Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
31,194 artists in the collection
Converse, Lily Schierenberg
American
American, 1892 - 1961
Cooghen, Leendert van der
Dutch
Dutch, 1632 - 1681
Leendert van der Cooghen (Haarlem, 9 May 1632 – Haarlem, 18 February 1681) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and printmaker. An amateur artist of independent means, he left a small oeuvre of which his drawings represent the major portion. Recognised by his fellow artists, he was admitted to the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke in 1652.
Cook
British
British, active 18th century
Cooke, Edward William
Cooke, Edward William
British
British, 1811 - 1880
Cooke, Edward William (RA, FRS, FSA)
Cooke, George
British
British, 1781 - 1834
George Cooke (22 January 1781 – 27 February 1834), was an English line engraver.
Cooke, George
American
American, 1793 - 1849
George Esten Cooke (1793–1849) was an itinerant United States painter who specialized in portrait and landscape paintings and was one of the South's best known painters of the mid nineteenth century. His primary patron was the industrialist Daniel Pratt, who built a gallery in Prattville, Alabama, solely to house Cooke's paintings.
Cooke, Hereward Lester
American
American, 1916 - 1973
Hereward Lester Cooke (1916–1973) was an American painter. Cooke was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1916. He studied at Oxford University, the Art Students League (under George Bridgman), the Yale University School of Fine Art, and Princeton University Graduate School, where he received his Ph.D. Cooke is known more for his work in art history than for his painting, having written several texts, especially Painting Lessons from the Great Masters in 1967. He was the Curator of Painting at the National Gallery of Art from 1961 to 1973, and before that a National Gallery Aide and its acting assistant director, beginning in 1956. Part of his duties as curator included heading the Expert Opinions Section of the National Gallery, where owners of artworks could come and have their art appraised or otherwise identified. He was a well-known authority on fakes and forgeries and was called the "Sherlock Holmes of the Art World" for his work in solving art mysteries of attribution. As a curator, Cooke was also very influential in the government-sponsored art programs, helping to select artists for the Environmental Protection Agency art program and serving as art advisor to NASA for ten years...
Cooke, Honoré Guilbeau
American
American, 1907 - 2006
Cooke, J.
Cooke, John
American
American, born Wales, c. 1880 - 1969