Michiel Versteegh
(1756 – 1843)

Michiel Versteeg, or Versteegh, was a dutch painter.
He started his career as a painter and was tutored by Michiel Versteegh. He started with copying works of famous artists, but developed into a landscape painter, with his own compositions of landscapes often with cattle. He received a Prix de Rome in 1807 and travelled to Paris and Rome. He settled definitively in Rome in 1810 and became a professor of fine arts. He was made an honorary member of the Koninklijke Academie voor beeldende kunsten te Amsterdam and of several Italian painter academies. He never returned to the Netherlands, but did submit works for exhibitions in the Netherlands, which gained him wide recognition. He died in Rome in 1843.

https://wikioo.org/en/artist.php?name=Michiel+Or+Moggiel+Or+Miachiel+Versteeg

A Musical Party by Candlelight
1786 - 1820
oil on panel
88 x 73.9 cm
Het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/A-Musical-Party-by-Candlelight--59d4f88030eb1733d66f90743e01d328

Joseph Wright of Derby
(1734 - 1797)
 

Joseph Wright ARA styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting and landscape art. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution".
Wright is notable for his use of tenebrism, an exaggerated form of the better known chiaroscuro effect, which emphasizes the contrast of light and dark, and for his paintings of candle-lit subjects.

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

Two Boys with a Bladder
1767
Oil on canvas
111.1 × 91.8 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109Q0X

 

The painting depicts two young boys, boldly lit by a concealed candle, inflating a pig's bladder. At the time, animal bladders served as toys, either inflated and tossed like balloons or filled with dried peas and shaken like rattles. In European art, bladders often functioned as symbolic variants on soap bubbles, fragile playthings signifying the brevity of human life and the transience of human achievement. Although bladders were depicted frequently in seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, they were less common in eighteenth-century British art, and Wright has taken liberties with the motif. The elaborate costumes—with their frilled collars and cuffs—worn by the boys seem to be of the artist's own invention, in the style of contemporary British "fancy pictures."

 Angelo Inganni
(1807 - 1880)

Angelo Inganni was an Italian painter. 
He exhibited views of various Italian cities in national and international exhibitions. It was in the 1850s, above all after his return to Brescia, that he began to produce genre works of Flemish inspiration with new subjects drawn from rural life and telling effects of light. He frescoed the churches of San Marco and San Carlo in Milan as well as the parish church of Gussago. 


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

Peasant Lighting a Candle with an Ember
1850
Oil on canvas
75 × 102.5  cm.
Fondazione Cariplo, Milano, Italy
https://www.artgate-cariplo.it/collezione-online/page37d.do?link=oln94d.redirect&kcond32d.att1=595&scu5d.scroller.att78d=595

Henry Robert Morland
1730–1797
 

Henry Robert Morland  was an English portrait painter, best remembered for a portrait of King George III, and for being the father of the animal painter George Morland. 

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

The Ballad Singer
ca. 1764
Oil on canvas
76.2 × 63.5cm
Yale Centre For British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:940

Matthias Stom
(c. 1600 - 1652)
 

Matthias Stom or Matthias Stomer was a Dutch, or possibly Flemish, painter who is only known for the works he produced during his residence in Italy. He was influenced by the work of non-Italian followers of Caravaggio in Italy, in particular his Dutch followers often referred to as the Utrecht Caravaggists, as well as by Jusepe de Ribera and Peter Paul Rubens. He did not share the other Northern Caravaggisti's preference for humorous, and sometimes scabrous, genre scenes and elaborate decorative allegories but favored stories from the bible instead. He worked in various locations in Italy where he enjoyed the patronage of religious institutions as well as prominent members of the nobility.

Annunciation
Circa 1633 to 1637
Oil on canvas
166 × 113 cm
Uffizi Gallery, Firenze, Italy

 Georg Flegel
(1566- 1638)

Georg Flegel was a German painter, best known for his still-life works. Born in Olomouc (now in the Czech Republic), he later worked in Frankfurt am Main, where he became a leading figure in early German still-life painting. 

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

Candlelight Pantry
1630-1635
Oil on canvas
72.5 x 60 cm 
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/Georg-Flegel/Vorratskammer-bei-Kerzenlicht/DCBDA55040C0C0FE18BA0BBFC2FE9DC4/

Viktor Madarász 
(1830 - 1917)

Viktor Madarász was a Hungarian painter in the Romantic style. He is best known for his historical scenes and portraits.

