Anglo-American artist Benjamin West was born in the colony of Pennsylvania, but took up residence in London, becoming President of the Royal Academy
Artist Milton William Hopkins worked as a decorative painter, farmer, educator, and merchant
The academically-trained French artist Jacques Gamelin specialized in scenes of antiquity, religion, war, and death, after studying under David and becoming court painter to Pope Clement the XIV
Ernest Hennings belonged to the Taos Society, a group of painters based in that New Mexican town during the 1900s
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres considered himself a strict Neoclassical painter, while subsequent generations have seen hints of Romanticism in his work
Artist Irving Couse produced a large output of Western art, local inhabitants, and concentrating on the Indians of the American Southwest and that region’s wild grandeur
Bostonian Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, turned to technology after an unsuccessful career as a painter
German artist Heinrich Fuger was academically trained and produced classical portraiture and historical painting over his lifetime
Gerard Curtis Delano left the East to work on ranches, where he created art of the American West
This American pulp fiction illustrator was a peerless practitioner of his trade, rendering magazine images and book cover art in a classic mid-century realistic style, and producing many testaments on canvas to the American West as well
This Mixed-Media Masterpiece from Barrett Evon and the Studios of Art Chateau is a nuanced vision of "Vivien Leigh as Anna Karenina" from Leo Tolstoy's 1877 Classic novel
Henry Scott was a respected marine and landscape painter
Painter of the outdoors Phillip Goodwin produced wonderful scenes of wilderness, animals, and nature in all her glory
This large, Modern Pop-Art tableau from Barrett Evon is a nuanced version of Peter Paul Rubens's 17th Century Masterpiece
Catalan artist Mariano Fortuny was a painter of the Orientalist genre, history, and martial themes in a style that wavered between Rococo and the Romantic
Scottish animal painter Archibald Thorburn was most renowned as an artist of birds, and his pictures, mainly done in watercolors, were sought after by country squires and hunters
Emile Munier was a student of French Academic artist William Bouguereau and produced an array of portraits, history scenes, and landscapes
Academically-trained classical artist Lev Chistovsky did not succumb to the many anti-classical movements and adhered to representational art throughout his career
Cartographer-turned-pastoral-painter Paul Sandby helped found the Royal Academy and began to produce landscapes showing the changes in the Highland country due to war
French artist and sculptor Rosa Bonheur was adept at rendering animals in her paintings and made careful study of her non-human subjects before committing them to canvas or parchment