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John Ruskin

On January 11, 2026 - 19th Century, English, february 8

John Ruskin, English art critic and artist, February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900

River_Seine_and_its_Islands,_by_John_Ruskin

Henry Fuseli

On January 11, 2026 - 18th Century, 19th Century, English, february 7

Henry Fuseli, Swiss-English Artist, February 7, 1741 - April 17, 1825

Henry Fuseli (aged 63) by Edward Hodges Baily, 1824. National Gallery, London

Thor's Fight Against the Midgard Serpent, 1788 Oil on canvas, 51.5 x 35.8 in // Royal Academy of Arts, London

The Nightmare, c 1781 Oil on canvas, 40 × 50 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Antique Fragments, between 1778 and 1779 Red chalk on sepia wash, 16.33 x 13.97 in // Kunsthaus Zürich

Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, 1812 Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in // Tate Britain, London

Henry Fuseli, Ariel, From Act V, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, c 1800–1810 Oil on canvas, 36.4 x 28.1 in Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Ariel, From Act V, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, c 1800–1810 Oil on canvas, 36.4 x 28.1 in // Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Falstaff in the Laundry Basket, 1792 Oil on canvas, 53.9 x 66.9 in // Kunsthaus Zürich

Titania and Bottom, c 1790 Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 108.5 in // Tate Britain, London

Henry Fuseli, The Two Murderers of the Duke of Clarence, From Act I, Scene 4 of William Shakespeare's Richard III, between 1780 and 1782 Oil on canvas, 27 x 20.9 in Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

The Two Murderers of the Duke of Clarence, From Act I, Scene 4 of William Shakespeare's Richard III, between 1780 and 1782 Oil on canvas, 27 x 20.9 in // Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Portrait of Anna Magdalene Schweizer, née Hess, 1779 Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Thetis Mourning the Death of Achilles, 1780 Tempera on cardboard, 16.4 x 21.9 in // Art Institute of Chicago

The Creation of Eve, 1793 Oil on canvas, 10 ft x 81.4 in // Kunsthalle Hamburg

Henry Fuseli, Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head, From Act IV, Scene 1 of Macbeth, 1793 Oil on canvas, 66 x 52.8 in Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head, From Act IV, Scene 1 of Macbeth, 1793 Oil on canvas, 66 x 52.8 in // Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Arkhip Kuindzhi

On January 6, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, january 27, Ukrainian

Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian Painter, January 27, 1842(?) – July 24, 1910

Viktor Vasnetsov Portrait of artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1869 Oil on canvas, 46 x 36 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Lake Ladoga, 1871 Oil on canvas, 31.2 x 24.6 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Chumaks' Path in Mariupol, 1875 Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Evening in Ukraine, 1878 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 64.1 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

After a Rain, 1879 Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 63.3 // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

A Birch Grove, 1879 Oil on canvas Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Dnieper in the Morning, 1881 Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 65.7 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Night on the Dniepr, 1882 Oil on canvas, 40.9 x 56.2 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Sea. Crimea, 1890s Oil on canvas, 15.7 x 21.2 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Rainbow, 1900–1905 Oil on canvas, 43.3 x 67.3 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Moon Spots in the Forest, Winter, between 1898 and 1908 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 15.3 x 21 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Nighttime Horses Grazing, c 1905—1908 Oil on canvas, 42.1 x 66.5 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Red Sunset on the Dnieper, 1905 Oil on canvas, 52.9 x 74 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Valentin Serov

On January 2, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, january 19, Russian

Valentin Serov, Russian artist, January 19, 1865 - December 5, 1911

Valentin Serov, between 1901 and 1902

Portrait of Maria Yermolova, 1905 Oil on canvas, 88.1 x 47.2 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Maria Akimova, 1908 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 24.4 in // National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan

