Millet represented farmers slaving in the fields in the exact same way that spiritual figures and mythological animals would have been painted previously.
During the artist’s lifetime, he was most known for his depictions of Frederick the Great, the Prussian ruler from the 18th century. Menzel was obsessed with historical authenticity, and every detail, right down to the buttons on a tunic.
Gustave Courbet is currently regarded as one of the most influential painters, having not only headed a notable movement but also greatly impacted a subsequent generation of artists.
Bonheur was among the very few female painters to earn international acclaim during her lifetime. She meticulously researched her topics, doing several preliminary drawings before adding paint to her canvases.
His themes, often seeming straightforward on the surface, addressed the issue of human struggles within an uncaring cosmos in their most solemn examples.
Eakins painted from life throughout his entire career, from the early 1870s up to the point that his health started to deteriorate around 40 years later, selecting as his subjects the inhabitants of his city of Philadelphia.
Ilya Repin is often regarded as the greatest Russian realism artist of the 19th century, a master of genre and history painting, a superb portraitist, and a man of profound psychological depth.
By the mid-1920s, Hopper’s mature style had already emerged and his later growth demonstrated a continuous refining of his vision. His late paintings are characterized by extraordinarily subtle spatial connections.
Wyeth’s paintings are nearly exclusively based on two locations: the landscape around his summer house in Maine and the Brandywine Valley in Pennsylvania.