Edwin Landseer
(1802 - 1873)

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. 

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

The Poor Dog (The Shephard’s Grave)
1829
Oil on panel
32.5 x 38.5 cm
Private collection

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
(1618 - 1682)
 

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo  was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively realistic portraits of flower girls, street urchins, and beggars constitute an extensive and appealing record of the everyday life of his times. He also painted two self-portraits, one in the Frick Collection portraying him in his 30s, and one in London's National Gallery portraying him about 20 years later. In 2017–18, the two museums held an exhibition of them.

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

The Good Shepherd
Ca. 1660
Oil on canvas
123 x 101 cm
Museo del Prado
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-good-shepherd/28013a12-7a77-4a4f-9b26-85422f4d7afe

Aelbert Cuyp
(1620 - 1691)
 

Aelbert Jacobszoon Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch Golden Age painters, producing mainly landscapes. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp (1594–1651/52), he is especially known for his large views of Dutch riverside scenes in a golden early morning or late afternoon light.

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

Schafherde auf der Weide (Herd of Sheep at Pasture)
between circa 1645 and circa 1655
49,3 x 74,3 cm
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Thomas Gainsborough
(1727 - 1788)

Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.  

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

Coastal Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock
Between 1783 and 1784
Oil on canvas
63,5 × 76,2 cm
Yale Centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:28

Charles Jacque

(1813 - 1894)

 

Charles-Émile Jacque was a French painter of Pastoralism and engraver who was, with Jean-François Millet, part of the Barbizon School. He first learned to engrave maps when he spent seven years in the French Army.

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

Landschap met schapen en herderin (Landscape with sheep and shepherdess)

Oil on canvas

30 x 19,9 cm

Rijksmuseum Twenthe

https://collectie.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl/zoeken-in-de-collectie/detail/id/d8970d37-3740-5806-91f4-d4b7172ea90b

Cornelius Van Leemputten
(1841 - 1902)
 

Cornelius Van Leemputten was a Belgian painter known for his scenes of farmyard animals and landscapes with shepherds and grazing sheep.

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

Landschap met herder en kudde schapen (Landscape with Shepherd and flock of sheep)
Before 1882
Oil on canvas
94 x 143 cm
M Leuven, Belgium
https://www.mleuven.be/collectie

Antonio Travi
(1613 - 1668)

Antonio Travi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Sestri, near Genoa, was generally known as Il Sordo di Sestri on account of his deafness. He was originally a color-grinder to Bernardo Strozzi, who instructed him in design, and he afterwards studied landscape painting under Gottfried Wals. His son Antonio was also a landscape painter. 

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

Adorazione dei pastori (Adoration of the shepherds)
1625
Oil on canvas
102 x 152 cm
Musei di Strada Nuova - Palazzo Bianco, Genova, Italia
https://www.museidigenova.it/it/adorazione-dei-pastori-travi-circa-1625

Herman Johannes van der Weele

(1852 - 1930)

 

Herman Johannes van der Weele was a Dutch painter of the second generation of the Hague School. He is the father of Dutch entomologist Herman Willem van der Weele (1879–1910).  

He received advice from Anton Mauve and Johannes Bosboom.  Mauve's influence can be detected in van der Weele's paintings. His compositions have the same simplicity and his choices of subjects are very much like those of Mauve. He painted flocks of sheep, sheep barns, stable interiors, meadows with cows, sand drifts, foresters with horses, farmers plowing with an ox team, milkmaids tending cows, street scenes with coaches, and sand quarries.

