Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

31,194 artists in the collection

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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.

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French & Sawyer

American

American, active 1860s

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French School

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Frénet, Jean-Baptiste

French

French, 1814 - 1889

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Frere, Herbert

American

American, 1911 - 1960

Freudenberger, Sigmund

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

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.

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Freund, Harry Louis

American

American, 1905 - 1999

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Freya Hansell

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Freyberger, Hans

German

German, 1571 - 1631

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Frey, Henry

American

American, born Switzerland, 1848 - 1924

Frey, Jakob

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: