The 19th century is the heyday of both world and Russian painting. During this period, the key trends in the painting of Western Europe are romanticism, realism, impressionism, neo-impressionism and post-impressionism, pre-Raphaelism. If you need to compile a list of 19th century artists, it is better to structure it according to the directions that these artists represented, as well as the countries that were the centers of development of these directions.
Western European painters of the 19th century
The list should start with representatives of Western European painting of the 19th century, France was still considered the world cultural center at that time (even starting from the 17th century), and romanticism was the artistic style that opened the era. Oddly enough, on the Internet it is much easier to find information about the representatives of romanticism in painting in general than about French artists of the 19th century. For example, you can refer to the information provided on the site smollbay.ru, which lists the romantic artists not only in France, but also in other countries. By the way, the list of representatives of romanticism in 19th century painting should be started with one of its founders - the Spaniard Francisco Goya. You can also include the names of Jacques Louis David, whose work occupies a borderline state between classicism and romanticism, and the "true romantics" Theodore Gericault and Eugene Delacroix.
Romanticism is being replaced by realistic painting, which also originated in France. A rather capacious article about this direction is contained in the "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron", on the Internet its text can be read at dic.academic.ru. Honore Daumier, Gustave Courbet and Jean Francois Millet should be attributed to the representatives of realism in the visual arts of France, first of all.
One of the brightest pages in the history of French painting is the emergence and development of impressionism. Information about impressionist painters is quite easy to find by referring to the sites hudojnik-impressionist.ru, impressionism.ru, as well as to numerous printed publications on this subject, for example, “Impressionism. The Illustrated Encyclopedia "by Ivan Mosin," Impressionism. The Enchanted Moment "by Natalia Sinelnikova," The History of World Painting. Impressionism "by Natalia Skorobogatko. The leading masters here are Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas.
No less common is information about the representatives of neo-impressionism and post-impressionism. You can find it on the already mentioned site smollbay.ru or in the book by Elena Zorina “History of World Painting. Development of impressionism . First of all, the list should be supplemented with the names of Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Such a trend in English painting of the second half of the 19th century as pre-Raphaelism is gaining more and more popularity. The names of its representatives can be found on the sites dic.academic.ru, restorewiki.ru or in the books "Pre-Raphaelism" by Ivan Mosin, "History of World Painting. Victorian Painting and the Pre-Raphaelites”by Natalia Mayorova and Gennady Skokov. The leading masters of this trend are Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Milles, William Holman Hunt, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones.
Masters of Russian painting of the 19th century
It is much easier to compile a list of Russian artists of the 19th century by contacting sites such as www.art-portrets.ru, art19.info or one of the many encyclopedias of Russian painting for information. Here we should highlight the representatives of romanticism (Orest Kiprensky, Vasily Tropinin, Karl Bryullov), artists whose work represents a transition from romanticism to realism (Alexander Ivanov, Pavel Fedotov) and, finally, famous Itinerants (Ilya Repin, Ivan Kramskoy, Vasily Perov, Vasily Surikov, Alexey Savrasov, Ivan Shishkin, Isaac Levitan, Viktor Vasnetsov and many others).
Compiling a list of 19th century artists is not such a difficult task, you just need to make a little effort to find and organize information.