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

Herder met schaapskudde (Shepherd with a Flock of Sheep)

Oil on canvas

58,7 x 86,6 cm

Private collection

Wright Barker
(1863 - 1941)
 

Wright Barker was British Painter. He started his early working life as a weft worker in a local worsted textile mill, but by 1891 had established himself as an artist successful enough to exhibit a painting at a Royal Academy show.  His animal studies paintings are still popular today.

https://www.notjusthockney.info/barker-wright/

A shepherd with his flock in a Winter landscape
1919
Oil on canvas
91 x 121,9 cm
Sold by Christie’s on 13 December 2012 (price realised: 25,000 GBP)
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5631470

 Johann Baptist Hofner
(1832 - 1913)
 

Johann Baptist Hofner was born in 1832 at Aresing near Schrobenhausen. Starting in 1847 Hofner attended the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where he was taught by Karl Theodor von Piloty. Because of the close proximity he early on cultivated contacts with the family von Lenbach, which stems fom Schrobenhausen. Especially with Franz von Lenbach he developed a friendship marked by mutual artistic exchange. In the years from 1854 to 1856 the two painters lived together at Hofners birthplace Aresing, resulting in the establishment of the "Aresinger Artist Colony".

Wiki in French or German:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Baptist_Hofner
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Baptist_Hofner

The little shepherdess
1866
Oil on canvas
120 x 90 cm
Private collection (sold at Christie’s)

 No Wikipedia page (yet) for the next artist, so he must be really unknown

Charles T. Phelan
(B. 1840)
 

Charles T. Phelan was born in New York in 1840. Landscape painter and pupil of Frederick Rondel (1826-1892) who was best remembered as the teacher of Winslow Homer.

https://www.askart.com/artist/Charles_T_Phelan/34603/Charles_T_Phelan.aspx

Shäfer mit seinen Herde (Shepherd with his flock)
1886
Oil on canvas
41 x 51 cm
Private collection
https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/7101943/

 Jan Hackaert
(1628 - 1685)

<i>Jan Hackaert was a Dutch Golden Age painter. </I>

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

A Wooded Landscape with a Shepherd and his Herd on a Path near a Puddle
17 century
Oil on canvas
79,7 x 96,4 cm
Private collection

Robert Seldon Duncanson

(1821 - 1872)

 

Robert Seldon Duncanson was a 19th-century American landscapist of European and African ancestry. Inspired by famous American landscape artists like Thomas Cole, Duncanson created renowned landscape paintings and is considered a second generation Hudson River School artist. Duncanson spent the majority of his career in Cincinnati, Ohio and helped develop the Ohio River Valley landscape tradition. As a free black man in antebellum America, Duncanson engaged the abolitionist community in America and England to support and promote his work. Duncanson is considered the first African-American artist to be internationally known. He operated in the cultural circles of Cincinnati, Detroit, Montreal, and London. The primary art historical debate centered on Duncanson concerns the role that contemporary racial issues played in his work. Some art historians, like Joseph D. Ketner, believe that Duncanson used racial metaphors in his artwork, while others, like Margaret Rose Vendryes, discourage viewers from approaching his art with a racialized perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Duncanson

Landscape with Shepherd

1852

Oil on canvas

82,6 x 122,6 cm

The MET

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10777

David Teniers the younger
(1610 - 1690)
 

David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output. He was an innovator in a wide range of genres such as history painting, genre painting, landscape painting, portrait and still life. He is now best remembered as the leading Flemish genre painter of his day. Teniers is particularly known for developing the peasant genre, the tavern scene, pictures of collections and scenes with alchemists and physicians.

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

A shepherd playing the flute to his flock
Oil on panel
43 x 58 cm
Private collection (sold by Christie’s 2018 for 56,250 GBP)
https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6182806?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intObjectID=6182806&from=salessummary&lid=1

Thomas Moran
(1837 - 1926)

Thomas Moran was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in particular, the American West.

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

Shepherdess watching her flock
Ca. 1867
Oil on canvas
101 x 167 cm
Private collection

Jean-François Millet
(1814 - 1875)
 

Jean-François Millet was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, conte crayon drawings, and etchings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-François_Millet

The Sheepfold, Moonlight
From 1856 until 1860
Oil on panel
45,3 x 63,4 cm
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

https://art.thewalters.org/detail/24760/the-sheepfold-moonlight-2/

I posted this one before: 

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/22113147-art-lovers---picture-of-the-day---december-2021-moonlight#comment_242321014

So why not a second one by Millet:

Shepherdess with her Flock
1864
Oil on canvas
81 x 101 cm
Musée d’Orsay, Paris

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/bergere-avec-son-troupeau-341

Richard Ansdell

(1815 - 1885)
 

Richard Ansdell RA was a British painter of animals and genre scenes.

