Painters (etc.)

This page aims to list the most famous works of various painters, and other artists.

For biographical questions about painters (etc.), see Artists.

Famous for portraits of Nelson and Cowper		Lemuel Francis Abbott
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (triptych, 1944); Three Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud (1965 – sold for £23 million in 2011)		Francis Bacon
A series of at least 45 paintings known as the 'screaming popes', executed over a 20–year period beginning in the 1940s and inspired by a portrait of Pope Innocent X by Velázquez velazquez
Illustrations (drawings) for an edition of Malory's La Morte d'Arthur published by Dent in 1893, and for Wilde's play Salome (1893–4 – including The Stomach Dance and The Peacock Skirt)		Aubrey Beardsley
St. Jerome in the Desert (c. 1455), Agony in the Garden (c. 1462), Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1477), The Feast of the Gods (1514)		Giovanni Bellini
The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1500)		Hieronymus Bosch
Primavera (c. 1482), The Birth of Venus (c. 1485)		Sandro Botticelli
The Months of the Year (1565): Children's Games, Hunters in the Snow, Peasant Wedding, Adoration of the Magi, Wedding Dance		Pieter Breugel (the Elder)
The Last of England (1855), Work (1852–65)		Ford Madox Brown
The Stonemason's Yard (c. 1725), Venice: A Regatta on the Grand Canal (1735) – both in the National Gallery, London; Badminton House (1748), Alnwick Castle (1752), Eton College (1754), and at least four views of Warwick Castle (1748–52)		Canaletto
Supper at Emmaus (two versions, 1601 and 1606: one in the National Gallery London, the other in the Brera, Milan)		Caravaggio
The Card Players (a series of five paintings – one was reportedly sold privately in 2011 for a record price of between $250 million and $300 million)		Paul Cezanne
Painted several views of Mont Sainte–Victoire, visible from the garden of his home (or the home of his mistress's brother) in Aix–en–Provence, in the 1880s
Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque (1943) – bought by Angelina Jolie in 2011, and sold at Christies for £2.285 million in 2021		Winston Churchill
Dedham Vale (1802), Boat–building near Flatford Mill (1815), Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) (1816), Wivenhoe Park (1816), Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1823 and 1825), The Cornfield (1826), Chain Pier, Brighton (1826–7), Hadleigh Castle (1829), Salisbury Cathedral from The Meadows (1831)		John Constable
The White Horse (1819), Stratford Mill (1820), The Hay Wain (1821), View on the Stour Near Dedham (1822), The Lock (1824), The Leaping Horse (1825)
The Assumption of the Virgin (1526–30), a fresco in the cupola of the dome of the cathedral in Parma, in northern Italy, is one of the best–known works of		Antonio da Correggio
The Persistence of Memory (1931 – a.k.a. Melting Watches or Melting Clocks), Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937), Soft Self–Portrait with Fried (some sources say Grilled) Bacon (1941), Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944), Christ of St. John of the Cross (1951 – in Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow), Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954)		Salvador Dali
The Death of Marat (1793), Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801–5)		Jacques–Louis David
Interior of a Woman Drinking with Two Men, and a Maidservant		Pieter de Hooch
Liberty Leading the People (1830 – featured on the cover of Coldplay's 2008 album Viva La Vida)		Eugène Delacroix
Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, The Large Glass (full title The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even)		Marcel Duchamp
Praying Hands (pen & ink drawing, c. 1508); Knight, Death and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514), Melencolia I (1514) – "master prints"; Rhinoceros (woodcut, 1515)		Albrecht Dürer
The Chess Players, The Swimming Hole		Thomas Eakins
The Swing		Jean–Honore Fragonard
Specialised in "narrative" paintings of the Victorian era, including The Derby Day and The Railway Station (the latter being a study of Paddington)		William Powell Frith
