Timeline | Romanticism to modern art
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1796 – 1875
- French painter associated with Realism and the Barbizon School, known for his landscape paintings. Notable works include The Cathedral of Chartres and Recollection of Mortefontaine.
Honoré Daumier
1808 – 1879
- French painter and sculptor known for his oil paintings, lithographs, and politically charged satirical cartoons. Notable works include Third-Class Carriage, The Laundress, Woman Pleading For Justice.
Jean-François Millet
1814 – 1875
- French realist painter, renowned for his portrayals of peasant life. Notable works include The Gleaners, The Angelus, The Sower, The Sheepfold, The Coast of Gréville.
François Bonvin
1817 – 1887
- French Realist painter, known for his oil paintings, prints, still lifes, portraits, and interior scenes. Notable works include Still Life, Attributes of Music, and Self-Portrait of the Artist Etching.
Gustave Courbet
1819 – 1877
- French painter, founder of the Realism movement. Notable works include The Stone Breakers, Burial at Ornans, The Painter’s Studio, and The origin of the world.
Carl Larsson
1853 – 1919
- Swedish Realist painter, particularly in watercolor paintings. He was also a writer. Notable works include Esbjörn and Mamma’s and the small girls’ room.
William Bliss Baker
1859 – 1886
- American Realist painter known for works such as Hiding in the Haystack and Reflections in the Pool.
Jean-Léon Gérôme
1824 – 1904
- French painter known for his historical paintings and opposition to Impressionism. Notable work includes Phryne Before the Areopagus.
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
1828 – 1882
- British painter, poet, and co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Notable works include Lady Lilith and Beata Beatrix.
Edwin Longsden Long
1829 – 1891
- British painter known for his genre, religious, and portrait paintings. Notable works include The Babylonian Marriage Market, The Finding of Moses, Alethe Attendant of the Sacred Ibis in the Temple of Isis at Memphis, The Chosen Five.