Johann Walter-Kurau
(1869 - 1932)
 

Johann Walter-Kurau, also known as Jānis Valters (Latvian) or Johann Walter, was a Latvian painter. He studied art at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg with Janis Rozentāls and Vilhelms Purvītis, and built up an oeuvre that ranged from the academic realism of the 1890s, through a style inspired by Impressionism and Expressionism, to the verge of abstraction with a peculiar non-objective vision of nature late in his career. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Walter-Kurau

 The Market in Jelgava 
1897
Oil on canvas
154 x 230 cm
Latvian National Museum of Art, Rīga, Latvia
https://lnmm.gov.lv/en/latvian-national-museum-of-art

Sybrand van Beest
(1610 - 1674)
 

Sybrand van Beest was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

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

Hog Market 
1638
Oil on canvas
44 x 68 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/541-hog-market

Lajos Deák Ébner
(1850 - 1934)
 

Lajos Deák Ébner was a Hungarian painter.
Many of his paintings are realistic portrayals of life around Szolnok. From 1887 to 1922, he was head of the "Budapest School of Painting for Women" (Budapesti Női Festőiskola). In 1890, he and Károly Lotz painted frescoes at Tihany Abbey. From 1895 to 1899 he executed more frescoes at the Kunsthalle Budapest.

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

 Poultry Market in Szolnok
1885
Oil on canvas 
132 x 96 cm
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
https://en.mng.hu/artworks/51739/

 Francisco Díaz de León
(1897 - 1975)
 

Francisco Díaz de León was a Mexican graphic artist, notable for pioneering much of modern Mexican graphic arts. He spent his childhood around books and when he studied art in Mexico City, he specialized in engraving and illustration. He spent his career illustrating books, magazines and more, reviving techniques such as dry point and introducing new techniques and styles such as the use of color and linoleum printing. He was also a noted arts education, directing several schools including the Escuela Mexicana de las Artes del Libro (now the Escuela Nacional de Artes Gráficas), which he founded. He was a founding member of the Academia de Artes and a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. In 1969 he received the Premio Nacional de Artes for engraving. 

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

 Indians at the Market 
1922
Oil on canvas 
100 x 122 cm
Reading Public Museum, Reading, United States
https://museoblaisten.com/Obra/1854/Indias-en-d-a-de-mercado

Frederic Whitaker
(1891 - 1980)

Frederic Whitaker (1891–1980) was an American designer, painter and author. 
Whitaker was a member of the National Academy of Design, served seven years as president of the American Watercolor Society, and founded Audubon Artists, whose purpose is to speak for all aspects of the visual arts. He also served on numerous other boards and organizations. Whitaker also wrote two books and more than 90 articles on art-related topics. 

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

The Fruit Market
1969
Watercolor

55.8 x 76.2 cm
The Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation
Syracuse, NY, United States
https://whitakerwatercolors.org/

Theodore Wores
1859 - 1939)
 

Theodore Wores was an American painter. He was from San Francisco, and travelled extensively including periods in Germany, Japan, Hawaii, and Samoa. 

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

 The Chinese Fishmonger 

1881

Oil on canvas

88.3 × 117 cm

SAAM, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/chinese-fishmonger-28249

 Helen McNicoll
(1879 - 1915)
 

Helen Galloway McNicoll RBA was a Canadian impressionist painter. She was one of the most notable women artists in Canada in the early twentieth century and achieved considerable success during her decade-long career. McNicoll played an important role in popularizing Impressionism in Canada, at a time when it was still relatively unknown, with her lively representations of rural landscapes, intimate child subjects and modern female figures. She was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1913 and was created an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1914.

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

Marketplace 
1910
Oil on canvas
63.8 x 77.3 cm 
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/helen-mcnicoll/key-works/marketplace/

 Thomas Shotter
(1774- 1840)
 

Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) was an English watercolour painter and lithographer. 
His most important work, Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc., a collection of colour lithographs, appeared in 1839, attracting a great deal of admiration.

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

Fish Market, Antwerp 
1839
Hand-colored lithograph
27 x 17 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (among others)
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/134272-fish-market-antwerp

Nicolaes Maes
(1634- 1693) 

Nicolaes Maes was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits, religious compositions and the occasional still life. A pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam, he returned to work in his native city of Dordrecht for 20 years. In the latter part of his career he returned to Amsterdam where he became the leading portrait painter of his time. Maes contributed to the development of genre painting in the Netherlands and was the most prominent portrait painter working in Amsterdam in the final three decades of the 17th century. 

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

Vegetable Market 
1655 
Oil on canvas
71 x 91 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Vegetable-Market--5c6b229aa4de2baf3f6d96183503b550

Robert Bevan
(1865- 1925)
 

Robert Polhill Bevan was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer who was married to the Polish-born artist Stanisława de Karłowska. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bevan_(artist)

Hay Carts, Cumberland Market 
1915
Oil on canvas
47.9 x 61 cm.
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38422

Aina Onabolu
(1882-1963)
 

Aina Onabolu OBE was a pioneering Nigerian modern arts teacher and painter who was an important figure in the introduction of arts into the curriculum of secondary schools in the country. He promoted the drawing of environmental forms in a verisimilitudinous style and was known for his early modern work in portraiture. Aina is the great-grandfather of Canadian pop singer Joseph Onabolu. 

