Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Joseph Wood
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Joseph Wood is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his miniatures and portraits.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Waterman Wood
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Thomas Waterman Wood is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his portraits.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Henry Durrie
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, George Henry Durrie is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting. His influence is also notable in portrait painting and...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Malvin Gray Johnson
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on African American artist of the Harlem Renaissance Malvin Gray Johnson. In addition, an extensive listing of his works as...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Chambers
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Thomas Chambers is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape and portraits. His landscape paintings famously depict the Hudson River...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ralph Earl
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Ralph Earl in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Herbert Katzman
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Herbert Katzman is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his paintings, which showed an influence of French Expressionism.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Henry Brintnell Bounetheau
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Henry Brintnell Bounetheau is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his local acclaim, apparent in his miniature paintings and his work with...
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, Marie
An image of "Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, Marie", created by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1816 (Black chalk on reddish paper, 533 x 423 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Portrait of the Artist's Father
An image of "Portrait of the Artist's Father", created by Pietro Ligariz (Oil on canvas, 98 x 70 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Artist With a Portrait of His Father
An image of "The Artist with a Portrait of his Father", created by Louis Michel Van Loo in 1762 (Oil on canvas, 129 x 198 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Artist Painting a Portrait of a Musician
An image of "Artist Painting a Portrait of a Musician", created by Marguerite Gerard, c. 1803 (Oil on panel, 61 x 52 cm).
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Inside Scoop: Rembrandt [Pdf]
A printable, kid-friendly introduction to the art of Rembrandt. Includes a suggested art activity and simple art analysis questions.
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Claude Monet
This site presents a detailed biography of Claude Monet, as well as images of many of his works. His work is broken into numerous sub-sections for display purposes, and many include detailed accounts of the work.
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Vincent Van Gogh
A Webmuseum English biographical essay of Vincent van Gogh, with a number of art illustrations.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Raphael
Enlarged image from Olga's Gallery of Portrait of Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de Medici and Luigi de Rossi
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: David Hockney
A biography of David Hockney, Pop artist. Examples of his work with some explanation. There is a link to a short discussion on the Pop movement.
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Robert Feke
Brief biography of artist Robert Feke, the early American artist who painted "Isaac Royall and his Family."
Other
Art in Context: Images Portraiture
The Art in Context site displays a series of portraits which may be enlarged. Clicking on the artist's name results in more information on galleries and exhibitions and other images by the artist. The site may be searched by artist's...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice
7 full-color images from Italian Renaissance artists. Three of the works are from Giorgione. Click on each to find a short explanation and analysis.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Nicholas Hilliard
Biographical summary of the life and career of Nicholas Hilliard, British artist of portrait miniatures during the Renaissance.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charles Wells
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Charles Wells is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with sculpture and portraits.
National Library of France
National Library of France: Face to Face
This portrait gallery of diverse approaches to representing the face and the human figure is rich in style and technique. A useful resource for comparing and contrasting how different artists figure out what makes portraiture interesting.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Art Picasso
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews some characteristics of Picasso's style of painting and invites students to draw their own Picasso portrait! It includes some Activote questions and some excellent websites for...