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Also Known As Abbot of Toba • Kakuyū
Born 1053 • Japan
Died 1140 (aged 87) • Japan
Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
Japanese artist
Ogata Kōrin: Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)
Ogata Kōrin
Japanese artist
Sōtatsu: Genji monogatari: Miotsukushi
Sōtatsu
Japanese artist
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Tokiwa Mitsunaga
Japanese painter
Kawanabe Kyōsai: Inept Dilettante
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Japanese painter
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Tosa Mitsunobu
Japanese painter
Hishikawa Moronobu: Scene in the Yoshiwara
Hishikawa Moronobu
Japanese printmaker
Portrait of Daidō Ichii by Kichizan with a laudatory inscription by Shōkai Reiken (not reproduced here), hanging scroll, ink on paper; in the Nara National Museum, Japan
Kichizan
Japanese painter
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Ennin
Buddhist priest
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
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Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Xia Gui
Chinese artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
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Rudolf Bauer
German-born artist
George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist
Rowlandson, Thomas: Comet
Thomas Rowlandson
English painter and caricaturist

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