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

Hope 
1947
Oil on canvas
Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria

Vicenzo Campi  
(1530 - 1591)

Vincenzo Campi  was a 16th-century Italian painter working in Cremona during the Late Renaissance. Campi is best known as one of the first northern Italian artists to work in the Flemish style of realist genre painting.


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

The Poultry Seller
1580s
Oil on canvas
147 x 215 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
https://pinacotecabrera.org/en/collezioni/collezione-on-line/the-poultry-seller/

Alberto Pasini
1826–1899)

Alberto Pasini was an Italian painter. He is best known for depicting Orientalist subjects in a late-Romantic style.

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

Horse market, Syria 
1893
Oil on canvas
84x 103 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/896/

 <b>Jacques-Laurent Agasse</b>
(1767 - 1849) 

<i>Jacques-Laurent Agasse was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland. </I>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Laurent_Agasse

Old Smithfield Market 
1824
Oil on canvas
50 × 70 cm
Yale Centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:40719

Francisco Pradilla Ortiz
(1848- 1912)
 

Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (24 July 1848 – 1 November 1921) was a prolific Spanish painter famous for creating historical scenes.
His total output is well over 1,000 paintings showing his interest in a variety of subjects and styles, often without regard of the current fashion. He is primarily recognized for his historical paintings; the last one completed in 1910 carries one of the longer titles of a major painting, Cortejo del bautizo del Príncipe Don Juan, hijo de los Reyes Católicos, por las calles de Sevilla (Retinue of the Baptism of Don Juan, son of the Catholic Monarchs, Along the Streets of Seville).

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

 The market of the San Miguel Square 
1874
Engraving - Clored Woodcut
Museum of the Fairs Foundation - Simón Ruiz Archive

Agostino Brunias
(1730- 1796)
 

Agostino Brunia was an Italian painter who was primarily active in the West Indies. Born in Rome around 1730, Brunias spent his early career as a painter after graduating from the Accademia di San Luca. After he befriended prominent Scottish architect Robert Adam and accompanied him back to Britain, Brunias left for the British West Indies to continue his career in painting under the tutelage of Sir William Young. Although he was primarily commissioned to paint the various planter families and their plantations in the West Indies, he also painted several scenes featuring free people of colour and cultural life in the West Indies. Brunias spent most of his West Indian career on the island of Dominica, where he would die in 1796. Historians have made disparate assessments of Brunias's works; some praised his subversive depiction of West Indian culture, while others claimed it romanticised the harshness of plantation life. Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture was a prominent admirer of his work. 

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

Kingston Harbor, Linen Market, St. Vincent
1780
Oil on canvas
55 x 76.2 cm
Yale Center for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:54267

Utagawa Hiroshige 
(1797 - 1858)

Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. 
Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject, though Hiroshige's approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai's bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige's prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.

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

Market at Asakusa in Edo
1853
polychrome woodblock print 
36 x 24 cm
Private collection and several museums 

 J. M. W. Turner
(1775 - 1851)
 

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. His artistic style developed over his lifetime, moving away from Romanticism—bypassing the following rising style of Realism—and, instead, with his later works being a significant precursor of and presaging the later Impressionist and Abstract Art movements that arose in the decades after his death. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner

The Fish Market at Hastings Beach 
1810
Oil on canvas
90.8 x 120.6  cm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/25102/fish-market

Edward Bawden 
(1903 - 1989)

Edward Bawden, CBE RA was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had been a student, worked as a commercial artist and served as a war artist in World War II. He was a fine watercolour painter but worked in many different media. He illustrated several books and painted murals in both the 1930s and 1960s. He was admired by Edward Gorey, David Gentleman and other graphic artists, and his work and career is often associated with that of his contemporary Eric Ravilious.

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

Covent Garden Flower Market
1967
Lithograph on paper
46 x 161 cm
Tate Gallery, London, UK
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bawden-covent-garden-flower-market-p06021

Oswald Achenbach
(1827–1905 )
 

Oswald Achenbach was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega). 

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

Market square of Amalfi
1876
Oil on canvas
128 x 111 cm
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/960957

Jerome Myers
(1867–1940)
 

Jerome Myers was an American artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape and its people.He was one of the main organizers of the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European modernism to America.


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

Market in Paris, 
1920
Oil on canvas
76.5 x 63.5 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/market-paris

 <b>Léon Lhermitte</b> 
 (1844–1925)

<i>Léon Augustin Lhermitte was a French naturalist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work. </i>

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

Apple Market, Landerneau 
(c. 1878)
oil on canvas
85 x 120 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/102973
Landerneau is a market town in Brittany, France.

