Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
39,743 artists in the collection
Dr. John Murray
Scottish
1809 - 1898
Dr. J. P. Asselberghs
Dr. Julian Archie Endowment Fund
Dr. Kathy Curnow
Dr. Lawrence S. Thurman
Dr. Max Thorek
Droese, Felix
German
German, born 1950
A list of members of the political party Alternative for Germany.
Droeshout, John
English
English, 1596 - 1652
Droeshout, Martin
Flemish
Flemish, born c. 1570
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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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...