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

The Mourning of László Hunyadi 
1859
Oil on canvas
243 × 311.5 cm 
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
https://en.mng.hu/artworks/54526/

László Hunyadi, the son of the great defeater of the Ottomans János Hunyadi who thus became a national hero, was ordered to be killed by Vladislav V. Young Hunyadi enjoyed widespread popularity among the Hungarians, so he was seen as a rival to the young, inexperienced Vladislav V who served foreign interests. The Hunyadi theme was very popular in the history painting of the century; László Hunyadi’s farewell and his dying were eternalized by many and in various ways. The Madarász painting captures a very special moment, the wake. Next to the body, covered by a white shroud are his mother Erzsébet Szilágyi and his bride Mária Gara, their movements and facial expressions mirroring profound grief.

Godfried Schalcken
(1643 - 1706)
 

Godfried Schalcken was a Dutch artist who specialized in genre paintings and portraits. Schalcken was noted for his night scenes and mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight. He painted in the highly polished style of the Leiden fijnschilders.

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

Fire and Light (A Girl Places a Candle in a Lantern and a Boy Blows on the Coals in a Chafing-Dish)
attributed to Godfried Schalcken, 1690 - 1706
Oil on canvas
46 x 38cm
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Fire-and-Light-A-Girl-Places-a-Candle-in-a-Lantern-and-a-Boy-Blows-on-the-Coals-in-a-Chafing-Dish--1e5628a7eafd9eb84cc338d591de4c56

Gerrit Dou
(1613 - 1675)
 

Gerrit Dou also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe-l'œil "niche" paintings and candlelit night-scenes with strong chiaroscuro. He was a student of Rembrandt. 

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

Astronomer by Candlelight
late 1650s
Oil on panel
45.9 × 34.4 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RHZ

Jeong, Bo Young
B. 1973
 

Jeong, Bo Young is a South Korean artist. Painting with the technicality, precision and subject matter of natural lighting as the Old Masters did, Jeong revives landscape paintings by incorporating contemporary elements such as welded iron chairs, smoke stacks and concrete tiles. She subtly plays with the presence and effects of light on the viewer, creating a cheerful visual puzzle for the viewer to decipher as suggested by the ambiguous title of both works. The depiction of light in Jeong's works also shows her keen observation on the phenomenon of light, leading her to catch the stillness of light, exposing the spiritual quality it can hold over a space and viewer. The two folds of light, both internal and external, are revealed in Jeong Bo Young's paintings.

Lighting Up
2009
Oil on canvas
530 x 455 cm
Private collection
Interesting video (6 min) with the artist on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/F6xpmJGw1ak?si=-Ia5Xszv6x_gCD1q

 Sung-Hun Kong
(B. 1965 )
 

Sung-Hun Kong is a Korean artist; His work is well-known for "rediscovering the medium of painting and breaking the preconceived notion that painting cannot yield any new achievements in contemporary art trends", and "for demonstrating an extraordinary artistic talent of exceptional innovativeness". Kong was awarded as the winner of 2013 Korea Artist Prize by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea(MMCA).

https://www.theartling.com/en/artist/kong-sunghun/

A Candle in Rocky Ground
2008
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 60 cm
Korean Art Museum Association, South Korea

 <b>Adolph Menzel</b>
(1815–1905)
 

Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of the 19th century, and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany. First known as Adolph Menzel, he was knighted in 1898 and changed his name to Adolph von Menzel. 

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

Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci
1852
Oil on canvas
142x 205 cm
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/966477/fl%C3%B6tenkonzert-friedrichs-des-gro%C3%9Fen-in-sanssouci

The painting depicts, in a pre-impressionistic, painterly 19th-century style, an 18th-century musical soirée at the palace at which a piece of music is being played with King Frederick himself playing the flute center stage. However, the monarch’s features represented in the painting are highly idealized as Menzel avoids showing Frederick with his aquiline nose, although he must have known the death mask of the Prussian king.
In front of Frederick sits his chamber ensemble and to his rear an audience of dignitaries and noble ladies. The focus of the work is not on the music but rather on Frederick and the ambience created by the interior design, the furniture, the chandelier and candlelight and the ladies' elaborate dresses. 

Hendrick ter Brugghen
 (1588–1629)

Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen  was a Dutch painter of genre scenes and religious subjects. He was one of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio – the so-called Utrecht Caravaggisti. Along with Gerrit van Hondhorst and Dirck van Baburen, Ter Brugghen was one of the most important Dutch painters to have been influenced by Caravaggio.

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

The Concert
About 1626
Oil on canvas
99 x 116.8 cm
National Gallery, London

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hendrick-ter-brugghen-the-concert

We seem to have crept to within touching distance of this small group of musicians who turn towards us with surprise. The highly focused light source creates sharp highlights, intense shadows and a sense both of drama and intimacy. Dramatic lighting effects like this are now common, but in the 1620s it was a revolutionary way to paint. The man responsible for this revolution was Michelangelo Caravaggio, who was working in Rome between about 1597 and 1607.
Ter Brugghen was the first important Dutch painter to bring Caravaggio’s ideas back to Holland and this composition reveals his influence in other ways. The half-length figures crowded together within the composition and filling the pictorial space – right up to the edges of the frame – are typical of the Italian artist, as is the clarity and realism of the depiction of the grapes in the foreground.