Odysseus and Nausicaa, 1910 Gouache on cardboard, 32.8 × 39.9 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Valentin Serov, Portrait of Dancer and Choreographer Ida Rubinstein, 1910 Tempera and charcoal on canvas, 57.8 x 91.7 in Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Portrait of Dancer and Choreographer Ida Rubinstein, 1910 Tempera and charcoal on canvas, 57.8 x 91.7 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Rape of Europa, 1910 Oil on canvas, 27.9 x 38.8 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Ivan Morozov, 1910 Tempera on board, 11.6 x 9 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Henriette Girshman, 1907 Oil on canvas, 55.1 x 55.1 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Sasha and Yura Serov, 1899 Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Girl With Peaches, 1887 Oil on canvas, 35.8 × 33.4 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Iphigenia in Tauris, presumably 1893 Oil on canvas, 37 x 52.7 in // Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan

Portrait of the Composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, 1898 Oil on canvas, 37 x 43.7 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Bathing of a Horse, 1905 Oil on canvas, 28.3 x 38.9 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Eugène Carrière

On December 31, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, january 17

Eugène Carrière, French painter, January 17, 1849 - March 27, 1906

Self-Portrait, c 1893 Oil on canvas, 16.2 x 12.8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Little d'Artagnan, between c 1880 and c 1885 Oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Winding Wool, 1887 Oil on canvas, 39.1 x 34.4 in // Tate Gallery, London

Woman from Behind, Undressing, c 1890–95 Oil on canvas, 18.3 x 15.2 in // Unknown Collection

The Theater of Belleville, 1895 Oil on canvas, 86.6 x 192.9 in // Musée Rodin, Paris

Portrait of a Boy, 1886 Oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago

Paul Verlaine, 1890 Oil on canvas, 59 x 48 in // Louvre, Paris

Portrait of Paul Gauguin, 1891 Oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery

Woman Leaning on a Table, c 1893 Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 21.3 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Poster: Literary, Artistic, Social Aurore, 1898 Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Rodin, 1897 Lithograph National Gallery of Art , Washington DC

Arsène Carriere, 1899/1900 Oil on canvas, 21 7/8 × 18 1/4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston

On December 31, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, january 15

Frances Benjamin Johnston, American Photographer, January 15, 1864 – May 16, 1952

Self-portrait by Johnston, Dressed as a Man, Sporting a Fake Mustache and Holding a Bicycle, c 1890

Self-Portrait as "The New Woman," 1896

Frances Benjamin Johnston, With Mattie, With a Painted Backdrop of the Cliff House in San Francisco, California, 1903

Frances Benjamin Johnston Seated at a Desk in Her Studio, 1895

Portrait of Daniel Coit Gilman, c 1890

Booker T Washington, c 1895

George Washington Carver (Front Row, Center) With Fellow Staff Members at the Tuskegee Institute, 1902

Alice Roosevelt Longworth's Wedding Gown, 1906

Natalie Clifford Barney, between c 1890 and c 1910

Signing of the Peace Protocol of the Spanish-American War, August 12, 1898

Ava Astor, between 1900 and 1910

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, c 1903

Ferdinand Waldmüller

On December 30, 2025 - 19th Century, Austrian, january 15

Ferdinand Waldmüller, Austrian Painter, January 15, 1793-August 23, 1865

Lake Fuschel with Schafberg, 1835 Oil on cardboard, 11.2 x 17.7 in // Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Rettenbach-Gorge at Ischl, 1831 Painting Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, Germany

Johann Feldmüller With His Two Children, 1834 Oil Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, Germany

Boy With a Stable Lantern (Self-Portrait), 1825 Oil on panel, 14.3 x 11.8 in // Private collection

The Höllengebirge at Ischl, 1834 Oil on panel, 12.9 × 9.8 in // Belvedere, Vienna

The Pilgrims Resting, 1859 Painting Private collection, Vienna

Still Life With Roses, Strawberries, and Bread, 1827 Oil on canvas, 11.4 x 13.9 in // Belvedere, Vienna

Grapes, 1841 Oil on canvas, 15.3 x 18.8 in // Belvedere, Vienna

The Peep-Show Man, 1847 Oil on panel, 29.6 x 36.4 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Maple Trees Near Ischl, 1831 Oil on panel, 12.2 x 9.8 in // Belvedere, Vienna

Emanuel Ritter von Neuwall, 1841 Oil on panel, 14.6 x 11.8 in // Vienna Museum

Portrait of Louise Mayer, 1836 Painting, 12 x 10 in // Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

Berthe Morisot

On December 28, 2025 - 19th Century, French, january 14

Berthe Morisot, French painter, January 14, 1841 — March 2, 1895

Unknown photographer, Berthe Morisot

The Mother and Sister of the Artist, between 1869 and 1870 Oil on canvas, 39.7 x 32.2 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Young Girl in a Green Coat, c 1894 Oil on canvas, 45.8 x 32.1 in // Private collection

The Coiffure, 1894 Oil on canvas, 21.6 x 18.1 in // National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires

The Artist's Sister at a Window, 1869 Oil on canvas, 21 9/16 x 18 1/4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Two Sisters on a Couch, 1869 Oil on canvas, 20 1/2 x 32 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Woman and Child on a Balcony, 1872 Oil on canvas, 24 x 19.6 in // Artizon Museum, Tokyo.

Boat on the Quay, 1875 Watercolor on paper, 9.1 x 6.7 in // Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

Boats - Entry to the Medina in the Isle of Wight, 1875 Watercolor on paper, 6.9 x 7.5 in // Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Boulogne Wood Watercolor Private Collection

Girl Picking Cherries, 1891 Red chalk with stumping on light brown paper, 29 5/16 x 19 15/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Peasant Girl, 1890 Red chalk with stumping on light brown paper, 20 3/8 x 17 5/8 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Nude Study of a Peasant Girl, 1891 Red chalk, 5.9 x 9.1 in

Henri Fantin-Latour

On December 28, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, january 14

Henri Fantin-Latour, French Painter, January 14, 1836 – August 25, 1904

Self-portrait, 1859 Oil on canvas, 39.7 x 32.8 in // Museum of Grenoble

Still Life with a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit, 1865 Oil on canvas, 23.26 x 20.27 in // National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

White Roses, 1871 Oil on canvas, 8.5 × 8.9 in // Private collection

Poppies, 1891 Oil on canvas, 2.36 x 2.09 in // Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Still Life with Mustard Pot, 1860 Oil on canvas, 10 1/4 × 15 3/4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Vase of Flowers with a Coffee Cup, 1865 Oil on canvas Private collection

Mr and Mrs Edwin Edwards, 1875 Oil on canvas, 38.6 x 51.4 in // Tate Gallery, London

Portrait of Édouard Manet, 1867 Oil on canvas, 46.2 x 35.4 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, 1867 Oil on fabric, 19.7 x 16.6 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

By the Table, 1872 Oil on canvas, 62.99 x 88.58 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

The Dubourg Family, 1878 Oil on canvas, 57.6 x 67.1 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Madame Lerolle, 1882 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 31 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Gustave Doré

On December 23, 2025 - 19th Century, French, january 6

Gustave Doré, French graphic artist and illustrator, January 6, 1832 - January 23, 1883

Nadar Gustave Doré, between 1856 and 1858 Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Red Riding Hood Meets Old Father Wolf Illustration from an edition of Charles Perrault's fairy tales, 1862

Cinderella Illustration from an edition of Charles Perrault's fairy tales, 1862

The Prince Walking Into Sleeping Beauty's Palace Illustration from an edition of Charles Perrault's fairy tales, 1862

Over London – by Rail, from London: A Pilgrimage, 1872 Engraving Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Ludgate Hill - A block in the Street, from London: A Pilgrimage, 1872 Engraving

Troubadours Singing the Glories of the Crusades

Don Quijote, 1863 Book illustration

Vision of Saint John, 1884 Book illustration

Roland at Roncevaux Oil on canvas, 58.6 x 44.8 in // Private collection

Madness Oil on canvas, 67.1 x 47.4 in // Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales

Flower Sellers of London, c 1875 Oil on canvas, 87 x 52.99 in // Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

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