The Nightmare (two versions); The Night–Hag visiting Lapland Witches; Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of the Baker and Butler (British painter of German–Swiss origins, 1741–1825)		Henry Fuseli
Mr. & Mrs. Andrews (c. 1750); Mary and Margaret: the Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1756); Portrait of Mrs. Graham (1775); The Blue Boy (1779); The Pink Boy (1770s); William Hallett and his wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen – known as The Morning Walk (1785); Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher (1785); Mrs. Siddons (1785); The Market Cart (1786); The Watering Place (1827)		Thomas Gainsborough
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?		Paul Gauguin
The Raft of the Medusa		Théodore Géricault
The Disasters of War (a series of 82 'prints', 1810–20); Naked Maja, Clothed Maja; Saturn Devouring his Son (one of the so–called 'Black Paintings')		Francisco Goya
The Disrobing of Christ (1577–9), The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586), Saint Martin and the Beggar (c. 1598)		El Greco
The Laughing Cavalier (1624), The Merry Company, The Merry Drinker		Franz Hals
Two portraits of Elizabeth I: the Pelican Portrait and the Phoenix Portrait (both c. 1572–6)		Nicholas Hilliard
The Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich (1914), Neuschwanstein (undated) – sold at auction, respectively, for €130,000 in 2014 and €400,000 in 2015		Adolf Hitler
The Water Mill (1663–8), The Avenue at Middelharnis (1689)		Meindert Hobbema
We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961, aged 24); Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool (1966); A Bigger Splash (1967); Mr. & Mrs. Clark and Percy (1970–1); Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972)		David Hockney
A Harlot's Progress (a series of six paintings, 1731), A Rake's Progress (a series of eight, 1735), Marriage à–la–Mode (a series of six, 1743–5); Gin Lane, Beer Street (both 1751), The Four Stages of Cruelty (a series of four, also 1751 – sold as prints, priced 1s 6d each)		William Hogarth
36 Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1831) – the first and most famous of which is The Great Wave off Kanagawa		Katsushika Hokusai
The Ambassadors (1533), The Dance of Death (woodcut series, 1523–6); also famous portraits of Henry VIII (c. 1536) and Sir Thomas More (1527)		Hans Holbein the Younger
The Light of the World; The Scapegoat (two versions) (pre–Raphaelite)		William Holman Hunt
Nighthawks (1942)		Edward Hopper
Leading British Post–Impressionist: noted for portraits of Dylan Thomas, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Tallulah Bankhead and George Bernard Shaw (among others)		Augustus John
Flag (1954–5) – a depiction of the US national flag		Jasper Johns
Diego y yo (Diego and Me, 1949) – sold for $34.9m (£25m) in November 2021 at Sotheby's in New York		Frida Kahlo
Judith and the Head of Holofernes (1901), Danaë (1907), Portrait of Adele Bloch–Bauer (I 1907, II 1912), The Kiss (1908 – "an erotic explosion of love")		Gustav Klimt
The Monarch of the Glen (1851)		Sir Edwin Landseer
Charles William Lambton – a.k.a. Master Lambton or The Red Boy (1825)		Sir Thomas Lawrence
Look Mickey (1961); Drowning Girl, Whaam!, Bratatat!, Varoom! (all 1963); Masterpiece (1962) – sold in 2017 for $165 million		Roy Lichtenstein
Virgin of the Rocks (two very similar versions, 1483–1508; one in the Louvre, one in the British National Gallery, London); Lady with an Ermine (1489–91); The Last Supper (1498 – fresco, in the Refectory of the ‌Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, in Milan); Mona Lisa (a.k.a. La Gioconda – 1503–7)		Leonardo da Vinci
Going to the Match (painted for a competition run by the Football Association, 1953, originally titled Football Ground; commonly said (but with little or no concrete evidence) to show Burnden Park, home of Bolton Wanderers until 1997; bought by the Professional Footballers' Association in 1999 for £1.9 million		L. S. Lowry
The Treachery of Images (1928–9: a series of pictures of a pipe, with the inscription Ceci n'est pas une pipe)		René Magritte
Elective Affinities (1933: an egg filling a bird cage)
Not to be Reproduced (1937: a man looking in a mirror, seen from behind, but his reflection is also from behind)
Time Transfixed (1938: a steam train emerging from a fireplace)
Golconda (1953: lots of men in business dress, suspended in mid–air in a suburban street scene)
The Son of Man (1964: a man in a bowler hat, with an apple in front of his face)
Olympia; The Execution of (The Emperor) Maximillian; A Bar at the Folies Bergeres; Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the grass)		Edouard Manet
The Green Stripe, Woman with a Hat, Notre Dame, Odalisque, The Pink Nude, The Dance, The Dessert: Harmony in Red (a.k.a. The Red Room), The Snail (L'escargot – a collage)		Henri Matisse
South Bank Show: two hands come from The Creation of Adam by		Michelangelo
Bubbles (used in a Pear's soap advert), The Boyhood of Raleigh, Christ in the House of his Parents (controversial in its day for its realism), A Jersey Lily (portrait of Lillie Langtry) – pre–Raphaelite painter		John Everett Millais
The Reapers (1854), The Gleaners (1857), The Angelus (1859)		Jean–Francois Millet
World Trade Center Tapestry (1974) was one of the most valuable works of art lost on 9/11		Joan Miró
The Red Tree (1908–10), The Grey Tree (1912), Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Grey (1926), Trafalgar Square (1939–43), New York City I (1942), Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942–3), Victory Boogie Woogie (1944)		Piet Mondrian
Composition No. 10 (Pier and Ocean) (1915), Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue (1921), Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow (1930), Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue (1937–42 – a.k.a. Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red)
Impression, Sunrise (1872) – the work said to have given the name to the Impressionist movement; famously painted several series of similar views in different lighting conditions, notably Haystacks (1888–91), Rouen cathedral (1892–4) and the Palace of Westminster (1899–1901)		Claude Monet
La Belle Iseult, in the Tate Gallery – also inaccurately called Queen Guinevere – is the only surviving easel painting by		William Morris
The Scream (a series of images, 1893–1910, depicting an agonised figure against a blood–red sky)		Edvard Munch
Australian, principally famous for a series of portraits of Ned Kelly		Sir Sidney Nolan
A White Duck (1753)		Jean Baptiste Oudrey
Guernica (depicts the bombing of a Basque town in the Spanish Civil War); Les Demoiselles d'Avignon		Pablo Picasso
Stained glass windows in Coventry Cathedral		John Piper
The Harvest		Camille Pissarro
No. 5, 1948 – sold for a record $140 million in 2006; No. 17A (also 1948) made $200 million (another record) in 2016 – both sold by music and film executive David Geffen		Jackson Pollock
Et in Arcadia Ego (1637–8)		Nicolas Poussin
Arthur George Carrick – watercolour Farm Building in Norfolk accepted for exhibition by the Royal Academy, January 2007 – is a pseudonym of		Prince Charles
The School of Athens, Disputa (Vatican frescoes), Vision of a Knight		Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp (1632); Belshazzar's Feast (1635–8 – in the National Gallery, London); The Night Watch (1642); Christ Healing the Sick (etching, a.k.a. the Hundred Guilder Print, c. 1648); Young Woman at an Open Half–Door (1645); The Mill (1645–8); Bathsheba At Her Bath (1654); The Sampling Officials, a.k.a. Syndics of the Drapers' Guild (1662); also almost 100 self–portraits, including 40 paintings		Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Girl with the Blue Ribbon, The Bathers (and other variations on that title!), The Box (La Loge), The Umbrellas (Les Parapluies), Luncheon of the Boating Party		Pierre–Auguste Renoir
Mrs. Pelham Feeding Chickens; Age of Innocence; portraits of Dr. Johnson, Captain Robert Orme, Lady Cockburn, Sarah Siddons		Sir Joshua Reynolds
Mexican artist, 1886–1957: Man at the Crossroads (1933 mural at the Rockefeller Centre, New York; sacked by Rockefeller when he realised that the work contained communist imagery including a portrait of Lenin); also Detroit Industry (a series of murals in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1932)		Diego Rivera
