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Jean Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721) - France (Valenciennes)
Rococo, Rococo
Jean-Antoine Watteau (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan vato] baptised October 10, 1684 – died July 18, 1721), better known as Antoine Watteau, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the less severe, m...... |
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William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) - United Kingdom (London)
Classicism, Rococo
William Hogarth FRSA (/ˈhoʊɡɑːrθ/ 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", perhaps best known being his moral series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake...... |
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Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792) - United Kingdom (Plympton)
Rococo, Neo-Classicism, Baroque
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (/ˈrɛnəldz/ 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specialising in portraits. According to John Russell, he was one of the major European painters of the 18th Century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was a f...... |
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) - United Kingdom (Sudbury)
Rococo, Classicism, Romanticism
Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light pal...... |
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Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699 - 1779) - France (Paris)
Rococo, Baroque
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (French: [ʃaʁdɛ̃] 2 November 1699 – 6 December 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characte...... |
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (2007 - 1770) - Italy (Venice)
Rococo, Rococo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈtjɛːpolo] March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, together with...... |
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Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (1712 - 1793) - Italy (Venice)
Rococo, Rococo
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko ˈgwardi] October 5, 1712 – January 1, 1793) was an Italian painter of veduta, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting. In the early part of his career he collab...... |
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François Boucher (1703 - 1770) - France (Paris)
Rococo, Rococo
François Boucher (French: [fʁɑ̃swa buʃe] 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18t...... |
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Sebastiano Ricci (1659 - 1734) - Italy (Belluno)
Rococo, Rococo
Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 1659 – 15 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting. He was born in Belluno, the son of Andreana and Livio Ricci. I...... |
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 - 1805) - France (Tournus)
Rococo, Rococo
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting. Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy. He is generally said to have formed his own talent at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, were encouraged by a Lyonnese artist named Grandon, or ...... |
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806) - France (Grasse)
Rococo, Rococo
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French: [ʒã onoʀe fʀaɡonɑʀ] 4 April 1732 – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting ...... |
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Maurice Quentin De La Tour (1704 - 1788) - France (Saint-Quentin)
Rococo, Rococo
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour. He was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, the third son of a musician, François de La Tour, a Laonnois and the son of a master mason,...... |
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Pietro Longhi (1701 - 1785) - Italy (Venice)
Rococo, Rococo
Pietro Longhi (1702 or November 5, 1701 – May 8, 1785) was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life. Pietro Longhi was born in Venice in the parish of Saint Maria, first child of the silversmith Alessandro Falca and his wife, Antonia. He adopted the Longhi last name when he began to paint. He was initially taught by the Veronese pain...... |
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Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695 - 1736) - France (Valenciennes)
Rococo, Rococo
Jean-Baptiste Pater (December 29, 1695 – July 25, 1736) was a French rococo painter. Born in Valenciennes, Pater was the son of sculptor Antoine Pater and studied under him before becoming a student of painter Jean-Baptiste Guide. Pater then moved to Paris, briefly becoming a pupil of Antoine Watteau in 1713. Watteau, despite treating Pater badly, ...... |
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (2007 - 1770) - Italy (Venice)
Rococo, Rococo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈtjɛːpolo] March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, together with...... |
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Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766) - France (Paris)
Rococo, Rococo
Jean-Marc Nattier (17 March 1685 – 7 November 1766), French painter, was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655–1703), a miniaturist. He is noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire. He received his first instruction from his fa...... |
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Antoine Pesne (1683 - 1757) - France (Paris)
Rococo, Baroque
Antoine Pesne (French pronunciation: [pɛːn]) (29 May 1683 – 5 August 1757) was a French-born court painter of Prussia. Starting in the manner of baroque, he became one of the fathers of rococo in painting. His work represents a link between the French school and the Frederican rococo style. Born in Paris, Pesne first studied art under his father a...... |
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Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784) - Scotland (Edinburgh)
Rococo, Rococo
Allan Ramsay (13 October 1713 – 10 August 1784) was a prominent Scottish portrait-painter. Allan Ramsay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the eldest son of Allan Ramsay, poet and author of The Gentle Shepherd. From the age of twenty he studied in London under the Swedish painter Hans Hysing, and at the St. Martin's Lane Academy leaving in 1736 for R...... |
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Corrado Giaquinto (1703 - 1765) - Italy (Molfetta)
Rococo, Rococo
Corrado Giaquinto (8 February 1703 – 18 April 1765) was an Italian Rococo painter. He was born in Molfetta. As a boy he apprenticed with a modest local painter Saverio Porta, (c1667–1725), escaping the religious career his parents had intended for him. By October 1724, he left Molfetta, and along with his contemporaries Francesco de Mura (1696–1784...... |
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Alexandre François Desportes (1661 - 1743) - France (Champigneul)
Rococo, Rococo
Alexandre-François Desportes (24 February 1661 — 20 April 1743) was a French painter and decorative designer who specialised in animals. Desportes was born in Champigneulle, Ardennes. He studied in Paris, in the studio of the Flemish painter Nicasius Bernaerts, a pupil of Frans Snyders. During a brief soujourn in Poland, 1695–96, he painted portrai...... |
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Rosalba Carriera (1675 - 1757) - Italy (Venice)
Rococo, Rococo
Rosalba Giovana Carriera (12 January 1673 – 15 April 1757) was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. It is for this that she was able to establish a career in portraiture. Carriera would later became known for her pastel work, a medium appealing to Rococo styles for its soft edges and flattering su...... |
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Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov (1730 - 1808) - Russia (Moscow)
Rococo, Rococo
Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov (Fedor Rokotov) (Russian: Фёдор Степа́нович Ро́котов) (1736–December 24, 1808) was a distinguished Russian painter who specialized in portraits. Fyodor Rokotov was born into a family of peasant serfs, belonging to the Repnins. Much in his biography is obscure. He studied art in Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. After buyi...... |
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Donato Creti (1671 - 1749) - Italy (Cremona)
Rococo, Rococo
Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal neoclassical styl...... |
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Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757 - 1825) -
Rococo, Neo-Classicism
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Луки́ч Боровико́вский, Ukrainian: Володи́мир Лýкич Боровикóвський, Volodýmyr Lúkyč Borovykóvs’kyj) July 24 O.S. (August 4, N.S.) 1757 – April 6 O.S. (April 18, N.S.) 1825) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin who dominated portraiture in Russia at the turn of the 19th century. Vladimir Borovikov...... |
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