect Oskar Laske was born in Czernowitz in 1874 and died in Vienna in 1951. A work entitled “Die Ssrjétenskaja in Odessa” combines watercolour, gouache…
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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