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

Gathering the Flock
1870
Oil on canvas
79.5 by 203cm
Private collection

 

 

 August Fink
(1846 - 1916)

August Fink, also August Finck was a German landscape painter and art teacher.
August Fink trained as a merchant, came to the United States in 1859 and worked there as a merchant until 1866. He then studied private painting with Adolf Stademann, Eduard Schleich the Elder and from 1872 with Adolf Lier, later with Josef Wenglein.
From 1878 he worked in Munich as a freelance artist. From 1874 he took part in exhibitions in Munich, Berlin and Nuremberg. In 1889 he was appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich. He was an honorary member of the Munich Academy. In 1905 he received a gold medal at the annual exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace.
He mainly painted landscapes from the area around Dachau. He also created ceiling paintings with hunting scenes in Herrenchiemsee Palace.

Wiki only in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Fink_(Maler)

Shepherd with his Flock in the Evening Light
By 1916
Oil on canvas
71 × 104  cm
Private collection

Franz Courtens
(1854 - 1943)
 

Baron Franciscus Eduardus Maria (Franz) Courtens was a Belgian painter.
He was a leading figure in the Dendermonde School, famous for his paintings of nature and landscapes. An essay on him by Fernand Khnopff was published in The International Studio 34 (1908). Courtens was professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (NHISKA) in Antwerp from 1904 till 1924.

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

Le berger dans la dune (Shepherd in the dunes)
Oil on canvas
Private collection

Henry Ossawa Tanner
(1859 - 1937)

Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist and 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. His painting Daniel in the Lions' Den (1895, location unknown) was accepted into the 1896 Salon, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Tanner's Resurrection of Lazarus (1896, Musée d'Orsay, Paris) was purchased by the French government after winning the third-place medal at the 1897 Salon. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

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

The Good Shepherd
1902
Oil on Canvas
68,5 x 81,2 cm
Zimmerli Art Museum
https://zimmerli.emuseum.com/objects/29780/the-good-shepherd
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-good-shepherd/XwEBl987n60UJQ?hl=nl

Josef Thoma
(1828–1899)

Josef Thoma was born September 28, 1828 in Vienna.
He was probably trained by his father before completing his studies at the Academy of Vienna. After completing his training, he settled as a landscape painter in the Austrian capital.
The most frequent motifs in his paintings, watercolors and drawings were alpine landscapes, usually Zillerstal, Pustertal and Steyrtal. He was also well known for his cityscapes of Ischl and Salzburg.
Clearly influenced by the Romantic movement and in particular by artists like Eugène Delacroix or Caspar David Friedrich, Thoma knew how to paint a skillfully manipulated light, just like large natural spaces rendered with poetry and striking verism.

Wiki only in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Thoma
https://www.anticstore.art/94041P

Schafhirte mit seiner Herde am Heimweg (Shepherd with his flock on the way home)
Before 1899
Oil on canvas
41,5 x 58 cm
Private collection

Ernst Adolph Meißner
(1837 - 1902)

Ernst Adolph Meißner, born in Dresden, was a German animal and landscape painter, member of the Munich School.

Wiki only in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Adolph_Meißner

Schäfer mit Herde in Winterlandschaft. (Shepherd with herd in a winter landscape)
Before 1902
Oil on canvas
64 x 101 cm.
Private collection

 Charles Sprague Pearce
(1851 - 1914)

Charles Sprague Pearce was an American artist born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1873 he became a pupil of Léon Bonnat in Paris, and after 1885 he lived in Paris and at Auvers-sur-Oise. He painted Egyptian and Algerian scenes, French peasants, and portraits, and also decorative work, notably for the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress at Washington. He received medals at the Paris Salon and elsewhere, and was made Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, decorated with the Order of Leopold, Belgium, the Order of the Red Eagle, Prussia, and the Order of the Dannebrog, Denmark.