Apple Market, Landerneau, 
1878
drawing
pen and brown ink over tracing in red chalk
26.6 x 38 xm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland USA
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.356

 No food in the next artwork, sometimes markets were used for other occasions…
 

Thomas Rowlandson
(1757 - 1827)

Thomas Rowlandson was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social and political satires, as well as a large number of illustrations for novels, humorous books, and topographical works. Like other caricaturists of his age such as James Gillray, his caricatures are often robust or bawdy. Rowlandson also produced highly explicit erotica for a private clientele; this was never published publicly at the time and is now only found in a small number of collections. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte. 

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

Covent Garden Market
1808
Hand-colored etching and aquatint 
Plate 23 × 24.3 cm, 
The MET (among others)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/744268

This print records temporary wooden stands erected outside St.Paul's Church in Covent Garden Market to allow politicians running for Parliament in the Westminster election to address voters. On this occasion a large crowd has gathered, carrying banners and spilling out into the square, with some figures perched on a roof at right to listen to a speaker.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
(1699–1779)
 

Jean Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work. 

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

 

The Return from the Market (a.k.a. The Provider), 
1738
oil on canvas
46.7 × 37.5 cm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/the-return-from-the-market

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
(1617–1682)

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 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 Little Fruit Seller
c. 1670–75
oil on canvas
144 × 1107.6 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich WGA
https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/o5xrMRP47X

Adriaen van Ostade
(1610– 1685)
 

Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women. 

Ostade was the contemporary of the Flemish painters David Teniers the Younger and Adriaen Brouwer. Like them, he spent his life in delineation of ordinary life, depicting tavern scenes, village fairs and country quarters. Between Teniers and Ostade the contrast lies in the different condition of the agricultural classes of Brabant and Holland and in the atmosphere and dwellings peculiar to each region. Brabant has more sun and more comfort; Teniers, in consequence, is silvery and sparkling, and the people he paints are fair specimens of their culture. Holland, in the vicinity of Haarlem, seems to have suffered much from war; the air is moist and hazy, and the people depicted by Ostade are short and ill-favoured, marked with adversity's stamp in feature and dress.

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

The Fish Market
1659
Oil on canvas
41.5 × 36.5 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059114

Frans Snyders
(1579 - 1657)

Frans Snyders or Frans Snijders was a Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, market scenes, and still lifes. A versatile artist, his works depict all sorts of foods, utensils, and tableware and wide assortment of animals. He was one of the earliest specialist animaliers and he is credited with initiating a wide variety of new still-life and animal subjects in Antwerp. His hunting scenes and still lifes engage the viewer with their dramatic and dynamic effects. He was a regular collaborator with leading Antwerp painters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, and Abraham Janssens

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

The Fish market
1618
Oil on canvas225 x 365 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien, Gemäldegalerie
https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/fish-market-around-1620-30-1797-1

Louise Moillon
(1610 - 1696)

 

Louise Moillon was a French still life painter in the Baroque era. It is recorded that she became known as one of the best still life painters of her time, as her work was purchased by King Charles I of England, as well as French nobility. Moillon's works show the influence of Flemish painting in their trompe l'oeil effects but are characteristically French in their elegance. Moillon created about 40 paintings during her lifetime which are held in museums and private collections.

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

 

The Fruit and Vegetable Seller
1631
Oil on canvas
48 cm (18.8 in); width: 65 cm (25.5 in)
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010066267

Joachim Beuckelaer
(1535 - 1575)

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.
Beuckelaer's market scenes, like those of Aertsen, often incorporate biblical episodes in the background.

His Four Elements series National Gallery, London are a good example. The painting depicting the element Water, for example, shows a fish market selling 12 kinds of fish, representing the twelve disciples of Jesus. Through an archway in the background the miraculous draught of fishes is depicted, with Christ appearing to his apostles and telling them to cast their nets on the other side of the boat.

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

The Four Elements: Air
1570
Oil on canvas
158 × 216 cm
The National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/joachim-beuckelaer-the-four-elements-air

At first sight this looks like a busy sixteenth-century street scene. A man sells poultry and other produce, piled up in baskets and barrels, in the corner of a market square. He lifts up two hens by their legs, feathers from their flapping wings drifting down and settling on the coop below. On the left, a smartly dressed young woman with a basket on her arm grasps a handsome cockerel by its feet. She turns and looks confidently out at us, as if we are standing next to her at this stall.
There’s more going on here than the daily shop. This is one of four large paintings in which the four elements – earth, air, fire and water – are represented by food, with biblical scenes in the background. In another corner of the market we can see the prodigal son, in red trousers – he is wasting ‘his substance with riotous living’ (Luke 15: 13). 

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/joachim-beuckelaer-the-four-elements-air

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.
His genre scenes were influential on later Flemish Baroque painting, Dutch still life painting and also in Italy. His peasant scenes preceded by a few years the much better-known paintings produced in Antwerp by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.


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

The Vegetable Seller
1567
Oil on oak panel
111.2 x 111.6 cm
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/867996