Art Challenge – Test Your Knowledge of Famous Painters

Caspar Friedrich (1774-1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins.

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born artist noted for his paintings of nocturnal London and for his striking and stylistically advanced full-length portraits.

Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives.

Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) was a French painter and sculptor famed for the remarkable accuracy and detail of her pictures featuring animals.

Doménikos Theotokópoulos or El Greco (1541-1614) was a master of Spanish painting, whose highly individual dramatic and expressionistic style met with the puzzlement of his contemporaries but gained newfound appreciation in the 20th century.

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors.

Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989) was an Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She wrote extensively on the art of the period. She was commissioned to paint a portrait of President Kennedy and noted that he never sat still.

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century, whose work formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th century Cubism.

Botticelli (1445-1510) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli’s posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work.

Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) was a French painter and sculptor famed for the remarkable accuracy and detail of her pictures featuring animals.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor who sought to achieve a “primitive” expression of spiritual and emotional states in his work. The artist is particularly well known for his creative relationship with Vincent van Gogh as well as for his self-imposed exile in Tahiti, French Polynesia.

Caspar Friedrich (1774-1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins.

Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives.

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air.

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings, specifically, the subject of dance. He once famously said “I have perhaps too often considered woman as an animal,” referring to his ballerina subjects as “my little monkeys.”