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

Le retour du troupeau (The return of the herd)
C. 1899
Oil on canvas
22,6 x 32,5 cm
Musée Franco-Américain, Blérancourt, France
https://museefrancoamericain.fr/collection/objet/le-retour-du-troupeau-vers-1899

Pieter Brueghel the Younger
(1564 - 1638)

 

Pieter Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger was a Flemish painter, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work as well as his original compositions. The large output of his studio, which produced for the local and export market, contributed to the international spread of his father's imagery.
Traditionally Pieter Brueghel the Younger has been nicknamed "de helse Brueghel" or "Hell Brueghel" because it was believed he was the author of several paintings with fantastic depictions of fire and grotesque imagery. These paintings have now been attributed to his brother Jan Brueghel the Elder.

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

De goede herder (The Good Shepherd)
1616
Oil on canvas
41 x 47 cm
Royal Museum of fine Arts of Belgium
https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/nl/de-collectie/pieter-ii-brueghel-de-goede-herder

 Jan Brueghel the Younger
(1601 - 1678)

 

Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger) was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder, and grandson of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, both prominent painters who contributed respectively to the development of Renaissance and Baroque painting in the Habsburg Netherlands. Taking over his father's workshop at an early age, he painted the same subjects as his father in a style which was similar to that of his father. He regularly collaborated with leading Flemish painters of his time.

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

The bad shepherd
1616
Oil on panel
73,7 x 104 cm
Private collection

Vincent van Gogh
(1853 - 1890)

 

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. Not commercially successful, he struggled with severe depression and poverty, eventually leading to his suicide at age thirty-seven.

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

Shepherd with a Flock of Sheep
1884
Oil on canvas
66,3 x 128,6 cm
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
http://www.museosoumaya.org/

Anton Mauve

(1838 - 1888)

 

Anthonij "Anton" Rudolf Mauve was a Dutch realist painter who was a leading member of the Hague School. He signed his paintings 'A. Mauve' or with a monogrammed 'A.M.'. A master colorist, he was a very significant early influence on his cousin-in-law Vincent van Gogh.

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

 

The Return of the Flock, Laren

C.1886-87

Oil on canvas

Philadelphia Museum of Art

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/102977

 Rosa Bonheur
(1822 - 1899)

 

Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century

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

The Highland Shepherd
1859
Oil on canvas
49 x 63 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Winslow Homer
(1836 - 1910)

 

Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art.
Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively in watercolor, creating a fluid and prolific oeuvre, primarily chronicling his working vacations.

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

Shepherdess Tending Sheep
1878
Watercolor over graphite with touches of opaque watercolor on cream, thick, rough textured paper
29 x 50 cm
Brooklyn Museum
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2807

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
(1803 - 1862)
 

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was a Dutch landscape artist and lithographer. He concentrated on extensive wooded landscapes in summer and winter, a theme deducted from the four season series. Like other Romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, Koekkoek painted the motif of tiny figures within imposing, majestic natural environments to contrast humble humanity with the greatness of creation.

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

A shepherd and his flock in a wooded landscape
1851
Oil on panel
39,5 x 50 cm
Private collection
https://www.simonis-buunk.com/artwork/barend-cornelis-koekkoek-painting-a-shepherd-and-his-flock-in-a-wooded-landscape/8700/

 A new month, a new theme:

Elizabeth Jane Gardner
(1837- 1922)

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life. She studied in Paris under the figurative painter Hugues Merle (1823–1881), the well-known salon painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911), and finally under William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). After Bouguereau's wife died, Gardner became his paramour and after the death of his mother, who bitterly opposed the union, she married him in 1896. She adopted his subjects, compositions, and even his smooth facture, channeling his style so successfully that some of her work might be mistaken for his. In fact, she was quoted as saying, "I know I am censured for not more boldly asserting my individuality, but I would rather be known as the best imitator of Bouguereau than be nobody!"

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

The Shepherd David,
ca. 1895;
Oil on canvas,
60 1/2 x 41 3/8 in.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20005
https://nmwa.org/art/collection/shepherd-david/