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/

 Petrus Christus 
(1410/1420 - 1475/1476) 

Petrus Christus was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became the leading painter after the death of Jan van Eyck. He was influenced by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden and is noted for his innovations with linear perspective and a meticulous technique which seems derived from miniatures and manuscript illumination. Today, some 30 works are confidently attributed to him. The best known include the Portrait of a Carthusian (1446) and Portrait of a Young Girl (c. 1470); both are highly innovative in the presentation of the figure against detailed, rather than flat, backgrounds.

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

A Goldsmith in His Shop
1449
Oil on oak panel
100.1 x 85.8 cm
The MET, N.Y.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459052

 Carl Spitzweg
(1808 - 1885) 

Carl Spitzweg  was a German romantic painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era.

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

The Alchemist
ca. 1860
Oil on canvas
36.8 x 43 cm
Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, United States
https://www.msoe.edu/grohmann-museum/the-collection/

 François-Marius Granet
(1775 - 1849) 
 

François Marius Granet was a French painter, primarily of architectural subjects.

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

The Alchemist
1800s 
Oil on canvas
61 x 48.3 cm
The Science History Institute, Philadelphia, US.
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/mk61rh526

 <b>David Teniers </b>
(1610-1690) 

David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, and artist. 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

The Bald-Headed Alchemist
1600s 
Oil on canvas
106.5 x 159.7 cm
The Science History Institute, Philadelphia, US.
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/sn009z63q

 Jan Steen
(1626 - 1679) 
 

Jan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century. His works are known for their psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour. Their satire also mocks the behavior and attitudes of the Dutch bourgeoisie.

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

The Alchemist
ca. 1668 – 167
Oil on canvas
32.5 x 26.9 cm
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/a-goldsmith-melting-down-a-womans-jewellery-in-the-presence

 Mattheus van Helmont
(1623 - 1679)
 

Mattheus van Helmont was a Flemish painter specialized in genre scenes of interiors and village scenes. His style and subject matter were influenced by the work of David Teniers the Younger and Adriaen Brouwer. His preferred subjects were peasant feasts, wedding celebrations, drinkers and alchemists. He developed his own personal style towards the final phase of his career. He spent most of his active life in Antwerp but moved to Brussels later.

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

An Alchemist at Work

1600s
Oil on canvas
109.2 x 149.9 cm
The Science History Institute, Philadelphia, US.
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/f7623d391 

 Thomas Wijck
(1616 - 1677)
 

Thomas Wijck (also Thomas Wijk, or Thomas Wyck) was a Dutch painter of port views and genre paintings.

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

The Alchemist
c. 1660
Oil on panel
43.6 x 38 cm

Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdamhttps://www.museum-schwerin.de/wiedereroeffnung/

 Cornelis Bega
(1631 - 1664)
 

Cornelis Pietersz Bega, or Cornelis Pietersz Begijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.

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

The Astrologer

1663
Oil on wood
36.9 x 29.6 cm
The National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/cornelis-bega-an-astrologer 

 Vermeer
(1632 - 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 Astronomer
circa 1668
Oil on canvas
50 x 45 cm
Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010064324

 Olivier van Deuren 
(1666 - 1714)

Olivier van Deuren or Olivier Pietersz. van Deuren; Olivier van Dueren; Olivier van Durren  was a painter from the Dutch Republic.

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

A Young Astronomer
1685
Oil on canvas
15,3 x12,7 cm
National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/olivier-van-deuren-a-young-astronomer

 Ferdinand Bol
(1616 - 1680)
 

Ferdinand Bol was a Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favoured historical subjects, portraits, numerous self-portraits, and single figures in exotic finery.

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

An Astronomer
1652
Oil on canvas
127 x 135 cm
National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ferdinand-bol-an-astronomer

Gonzales Coques
(1614 - 1684)
 

Gonzales Coques was a Flemish painter of portraits and history paintings. Because of his artistic proximity to and emulation with Anthony van Dyck he received the nickname de kleine van Dyck (the little van Dyck). Coques was also active as an art dealer.

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

 The Astronomer and his Wife
circa 1648–1650
oil paint on panel
40.5 cm × 54.5 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
https://musees-strasbourg.skin-web.org/fr/document/l-astronome-et-sa-femme/5ee338d7461cda28a3ab1c83?q=coques&pos=3&pgn=0

 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

Scholar Interrupted at His Writing
1635
Oil on oval panel
24.5 x 20 cm
The Leiden collection
https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/a-scholar-interrupted-at-his-writing/

Adriaan de Lelie
(1755 - 1820)
 

Adriaan de Lelie was a Dutch painter. Born in Tilburg, De Lelie was a pupil of A. Peeters, a painter of tapestries and ornaments, and afterwards of Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont in Antwerp. He made copies of many portraits by Rubens and van Dyck in Düsseldorf, and also of historical pictures by Italian and Dutch masters. On the advice of Professor Camper, he established himself in Amsterdam.

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

The Art Gallery of Jan Gildemeester Jansz
1794-95
Oil on panel
63.7 x 85.7 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/The-Art-Gallery-of-Jan-Gildemeester-Jansz--01a1742c9b17d32c1e8b27d0827aac5a
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The man kneeling in the right foreground is the artist Adriaan de Lelie himself

 Hendrik Heerschop 
1626 - 1690

Hendrik Heerschop was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

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

The Architect
1672
Oil on Wood
54,9 x 44,6 cm
Staatliches Museum, Schwerin

 Adriaen van Ostade 

(1610 - 1685)

Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing the everyday life of ordinary men and women.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_van_Ostade

The Teacher (1662)

1964

Oil on panel

40 x 32.5cm

 Louvre, Paris, France

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010062479

 Velázquez
(1599 - 1660)

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of the greatest artists in the history of Western art.

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

The Spinners / The Fable of Arachne
1655 - 1660
Oil on Canvas
220 × 289 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-spinners-or-the-fable-of-arachne/3d8e510d-2acf-4efb-af0c-8ffd665acd8d

Charles Frederic Ulrich
(1858 - 1908)
 

Charles Frederic Ulrich was an American Realist painter who spent most of his career in Germany. He is best known for his genre scenes of working-class people.

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

The Glass Engraver
1883
Oil on panel
54.6 x 66 cm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.97
https://crystalbridges.org/artworks/2006-97

 George de Forest Brush
(1855 - 1941)


George de Forest Brush was an American painter and Georgist. In collaboration with his friend, the artist Abbott H. Thayer, he made contributions to military camouflage, as did his wife, aviator and artist Mary (called Mittie) Taylor (Whelpley) Brush, and their son, the sculptor Gerome Brush.

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

 The Potter
1889
Oil on panel
40 x 76 cm
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/potter-20098

 Rembrandt 
(1606 - 1669)
 

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, known mononymously 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. It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings.
Unlike most Dutch painters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of styles and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological subjects and animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.

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

The Shipbuilder and his wife (Jan Rijcksen (1560/2-1637) and his Wife, Griet Jans)
1633
Oil on canvas
113.8 x 168.8 cm
Royal Collection
https://www.rct.uk/collection/405533/the-shipbuilder-and-his-wife-jan-rijcksen-15602-1637-and-his-wife-griet-jans

 John Neagle
(1796 - 1865)

 John Neagle was a fashionable American painter, primarily of portraits, during the first half of the 19th century in Philadelphia.
Neagle was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His training in art began with instruction from the drawing-master Pietro Ancora and an apprenticeship to Thomas Wilson, a well-connected painter of signs and coaches in Philadelphia. Wilson introduced him to the painters Bass Otis and Thomas Sully, and Neagle became a protégé of the latter. In 1818 Neagle decided to concentrate exclusively on portraits, setting up shop as an independent master.
Aside from brief sojourns in Lexington, Kentucky, and New Orleans, Louisiana, he spent his career in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he died. In May 1826 he married Sully's stepdaughter Mary, and for a time the son-in-law and father-in-law dominated the field of portraiture in the city. Neagle served as Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and was also a founder and president (1835–43) of the Artist's Fund Society of Philadelphia.

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

Pat Lyon at the Forge
1961
Oil on canvas 
238 x 172 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/pat-lyon-at-the-forge-34216

Patrick Lyon (c. 1769, Edinburgh, Scotland – April 15, 1829, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Scottish-born American blacksmith, mechanic and inventor. After being falsely accused and imprisoned for a 1798 bank robbery, he became a working class hero. A self-made businessman, he was among the foremost American makers of hand-pumped fire engines.
Artist John Neagle's portrait of him, Pat Lyon at the Forge (1826–27), alludes to his unjust imprisonment, and is an iconic work in American art.

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Lyon_(blacksmith) 

 Gustave Caillebotte
(1848 - 1894)
 

Gustave Caillebotte  was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group. Caillebotte was known for his early interest in photography as an art form. Because of his family's wealth, he was a patron of many of his fellow Impressionists. Upon his death, his bequeathed collection of their works became the central collection of Impressionism for the French Republic, despite considerable controversy. 

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

Les raboteurs de parquet (The Floor Scrapers)
1875
Oil on canvas
102 x 146.5 cm
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/raboteurs-de-parquet-105

 Georges de La Tour
(1593 - 1652)
 

Georges de La Tour  was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
Recognised during his lifetime, he was quickly forgotten after his death. Rediscovered in the early 20th century by German art historian Hermann Voss, he later inspired writers as diverse as René Char, André Malraux, Pascal Quignard, and Charles Juliet.

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

Saint Joseph charpentier (Joseph the Carpenter)
1640s
Oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm
Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010063817

 Paulus Potter
(1625 - 1654)
 

Paulus Potterwas a Dutch painter who specialized in landscapes featuring animals, often from a low vantage point.
Before Potter died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 he produced about 100 paintings, working continuously.

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

A Farrier's Shop (The Blacksmith)
1648
Oil on panel
48.3 x 45.7 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1191-farriers-shop

 Quiringh van Brekelenkam
(1622 - 1669)

Quirijn or Quiringh Gerritsz van Brekelenkam was a Dutch Baroque genre painter. He probably studied under Gerard Dou, and as a result his paintings from the 1640s and 1650s are similar to those of the Leiden fijnschilders.

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

The Shoemaker
c. 1660
Oil on wood
51.1 x 65.7 cm
Staatliches Museum, Schwerin
https://www.museum-schwerin.de/wiedereroeffnung/

 Annibale Carracci
(1560 – 1609)
 

Annibale Carracci was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his younger brother Agostino Carracci and elder cousin Ludovico Carracci (with whom he also worked collectively), Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both north and south of their native city, and aspiring for a return to classical monumentality, but adding a more vital dynamism. Painters working under Annibale at the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese would be highly influential in Roman painting for decades.

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

The Butcher’s Shop
early 1580s
Oil on canvas
59.7 x 71 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-198008