Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

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Dr. John Murray

Scottish

1809 - 1898

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Dr. J. P. Asselberghs

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Dr. Julian Archie Endowment Fund

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Dr. Kathy Curnow

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Dr. Lawrence S. Thurman

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Dr. Max Thorek

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Droese, Felix

German

German, born 1950

A list of members of the political party Alternative for Germany.

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Droeshout, John

English

English, 1596 - 1652

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Droeshout, Martin

Flemish

Flemish, born c. 1570

Drost, Willem

Drost, Willem

Dutch

Dutch, c. 1630 - after 1680

Willem Drost (baptized 19 April 1633 – buried 25 February 1659) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits.

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Dr. Otto Burchard & Co.

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Drouais, François-Hubert

French

French, 1727 - 1775

François-Hubert Drouais (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ybɛʁ dʁuɛ]; Paris, 14 December 1727 – Paris, 21 October 1775) was a leading French portrait painter during the latter years of Louis XV's reign. His clientele included the French royal family and nobility, foreign aristocracy, fermiers-généraux (tax farmers), and the wealthier members of Parisian society and their favourites. But it was his increasing popularity at the French court that expanded his clientele and made his portraits a fashionable necessity. Drouais's work was admired during his lifetime, and his popularity and clientele did not diminish from the occasional adverse judgement published in Salon reviews. Drouais was apprenticed successively to his father Hubert Drouais, Donat Nonnotte, Charles-André van Loo, Charles-Joseph Natoire, and François Boucher. He was received into the Académie royale in 1758 with his morceaux des réception portraits of the celebrated sculptors Edme Bouchardon (1698–1762) and Guillaume II Coustou (1716–77). Both portraits were exhibited at the Salon of 1759 and received praise. Drouais attended the meetings of the Académie royale and, from 1755 until his death in 1775, exhibited regularly...