Popular American artist: works include The Four Freedoms (1943), Saying Grace (1951), The Scoutmaster (1963), The Problem We All Live With (1964)		Norman Rockwell
The Rape of the Sabines, The Felt Hat; The Judgement of Paris		Peter Paul Rubens
The Raising of the Cross (1610) and The Descent from the Cross (1611–1614) – altarpieces for the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp
The Adoration of the Magi (King's College Chapel, Cambridge)
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884: a leading example of the pointillism technique, and said to have initiated the Neo–Impressionist movement)		Georges Seurat
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882 – originally titled Portraits d'enfants); and the controversial Portrait of Madame X (1884)		John Singer Sargent
Welcome to Kuala Lumpur (a portrait of Thatcher, with squinty eyes and buck teeth)		Ruskin Spear
The Resurrection, Cookham (1927 – the dead rising from their graves in the churchyard of his beloved home village)		Stanley Spencer
1766 treatise The Anatomy of the Horse		George Stubbs
Portrait of Churchill, commissioned by Parliament as an 80th birthday present, later destroyed by his widow; high altar tapestry Christ Reigning in Glory in Coventry Cathedral		Graham Sutherland
The Tribute Money, Bacchus and Ariadne, Diana Surprised by Actaeon		Titian (Tiziano Vecelli)
Chinese Girl (a.k.a. The Green Lady) – hugely successful as a print		Vladimir Tretchikoff
Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps (1812)		J. M. W. Turner
The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up (1838)
Snow Storm: Steam–Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
Rail, Steam and Speed: the Great Western Railway (1844)
Famous altarpiece at St. Bavon's Cathedral, Ghent (c. 1425 – 1432)		Hubert & Jan Van Eyck
The Arnolfini Marriage (1434), Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (c.1435), Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele (c. 1435), Lucca Madonna (c. 1437)		Jan van Eyck
Sorrow (1882), The Potato Eaters (1885), Sunflowers (1887), Bedroom in Arles (1888), Starry Night over the Rhône (1888), The Sower (after Jean–François Millet – 1888), The Starry Night (1889), Portrait of Doctor Gachet (1890), Wheatfield with Crows (1890), Self–Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889), Self–Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe (1889), Café Terrace at Night (painted in 1888, and first exhibited in 1891 as Café, le Soir)		Vincent van Gogh
The Rokeby Venus (a.k.a. The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, or Venus and Cupid); Las Meninas (The Maids) – a portrait of the Infanta Margherita and her entourage		Diego Velázquez velazquez
Portrait of Innocent X (c. 1650) – the inspiration for a series of at least 45 paintings by Irish–born Francis Bacon, executed over a 20–year period beginning in the 1940s and sometimes referred to as 'the screaming popes'
(Young) Woman with a Pearl Necklace (1664), The Girl with the Wine Glass (c. 1669), The Music Lesson, or A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman (1662–5), The Concert (c. 1664), Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665), Girl with the Red Hat (c. 1665–6), Mistress and Maid (1666–7), The Art (or Allegory) of Painting (c. 1666–8), The Astronomer (c. 1668), The Geographer (1669), Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid (c. 1670–1), The Allegory of Faith (1670–2), Lady Seated at a Virginal (c. 1670–2), The Lacemaker (1669–70), The Guitar Player (c.1672)		Johannes (Jan) Vermeer
The Singing Butler, Along Came a Spider (the latter bought by Alex Ferguson)		Jack Vettriano
Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Marilyn Diptich (1962), Eight Elvises (1963)		Andy Warhol
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1 (1871) – a portrait of his mother; Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge		James McNeill Whistler
American Gothic (1930 – iconic portrait of a farmer and his wife or daughter)		Grant Wood
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768)		Joseph Wright of Derby
And When Did You Last See Your Father?		William Frederick Yeames

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