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John Gould
1804 – 1881English ornithologist
1356 works


Alfred Rudolph Waud
1828 – 1891American artist and illustrator
887 works


Leslie Matthew Ward
1851 – 1922British cartoonist
EtonLondon736 works


James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 – 1903American painter
ParisValparaísoWest Point704 works


John Singer Sargent
1856 – 1925American painter
CairoFlorenceJerusalem656 works


Alphonse Legros
1837 – 1911French painter, etcher and sculptor
AmsterdamDijonParis487 works


Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833 – 1898British Pre-Raphaelite painter
BirminghamLondonOxford453 works


Kate Greenaway
1846 – 1901British artist
London450 works


Owen Jones
1809 – 1874British architect
City of WestminsterLondon436 works


Edwin Austin Abbey
1852 – 1911American illustrator and painter
LondonNew HavenPhiladelphia411 works


Walter Crane
1845 – 1915English artist and book illustrator
London356 works


Henri Fantin-Latour
1836 – 1904French painter and printmaker
LondonParis309 works


James Tissot
1836 – 1902French painter and illustrator
LondonParisRamsgate299 works


Vincent van Gogh
1853 – 1890Dutch painter
AntwerpCuesmesLondon289 works


Byam Shaw
1872 – 1919British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher
London286 works


John Samuel Pughe
1870 – 1909American illustrator
279 works


Arthur Rackham
1867 – 1939English book illustrator
City of LondonLondon250 works


Carlo Pellegrini
1839 – 1889Italian caricaturist
London241 works


Henri Matisse
1869 – 1954French artist
Bohain-en-VermandoisIssy-les-MoulineauxLondon238 works


Sir John Tenniel
1820 – 1914British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist
City of Westminster227 works


Alice Pike Barney
1857 – 1931American painter
LondonParisWashington, D.C.222 works


Joseph Wolf
1820 – 1899German artist
Greater London220 works


David Young Cameron
1865 – 1945British artist
City of EdinburghGlasgow City210 works


Percy J. Billinghurst
1871 – 1933illustrator
202 works


George Ashdown Audsley
1838 – 1925British-American architect, decorator, organ builder
Scotland201 works


Edward Lear
1812 – 1888British artist, illustrator, author and poet
191 works


Sir John Everett Millais
1829 – 1896British painter and illustrator
Chamonix-Mont-BlancCity of WestminsterLondon187 works


Joseph Pennell
1857 – 1926American artist and author
LondonNetherlandsZaandam184 works


Matthew Digby Wyatt
1820 – 1877British architect and art historian
181 works


Charles François Daubigny
1817 – 1878French painter
LondonParis172 works


Thomas Moran
1837 – 1926American artist
Lake Como172 works


Alexandre Jacovleff
1887 – 1938Russian painter
LondonMoscowSaint Petersburg155 works


Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1872 – 1898British illustrator and author
Brighton and HoveWestminster154 works


Archibald Thorburn
1860 – 1935British wildlife artist
151 works


Frederic Leighton
1830 – 1896English painter and sculptor
Bezirk MitteBrusselsCity of Westminster148 works


William Simpson
1823 – 1899Scottish artist and war correspondent
148 works


Charles Conder
1868 – 1909English-born Conder grew up in Sydney and Melbourne, joined the Heidelberg School circle and became famous for delicate, silk-painted fans and beach scenes before moving to Europe.
MelbourneSydney44 works


Tom Roberts
1856 – 1931English-born Roberts emigrated to Melbourne as a teenager and became the central figure of the Heidelberg School, best known for Shearing the Rams and Coming South.
MelbourneSydney26 works


Conrad Martens
1801 – 1878Martens sailed as artist on HMS Beagle with Darwin, settled in Sydney in 1835 and became the leading painter of Sydney Harbour and the colony's landscapes.
Sydney22 works


Eugene von Guérard
1811 – 1901Austrian-born von Guérard worked in Australia from 1852 to 1882 and painted finely detailed landscapes of Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania in the Düsseldorf tradition.
Melbourne20 works


Julian Ashton
1851 – 1942English-born Ashton founded the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and urged his students to paint local life and scenery outdoors.
MelbourneSydney19 works


Hugh Ramsay
1877 – 1906Raised in Melbourne, Ramsay studied in Melbourne and Paris and painted striking portraits before dying of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight.
Melbourne18 works


David Davies
1864 – 1939Associated with the Heidelberg School, Davies painted soft evening and moonlit views around Templestowe before settling in Cornwall.
Melbourne14 works


Joseph Backler
1813 – 1895Transported to New South Wales as a convict in 1832, Backler became a portrait and landscape painter in Sydney, active from the 1840s to 1880.
Sydney14 works


Walter Withers
1854 – 1914English-born Withers settled in Melbourne in 1883 and painted the farms, creeks and storms of Heidelberg and Eltham as a Heidelberg School landscapist.
Melbourne14 works


Albert Henry Fullwood
1863 – 1930Fullwood moved to Sydney as a young man, illustrated the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, joined the Heidelberg painters at Sirius Cove and served as an Australian war artist.
MelbourneSydney13 works


George Grosvenor Thomas
1856 – 1923Sydney-born Grosvenor Thomas moved to England and painted impressionist landscapes and still lifes.
Sydney13 works


Sydney Long
1871 – 1955Long turned the Australian landscape into Symbolist and Art Nouveau scenes such as Spirit of the Plains, before moving to London in 1910.
Sydney13 works