Matthias Stom
(c. 1600 - 1652)
 

Matthias Stom or Matthias Stomer was a Dutch, or possibly Flemish, painter who is only known for the works he produced during his residence in Italy. He was influenced by the work of non-Italian followers of Caravaggio in Italy, in particular his Dutch followers often referred to as the Utrecht Caravaggists, as well as by Jusepe de Ribera and Peter Paul Rubens. He did not share the other Northern Caravaggisti's preference for humorous, and sometimes scabrous, genre scenes and elaborate decorative allegories but favored stories from the bible instead. He worked in various locations in Italy where he enjoyed the patronage of religious institutions as well as prominent members of the nobility.

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

Woman counting coins by candlelight
Date unknown
Oil on canvas
57.5 x 67.9 cm
The Kremer Collection, Amsterdam
https://thekremercollection.com/paintings/matthias-stom-woman-counting-coins-by-candlelight/#

Gerard van Honthorst
(1592–1656)
 

Gerard "Gerrit" van Honthorst  was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the Italian nickname Gherardo delle Notti ("Gerard of the Nights"). Early in his career he visited Rome, where he had great success painting in a style influenced by Caravaggio. Following his return to the Netherlands he became a leading portrait painter. Van Honthorst's contemporaries included Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen.

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

Old woman examining a coin by a lantern (Sight or Avarice)
1623
oil on canvas
60 × 75 cm
The Kremer Collection, Amsterdam
https://thekremercollection.com/paintings/gerrit-van-honthorst-old-woman-examining-a-coin-by-a-lantern-sight-or-avarice/

Howard Pyle
(1853–1911)

Howard Pyle was an American illustrator, painter, and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.

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

Thomas Jefferson Writing the Declaration of Independence
1898
oil on canvas
61 × 92 cm
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, United States
https://emuseum.delart.org/objects/3965/thomas-jefferson-writing-the-declaration-of-independence?ctx=408b6dc7d47d6c1839dbf30ca086ad1d4d565144&idx=13

 Peter Paul Rubens
(1577– 1640)
 

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp. 


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

Old Woman and Boy with Candles 
c. 1616-1617 
Oil on panel
77 x 62.5 cm
The Mauritshuis, The Hague
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/1150-old-woman-and-boy-with-candles

While he was living in Italy, from 1600 to 1608, Peter Paul Rubens became acquainted with the paintings of Caravaggio. These are characterised by strong light-dark contrasts, figures squeezed narrowly into the pictorial plane, and a large measure of realism. This night piece, which Rubens painted in or around 1616-1617, is one of the earliest works produced in the style of Caravaggio in the Netherlands. It shows an old woman holding a lit candle-stump. A boy leans over her left shoulder, trying to light his candle from hers. The woman protects the flame with her left hand, which dims the bright light to a reddish glow that illuminates only the two figures’ faces and part of their clothing, leaving the rest of the scene in semi-darkness. Rubens has convincingly suggested the reflected candlelight on the old woman’s creased face.

Pieter Claesz
(1597- 1661)
 

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, where his son, the landscape painter Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was born.

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

Still Life with Lighted Candle
1627
Oil on panel
26.1 x 37.3 cm.
The Mauritshuis, The Hague
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/947-still-life-with-lighted-candle

Christiaen Jansz. Dusart
(1618 - 1682)

Christiaen Jansz. Dusart was a dutch painter. He was born in Haarlem and was a friend of Rembrandt.

https://wikioo.org/en/artist.php?name=Christiaan+Jansz.+Dusart

Young Man by Candlelight
1645
Oil on canvas
65 cm x 79 cm 
Het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Young-Man-by-Candlelight--fb1761911e7a4070f5694d5026a36c82

 Anton Romako
(1832 - 1889)

Anton Romako  was an Austrian painter. Romako is among the most impressive and contradictory personalities in 19th-century Austrian painting. Unappreciated by contemporary critics and long forgotten after his death, this painter and aquarellist is now considered a predecessor of Austrian Modernism. 

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

Portrait of a Young Man
1878
Oil on canvas
80 × 115 cm
Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
https://www.domquartier.at/en/residenzgalerie-collection-online/paintings/portrait-of-a-young-man/

Rembrandt
(1566 - 1651)

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, mononymously known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art.[3] It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings. 

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

The Parable of the Rich Fool 
1627
Oil on oak wood
31.9 x 42.5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin