Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)  

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.

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

The Coalmen
circa 1875
Oil on canvas
66 x 54 cm
Musee d’Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/les-dechargeurs-de-charbon-69336 

Joachim Beuckelaer
(1533 - 1570)  
 

Joachim Beuckelaer  was a Flemish painter specialising in market and kitchen scenes with elaborate displays of food and household equipment. His development of the genre of market and kitchen scenes was influential on the development of still life art in Northern Europe as well as Italy and Spain. He also painted still lifes with no figures in the central scene. He further added the staffage (i.e. the figures) or the garments in works of other local painters, such as Anthonis Mor.

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

A market/kitchen scene
1563    
Oil on oak
111 x 164 cm
Residenzgalerie, Salzburg
https://www.domquartier.at/en/residenzgalerie/

 Pieter Aertsen
(1508 - 1575) 

Pieter Aertsen called Lange Piet ("Tall Pete") because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism. He is credited with the invention of the monumental genre scene, which combines still life and genre painting and often also includes a biblical scene in the background. He was active in his native city Amsterdam but also worked for a long period in Antwerp, then the centre of artistic life in the Netherlands.

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

The Cook
1559
Oil on panel
85 x 171 cm
Musei di Strada Nuova, Genova, Italy
https://www.museidigenova.it/en/cook-0

 Francisco Goya
(1746 - 1828) 
 

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Western art.

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

The Knife Grinder (The grindler)
circa 1790
Oil on canvas
68 x 50 cm
Museum of fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/8654/

 Petrus Christus 
(1410/1420 - 1475/1476) 

Petrus Christus was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became the leading painter after the death of Jan van Eyck. He was influenced by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden and is noted for his innovations with linear perspective and a meticulous technique which seems derived from miniatures and manuscript illumination. Today, some 30 works are confidently attributed to him. The best known include the Portrait of a Carthusian (1446) and Portrait of a Young Girl (c. 1470); both are highly innovative in the presentation of the figure against detailed, rather than flat, backgrounds.

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

A Goldsmith in His Shop
1449
Oil on oak panel
100.1 x 85.8 cm
The MET, N.Y.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459052

 Carl Spitzweg
(1808 - 1885) 

Carl Spitzweg  was a German romantic painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era.

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

The Alchemist
ca. 1860
Oil on canvas
36.8 x 43 cm
Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, United States
https://www.msoe.edu/grohmann-museum/the-collection/

 François-Marius Granet
(1775 - 1849) 
 

François Marius Granet was a French painter, primarily of architectural subjects.

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

The Alchemist
1800s 
Oil on canvas
61 x 48.3 cm
The Science History Institute, Philadelphia, US.
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/mk61rh526