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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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Pierre II Mignard Documented profileFrance
The French painter and architect Pierre II Mignard, known as the Chevalier Mignard, belonged to a family of artists. Born in Avignon in 1640, he was the eldest son of Nicolas Mignard…
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Alexander Kanoldt Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter Alexander Kanoldt, born in Karlsruhe in 1881 and died in Berlin in 1939, combined magical realism with still lifes of ordinary objects in the early 1920s; he also…
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Louis Tinayre Documented profileFrance
The career of Louis Tinayre brings together drawings and photographs made on expeditions, large-scale panoramic displays and mural painting. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 14 March 186…
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Augustin Fils Documented profileCountry to be documented
A painter and miniaturist as well as an aeronaut, Augustin fils pursued two distinct practices in parallel: his miniatures were based on silhouettes painted in watercolour, cut out a…
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Walt Disney Documented profileUnited States
American producer, director, screenwriter, actor and animator Walter Elias Disney — known as Walt Disney — initially develops his work around drawing and animated films before expand…
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Lavinia Fontana Documented profileItaly
Lavinia Fontana, a painter born in Bologna in 1552 and who died in Rome in 1614, also known as Lavinia Zappi, pursued a practice that combined portraiture with religious painting. In…
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Tom Christopher Documented profileUnited States
The American artist Tom Christopher, born in 1952, is represented here by Messenger at Park, an acrylic on canvas dated 2000 and measuring 61.5 × 101.5 cm. The painting bears the sig…
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Pier Leone Ghezzi Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter, draughtsman and caricaturist Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674–1755), active mainly in Rome, combined decorative and religious painting with the production of caricatures,…
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Henri Mège Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Romans, in the Drôme department, in 1904, Henri Mège died in Chambéry in 1984. He learned to paint from his mother, Isabelle Mège, who was also a painter. Pursuing a military…
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Peter Spens Documented profileCountry to be documented
Peter Spens (born in 1961) is the artist of Night Games, Beach Volleyball, an oil painting on panel dated 2016. The work’s description states that it is signed, dated and inscribed “…
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Richard Hambleton Documented profileCanada · United States
The Canadian painter and graffiti artist Richard Hambleton, associated with street art, conceived of his work as a conceptual practice carried out both in public space and for galler…
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Lucio Muñoz Documented profileSpain
The Spanish painter Lucio Muñoz Martínez (1929–1998), born and deceased in Madrid, worked with burnt paper, wood and canvas. Perforations, tears, folds and incisions were among the w…
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Surendran Nair Documented profileIndia
Indian artist Surendran Nair, born in 1956 in Kerala, in southern India, studies painting at the School of Fine Arts in Trivandrum, then pursues postgraduate studies at the Faculty o…
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Charles-Antoine Coypel Documented profileFrance
A painter, playwright and art critic, Charles Antoine Coypel — also known as Charles Coypel — belonged to a family of Parisian painters: he was the son of Antoine Coypel and the gran…
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Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim Documented profileCountry to be documented
Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim, generally known as Eduard Meyerheim, was a Prussian painter born in Danzig in 1808 and died in Berlin in 1879. He received his first lessons from his fath…
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Abel Lauvray Documented profileFrance
After studying law at his family’s request, Abel Lauvray enrolled at Cormon’s studio in Paris. In 1893, he accompanied Claude Monet on the Seine aboard his studio boat, which the pai…
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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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Luis Tomasello Documented profileArgentina
Luis Tomasello’s research focuses on the effects of reflected light: in his Atmosphères chromoplastiques, white cubes arranged on a white ground set the colours of shadow and light i…
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Giovanni Battista Vanni Documented profileCountry to be documented
Giovan Battista Vanni trained under Aurelio Lomi, Matteo Rosselli, Jacopo da Empoli, Cristofano Allori and Giulio Parigi. From 1624 to 1632, he worked in Rome, where his activity is…
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Max Klinger Documented profileGermany
Max Klinger, an engraver, draughtsman and sculptor, first trained in Karlsruhe in 1874–1875, then at the Berlin Academy of Arts, where he studied under Karl von Gussow. After complet…
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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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Albert Contreras Documented profileCountry to be documented
American painter Albert Contreras, born in 1933 and deceased in 2017, is represented in the available information by an abstract composition titled “Composition with Orange Circle No…
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Herbert Bayer Documented profileAustria · United States
Herbert Bayer was born in Austria in 1900 and died in the United States in 1985; his practice encompassed typography, photography, design, painting, architecture and sculpture. This…
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Heinrich Neppel Documented profileGermany
