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Jean-François de Troy
1679 – 1752
- French painter associated with the Rococo style. Known for historical, decorative, genre, and portrait paintings. Notable works: The Garter and The Declaration of Love.
Jean-Antoine Watteau
1684 – 1721
- French Rococo painter known for his depictions of theatrical subjects. Notable works: Gilles, Mezzetin, The Signboard of Gersaint, and The Italian Comedians.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696 – 1770
- Italian painter renowned for his frescoes and decorative paintings. Notable works: “Allegory of the Planets and Continents,” “Wealth and Benefits of the Spanish Monarchy under Charles III,” and “Perseus and Andromeda.”
William Hogarth
1697 – 1764
- British painter, pioneer of British genre painting, satire, comic strips, engraving. Notable works: The Painter and his Pug, The Shrimp Girl, Marriage à la Mode.
Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin
1699 – 1779
- French Rococo painter known for still-life paintings, oil paintings, and pastel portraits. Notable works: Still Life with Ray and Basket of Onions, Self-Portrait with a Visor, The White Tablecloth, Still Life with a Hare, A Basket of Wild Strawberries.
Francois Boucher
1703 – 1770
- French painter known for Rococo style and romantic decorative works with Chinese influences. Notable works: Diana Bathing, Madame de Pompadour, The Birth of Venus, Chinese Garden, The Three Graces.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
1704 – 1788
- French Rococo painter renowned for his portraits, especially in pastel, known for their elegance and delicacy. Notable works include Madame de Pompadour, Portrait of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, Portrait of Claude Charles Deschamps.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1723 – 1792
- British painter, court painter, leading figure in the British art reform movement, with contributions to literature and education. Specialized in portrait painting. Notable works: Self-portrait in 1750, Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers, Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children, The Infant Samuel, Portrait of Wang-y-tong.
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
1724 – 1780
- French Rococo painter and sculptor. Notable works include Costumed Dancers Performing in a Garden Tavern, Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, Paris Street Show.
Thomas Gainsborough
1727 – 1788
- British painter renowned for portraits and landscapes, and one of the founders of the Royal Academy of Arts. Notable works include The Morning Walk, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews and Ann Leyborne Leyborne.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1732 – 1806
- French Rococo painter known for genre scenes, landscapes, portraits, and historical subjects. Skilled in etching and a student of Chardin. Notable works include The Swing, The lock, Young Girl Reading.