Francisco Pradilla Ortiz
(1848 - 1921)
 

Francisco Pradilla Ortiz was a prolific Spanish painter famous for creating historical scenes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Pradilla_Ortiz

La reina Juana la Loca, recluida en Tordesillas con su hija, la infanta Catalina
(Queen Juana la Loca confined at Tordesillas with her daughter, the Infanta Catalina)
1906
Oil on canvas
85 x 146 cm
The Prado, Madrid
https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/la-reina-juana-la-loca-recluida-en-tordesillas/2687023e-7056-4290-babf-8b2879f07827

“In keeping with his interest in Queen Juana “la Loca,” Pradilla painted this painting of the queen´s confinement in Tordesillas Castle, where she spent the rest of her life alongside the cadaver of her husband. Juana sits besides a window in a palace room with a Gothic fireplace. Lost in thought, she gazes at the viewer without noticing her daughter´s play. A lady in waiting and a servent on the right contemplate the scene with some sadness. An open door in the background offers a view of the coffin with the body of Felipe “el Hermoso.” Pradilla abandoned the grandiloquence of enormous history paintings from earlier decades in order to make a small cabinet painting. The studied setting, archeological and historical knowledge used here with a certain eclecticism of clothing and furnishings, are combined with a finished and very polished technique. Those aspects prevent this work from being considered a sketch for a larger painting on the same subject, making this a magnificent example of Pradilla´s new pictorial tendencies with regard to history paintings: small format works.”

 Pieter Bruegel the Elder
(c. 1525 - 1569)

 

Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder

Two Monkeys
1562
oil on oak wood panel
23 cm × 20 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin State Museums

 

The painting depicts two monkeys shackled to an iron ring beneath an archway. Behind them, in the background, lies the city of Antwerp. The monkeys are red-capped mangabeys and, due to Antwerp's status as a port city, were probably taken from their natural habitat by animal traders. 

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Monkeys_(Bruegel)

Lois Dodd
(b. 1927)
 

Lois Dodd (born 1927), is an American painter and educator. Dodd was a key member of New York's postwar art scene. She played a large part and was involved in the wave of modern artists including Alex Katz and Yvonne Jacquette who explored the coast of Maine in the latter half of the 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Dodd

View of Cemetery, Men's Shelter
2018
Oil on canvas
106,7 x 76,2 cm
The National Arts Club, N.Y.

Zhang Xiaogang
(b. 1958)

Zhang Xiaogang (张晓刚) is a contemporary Chinese symbolist and surrealist painter. Paintings in his Bloodline series are predominantly monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually with large, dark-pupiled eyes, posed in a stiff manner deliberately reminiscent of family portraits from the 1950s and 1960s. Recently, he also created sculptures, translating for the first time into three dimensions many characters of the sort seen in his "Bloodlines—Big Family" portrait series. These sculptures have featured in many exhibits and continue his work as one of China's leading, and most highly sought-after, contemporary artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xiaogang

Train Window - Red Plum
2010
Oil on canvas
220 x 140 cm
Today Art Museum
Bejing, China

Frank Holl
(1845 - 1888)
 

Francis Montague Holl RA was a British painter, specialising in somewhat sentimental paintings with a moment from a narrative situation, often drawing on the trends of social realism and the problem picture in Victorian painting. He was also, especially in his later years when the demand for social realism slackened, a portrait painter, mostly of official-type portraits of distinguished and therefore elderly men, including members of the royal family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Holl

Peeling Potatoes
c. 1880
Oil on canvas
35.6 x 45.4 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, CT, US

Martinus Rørbye
(1803 - 1848)
 

Martinus Christian Wesseltoft Rørbye was a Danish painter, known both for genre works and landscapes. He was a central figure of the Golden Age of Danish painting during the first half of the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinus_Rørbye

View from the Artist's Window
1825
Oil oncanvas
38 x 29.8 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS7452

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder
(1573 - 1621)
 

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder was a Flemish-born Dutch still life painter and art dealer. He is recognised as one of the earliest painters who created floral still lifes as an independent genre. He founded a dynasty of painters who continued his style of floral and fruit painting and turned Middelburg into the leading centre for flower painting in the Dutch Republic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosius_Bosschaert

Vase of Flowers in a Window
C. 1618
Oil on panel
64 x 46 cm
Mauritshuis, Den Haag, Netherlands
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/679-vase-of-flowers-in-a-window/