Heinrich Neppel, a German painter born in Munich in 1874 and who died in that city in 1936, is associated with landscape painting. According to Invaluable’s biographical entry, he st…
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David Ostrowski Documented profileGermany
German painter David Ostrowski, born in Cologne in 1981, develops a body of work centred on pictorial experimentation. His painting tests gesture, accident and imperfection across va…
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Richard Mudariki Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1985, Richard Mudariki is a full-time painter who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. His contemporary paintings contain social commentary on various African issues.…
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Léon Spilliaert Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter, draughtsman, illustrator and lithographer Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) developed a body of work in which night, empty expanses and self-portraiture occupy a centr…
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Ferdinand Richardt Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Danish-American painter and illustrator Ferdinand Richardt devoted a substantial part of his work to landscapes and architectural views. His journey from Denmark to the United St…
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Henri Decaisne Documented profileBelgium
Henri de Caisne, a Belgian painter born in Brussels in 1799 and died in Paris in 1852, practised history painting, genre painting and portraiture. After receiving the prize for the a…
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Regina Bogat Documented profileUnited States
Regina Bogat, an American abstract artist born in 1928, is represented by an untitled work from 1964, executed in oil and collage on cardboard. The work measures 53.5 × 38.5 cm. A de…
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Yi Eungro Documented profileFrance · South Korea
Lee Ungno’s practice develops at the intersection of ink painting and calligraphy, which informs his creative process through both signs and formal elements. In 1920, he learns the f…
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Kenneth Price Documented profileUnited States
American artist and printmaker Kenneth Price devoted most of his work to ceramic sculpture. He is particularly associated with abstract forms shaped from fired clay. His sculptures a…
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Roberto Fabelo Documented profileCuba
Roberto Fabelo Pérez, a Cuban artist born in 1950, is represented by works on different supports and in distinct formats. Esmeralda en el muro del malaca is a watercolour on paper, s…
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Klaus Staudt Documented profileGermany
At the beginning of his career, Klaus Staudt made serial reliefs in white wood, before developing spatial and shadow reliefs, followed by two-layer reliefs. Born in 1932 in Otterndor…
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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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Marie Vassilieff Documented profileFrance
The painter and theatre designer Marie Vassilieff—also known as Maria Ivanovna Vassilieva—was born in Smolensk in 1884 and died in 1957. Her career brings together painting, decorati…
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Allan McCollum Documented profileUnited States
Born in Los Angeles in 1944, Allan McCollum developed a body of work that was presented in solo exhibitions from the early years of his career: the first took place in 1970, and the…
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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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Constant-Joseph Desbordes Documented profileFrance
A portraitist and genre painter, Constant Joseph Desbordes is associated with a presumed portrait of Auguste Barre de Saint-Fare, a lieutenant in the lancers of the Royal Guard. Date…
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Attila Kovács Documented profileGermany · Hungary
Koordination p3-13-1975 is an acrylic painting on canvas mounted on wood, measuring 100 × 100 cm; the entry describes it as signed and dated, and as bearing the name Kovács on the re…
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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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Hansjörg Wagner Documented profileGermany
Hansjörg Wagner, a German sculptor, painter and draughtsman born in Berlin in 1930 and who died in Munich in 2013, developed a body of work that brings together sculpture, painting a…
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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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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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Manoucher Yektai Documented profileIran · United States
The Iranian painter Manoucher Yektai (1922–2019) is represented here by a still life dated 1973. Still Life with Cyclamens, signed and dated oil on canvas, measures 40.5 × 51 cm. The…
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Zygmunt Waliszewski Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Polish painter Zygmunt Waliszewski was born in Saint Petersburg in 1897 and died in Krakow in 1936. A Don Quixote catalogued under his name is described as watercolour and gouach…
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Seund Ja Rhee Documented profileSouth Korea
She favours woodblock printing and makes her prints by hand; sometimes, she presses the carved blocks directly onto the paper. Her visual vocabulary draws on the symbols and characte…
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George Engleheart Documented profileCountry to be documented
George Engleheart is a miniature painter whose clientele includes aristocrats and numerous courtiers of the English court; he paints twenty-five portraits of George III. Having studi…
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Joachim Bandau Documented profileGermany
Joachim Bandau, a German painter and sculptor born in Cologne in 1936, develops a practice that combines sculpture and painting. After studying at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts…
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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