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Born October 15, 1776 • Kingston • New York
Died September 23, 1852 (aged 75) • Kingston • New York
Movement / Style Neoclassical art

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Benjamin West
Benjamin West
American painter
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French painter
Self-portrait, painting on canvas by Angelica Kauffmann; in the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Angelica Kauffmann
Swiss painter
Mengs, Anton Raphael: Portrait of Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano
Anton Raphael Mengs
Bohemian painter
François Gérard: Entry of Henry IV into the City of Paris, 22 March 1594
François Gérard
French painter
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Asmus Jacob Carstens
German painter
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Goethe in the Roman Campagna
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
German painter
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Gavin Hamilton
Scottish artist
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni: Susannah and the Elders
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Italian painter
Thomas Eakins: Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross  (The Gross Clinic)
Thomas Eakins
American painter
Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald
American artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Kehinde Wiley smiling at the 2021 LACMA Art + Film Gala, wearing a black tuxedo jacket with blue floral embroidery and a black bow tie.
Kehinde Wiley
American artist
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
American artist
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning
American painter and writer
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Chuck Close
American artist
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Alice Neel
American painter
Man Ray was a photographer, painter, and filmmaker who was the only American to play a major role in both the Dada and Surrealist movements.
Man Ray
American photographer and painter

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