Rachel Ruysch 
(1664 – 1750)

 

Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch still-life painter from the Dutch Republic. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best documented female painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

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

Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop
1716
Oil on Canvas
48.5 x 39.5
Het rijksmuseum, Amsterdam    
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Still-Life-with-Flowers-on-a-Marble-Tabletop--570d1419506e38cb3916f640fe5a2328

 

 

 Willem Claesz Heda
(1593 – 1680)
 

Willem Claeszoon Heda was a Dutch Golden Age painter from the city of Haarlem devoted exclusively to the painting of still life. He is known for his innovation of the late breakfast genre of still life painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Claesz._Heda

Still Life with a Gilt Cup
1635
Oil on panel
87.8 x 112.6    
Het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Still-Life-with-a-Gilt-Cup--4617db9a8506653eb2437fc6bde903fd

 Pieter Claesz 
(1597 – 1660)
 

Pieter Claesz was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes. 
He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1620.

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

Still Life with a salt tub
1644
Oil on panel
52.6 x 44.1 cm
Het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Still-Life-with-a-Salt--2637bbf744ee4830a973b9c38e82b3c2

 <b>Clara Peeters</b>    
(1607 – 1676)
 

Clara Peeters was a Flemish still-life painter from Antwerp who worked in both the Spanish Netherlands and Dutch Republic.

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

 

Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels
C. 1615
Oil on panel
34.5 x 49.5 cm    
Mauritshuis collection
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/1203-still-life-with-cheeses-almonds-and-pretzels

Juan Sánchez Cotán
(1560 – 1627)

Juan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter, a pioneer of realism in Spain. His still lifes and bodegones were painted in an austere style, especially when compared to similar works in the Netherlands and Italy.     

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

Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber
c. 1602
Oil on canvas
67.8 cm × 88.7 cm    
San Diego Museum of Art
https://collection.sdmart.org/objects-1/info/1358

 <b>Caravaggio</b>
(1571 - 1610)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

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

Basket of Fruit
circa 1597
Oil on canvas 
67.5 x 54.5 cm
Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Piazza Pio XI, 2 Milano
https://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/opere-arte/schede/L0030-00020/

Henry Ossawa Tanner
(1859 - 1937)

Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

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

Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City
c. 1885
150.9 x 76.8 cm
Oil on canvas
The White House, Washington, United States
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/sand-dunes-at-sunset-atlantic-city-by-henry-ossawa-tanner