Realist painters

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 146. Chapters: Édouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, Rosa Bonheur, Thomas Eakins, Charles-François Daubigny, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Winslow Homer, Hans Gude, Jack Coggins, Julien Le Blant, Paul Collins, William Morris Hunt, Giovanni Fattori, William B. T. Trego, Josip Racic, Ilya Repin, Stephen Namara, Viktor Vasnetsov, Kent Bellows, John Englehart, Anton Mauve, Paja Jovanovic, Alton Tobey, Harold Weston, Antonio López García, Vasily Vereshchagin, Antoine Vollon, Dana Levin, Valentin Serov, Isaac Levitan, William Bliss Baker, Jules Breton, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Alexander Osmerkin, John Frederick Herring, Sr., Nikolai Ge, Joseph Ducreux, Nicolae Vermont, Théodore Rousseau, Frank Swift Chase, Raphael Soyer, Antonio Guzmán Capel, Henry Herbert La Thangue, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Fyodor Vasilyev, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Alex Colville, Kitty Lange Kielland, Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Perov, Rackstraw Downes, Ivan Kramskoi, Arkhip Kuindzhi, R. B. Sprague, August Schneider, Paul Philippoteaux, Ivan Shishkin, Nicholas Charles Williams, Vasily Polenov, Konstantin Savitsky, Octav Bancila, Fidelia Bridges, Edward Leigh Chase, Dimitar Dobrovich, Heinrich Mücke, Hippolyte Boulenger, Uros Predic, Isaac Soyer, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Vasily Surikov, Mikhail Konstantinovich Clodt, Ernesto de la Cárcova, Mauritz de Haas, Lyndall Bass, Robert Brackman, Neil Faulkner, Julien Dupré, Ralph Hedley, Derek Buckner, Pedro Weingärtner, François Bonvin, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Wilhelm Leibl, Alan Shuptrine, Valery Jacobi, Arkady Plastov, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Vassily Maximov, Apollon Mokritsky, Théodule Ribot, Simon Hollósy, Alexandre Antigna, Geoff Williams, Archibald Herman Muller, Paul Alexandre Protais, Eero Järnefelt, Dmitri Sinodi-Popov, Henry Jones Thaddeus, Félix Ziem, Johann Gottfried Steffan, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Albert Charpin, Victor Lysakov, Theodor Martens, Aleksandr Makovsky, Edward Middleditch, Ruslan Korostenskij, Mór Than, Gavriil Gorelov, Bryan Larsen, Luitpold Adam, Károly Ferenczy, Konstiantyn Trutovsky, Evan Goldman, Adolf von Becker, Ans Markus, Mathurin Janssaud, Marcus Beilby, James Pollard, Fedor Antonov, Miguel Ângelo Lupi, Conrad Hommel, Michael Grimaldi, Manuel Lopes Rodrigues, Josef Dande, Otto Erdmann. Excerpt: Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 - June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some 40 years later, Eakins worked exactingly from life, choosing as his subject the people of his hometown of Philadelphia. He painted several hundred portraits, usually of friends, family members, or prominent people in the arts, sciences, medicine, and clergy. Taken en masse, the portraits offer an overview of the intellectual life of Philadelphia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; individually, they are incisive depictions of thinking persons. As well, Eakins produced a number of large paintings which brought the portrait out of the drawing room and into the offices, streets, parks, rivers, arenas, and surgical amphitheaters of his city. These active outdoor venues allowed him to paint the subject which most inspired him: the nude or lightly clad figure in motion. In the process he could model the forms of the body in full sunli.