Johannes Vermeer
( October 1632 – 15 December 1675)

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. He was not wealthy; at his death, his wife was left in debt.

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

The Lacemaker
c. 1669-71 
Oil on canvas
24 × 21 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064918

 Domenico Ghirlandaio
(2 June 1448 – 11 January 1494)

 

Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi  professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio (also spelt as Ghirlandajo), was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation" of the Florentine Renaissance, along with Verrocchio, the Pollaiolo brothers and Sandro Botticelli. 

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

 

An Old Man and His Grandson
c. 1490 
tempera on poplar panel 
62.7 x 46.3 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064987

Leonardo da Vinci
(15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519)

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci  was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded as a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works contributed to the development of European art to an extent rivalled only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo.

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

Mona Lisa
c. 1503-06 
Oil on poplar panel
79.4 x 53.4 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062370 

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/