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Facts

Born March 20, 1811 • Virginia
Died July 7, 1879 (aged 68) • Kansas City • Missouri
Notable Works “Fur Traders Descending the Missouri”
Movement / Style Düsseldorf school

Photos

George Caleb Bingham: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
The Jolly Flatboatmen, engraving after a painting by George Caleb Bingham, 1846.
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The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
Zorn, Anders: Dagmar
Anders Zorn
Swedish painter and etcher
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Portrait of John Singer Sargent in profile, wearing a suit and tie, facing to the right with a trimmed beard and short hair.
John Singer Sargent
Italian-born American painter
self-portrait by Grant Wood
Grant Wood
American artist
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Lilly Martin Spencer
American painter
William Morris Hunt.
William Morris Hunt
American painter
Durand, Asher B.: The First Harvest in the Wilderness
Asher B. Durand
American artist
Portrait of José Herrera
Peter Hurd
American painter
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Henry Inman
American painter
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Gari Melchers
American artist
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Walter Ufer
American painter
Worthington Whittredge: The Trout Pool
Worthington Whittredge
American painter
Bierstadt, Albert
Albert Bierstadt
American painter
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David Octavius Hill
Scottish painter
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez
Spanish painter

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