Masterpiece Makers

25 . Vincent van Gogh

24. Paul Cézanne

23. Mary Cassatt

Best known for her portrayal of domestic scenes as well as the intimate bond between a mother and child, she loved to use bright colors and an unabashed realistic style.

22. Berthe Morisot

Known as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism, she is famous for painting scenes from domestic life: family, children, ladies, beautiful gardens and flowers

21. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

He believed that art should celebrate life, beauty and the joy of each moment. Known for his soft, feathery brush strokes in his colorful paintings, he primarily depicted

20. Claude Monet

He was compelled to capture the constantly changing and atmosphere altering light. The way it cast its beauty on land and water — the way it changed the shades and tones

19. Edgar Degas

He was called "the painter of dancers" but it wasn't the dancers he wanted to capture—it was the movement. From dancers to horse races to scenes of everyday life, he want

18. Édouard Manet

He loved the lines and beauty of classical art, yet he wanted to paint that beauty in a modern setting and experiment with his own techniques. And although he desperate

17. John Everett Millais

He was a child prodigy who, at the age of eleven, became the youngest student to enter London's Royal Academy School of Art. Later he would become one of the founding m

16. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

He was born into an Italian family steeped in a rich cultural and literary heritage which greatly influenced him throughout his life. Often torn between either being an a

15. Henry Osawwa Tanner

His mother was born a slave, but escaped to Pennsylvania via the Underground Railroad and was a free woman by the time he was born. And although he wanted to establish

14. Jean-Francois Millet

Born a peasant, he proudly proclaimed that he would die a peasant. All he had ever known was rural country life, hard-working farmers toiling over the earth. These scen

13. JMW Turner

As an artist he brought luminosity, expression, atmosphere, and turbulence to his landscape and seascape paintings. His abstract brushstrokes and palette knife paintings

12. Francisco de Goya

Described as one of the old masters by some, and the first modern painter by others, this artist is truly in a class all by himself. Though he began during the Rococo per

11. Angelica Kauffman

In the 1770s, a London engraver remarked, "The whole world is Angelicamad," about a Swiss artist. This was a woman who followed her passion and was so good at what she di

10. Jacques-Louis David

Referred to as a "political chameleon," he painted whatever the man in power at the time wanted. Whether it was in the frivolous Rococo style for Louis XVI, propaganda

9. Jean-Honoré Fragonard

He was a painter during the Rococo period, and one of the most decadent eras in history – the reign of Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette.  His paintings exuded t

8. Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

In her lifetime, she painted 200 landscapes and 660 portraits. In fact, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was considered one of the most prominent French portrait painters o

7. Johannes Vermeer

Although today he is known as the "Master of Light," Johannes Vermeer is also referred to as the "Sphinx of Delft" because there is so little we truly know about him. I

6. Rembrandt van Rijn

When you really love yourself and you think you're incredibly beautiful, why not paint yourself over and over and over? That's  exactly what Rembrandt did. In fact, he pa