The Belgian artist who set the tone for British portraiture
A baroque painter of fussy British portraits set in Renaissance-style scenes
A Titan of England's early baroque era
A 17C Dutch genre painter who mastered the genre of peasants having fun
The baroque master of chiaroscuro, turning the dance of darkness and light into story and character
One of the greatest baroque Flemish painters, astoundingly prolific and fond of fleshy women
By a long shot the best Italian rococo painter
A classicist French baroque painter
A French rococo baroque painter of grandly theatrical works
18C French court painter or baroque portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes
An 18C French rococo master of pastel scenes and frolicking lovers
A baroque master devoted to depicting typical life during the Dutch Golden Age
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