Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
31,194 artists in the collection
French, Jared
American
American, 1905 - 1988
Jared French (February 4, 1905 – January 8, 1988) was an American painter who specialized in the medium of egg tempera. He was one of the artists attributed to the style of art known as magic realism along with contemporaries George Tooker and Paul Cadmus.
French & Sawyer
American
American, active 1860s
French School
Frénet, Jean-Baptiste
French
French, 1814 - 1889
Frere, Herbert
American
American, 1911 - 1960
Freudenberger, Sigmund
Swiss
Swiss, 1745 - 1801
Sigmund Freudenberger (16 June 1745 – 15 November 1801) was a Swiss painter and engraver. He was the son of a lawyer, and studied as a portraitist. He lived from 1765 to 1773 in Paris, where he worked with François Boucher and Jean-Michel Moreau. He then founded in a private art school in Bern and was known as "Little Master" for his genre-like depictions of rural life.
Freud, Lucian
British
British, 1922 - 2011
Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, and afterwards by expressionism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism. Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomfiting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models.
Freund, Harry Louis
American
American, 1905 - 1999
Freya Hansell
Freyberger, Hans
German
German, 1571 - 1631
Frey, Henry
American
American, born Switzerland, 1848 - 1924
Frey, Jakob
Swiss
Swiss, 1681 - 1752
Johann Jakob Frey the Elder (17 February 1681 – 11 January 1752) was a Swiss engraver. Frey was born in Lucerne. After learning the principles of design he went, when he was twenty-two years of age, to Rome, where he received some instruction from Arnold van Westerhout, and had afterwards the advantage of studying in the school of Carlo Maratti, at the same time with Robert van Auden-Aerd. His progress was rapid, and he was soon regarded as one of the ablest artists in Rome. His drawing is correct and tasteful, and he was a perfect master of harmony and effect. He etched his plates with spirit, and worked over the etching with a firm and masterly hand. Pew artists have approached nearer to the style of the painters from whom they engraved than Frey. He died at Rome, aged 70. His prints, which exceed the number of one hundred, are generally of a very large size. The following are the principal: