Historical Archives & Public Figures

Félicien Rops

Belgium

1833 – 1898 (65 years old)

Belgian Symbolist printmaker and illustrator whose dark, erotic, and satirical prints—such as 'Pornokrates'—illustrated Baudelaire and captured the decadent spirit of late 19th-century Europe.

Namur, Belgium

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones

United Kingdom

1833 – 1898 (64 years old)

Leading late Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist painter whose dreamy Arthurian legends, stained glass for William Morris, and masterworks like 'The Golden Stairs' brought medieval romance to life.

Brighton, United Kingdom

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Gustave Moreau

Kingdom of France

1826 – 1898 (72 years old)

Patriarch of French Symbolism whose jewel-encrusted, mythological masterworks like 'The Apparition' and 'Jupiter and Semele' mentored Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault.

Paris, France

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Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin

Иван Иванович Шишкин

Russian Empire

1832 – 1898 (66 years old)

Supreme Russian landscape painter of majestic pine forests and ancient oak groves whose masterwork 'Morning in a Pine Forest' is the most recognizable painting in Russian culture.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Johannes Brahms

Germany

7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897 (63 years old)

Towering master of German Late Romanticism whose rigorous classical counterpoint, four monumental symphonies, Violin Concerto, and Ein deutsches Requiem upheld Beethoven's heritage with profound autumn warmth.

Vienna, Austria

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Antonio Carlos Gomes

Antônio Carlos Gomes

Empire of Brazil

1836 – 1896 (60 years old)

Brazilian composer who was the first New World opera composer to achieve triumphant success in Europe, renowned for his 1870 opera Il Guarany staged at La Scala in Milan.

Campinas (Sao Paulo), Brazil

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Sir John Everett Millais

John Everett Millais

United Kingdom

1829 – 1896 (67 years old)

Prodigy co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood whose botanical tour-de-force 'Ophelia' (1851) and 'Christ in the House of His Parents' are crowns of Victorian British art.

London, United Kingdom

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Berthe Morisot

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot

France

1841 – 1895 (54 years old)

Founding French Impressionist painter celebrated for her delicate brushwork, luminous light, and sensitive domestic portraits.

Paris, France

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Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge

Николай Николаевич Ге

Russian Empire

1831 – 1894 (63 years old)

Russian realist painter and close friend of Leo Tolstoy whose dramatic biblical confrontations—such as 'What is Truth?' (Christ and Pilate)—revolutionized religious painting.

Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine

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Gustave Caillebotte

French Second Republic

1848 – 1894 (45 years old)

Pioneering Impressionist painter of Haussmann's modern Paris ('Paris Street; Rainy Day') and generous patron whose bequest founded the national Impressionist collection in the Musée d'Orsay.

Paris, France

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Пётр Ильич Чайковский

Russia

7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893 (53 years old)

Foremost Russian composer of the Romantic era whose incomparable melodic sweep and emotional intensity created the definitive ballet classics (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty) and the tragic Pathétique Symphony.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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John Atkinson Grimshaw

United Kingdom

1836 – 1893 (57 years old)

Victorian master painter whose atmospheric nocturnes of gaslit wet cobblestone streets, moonlit autumn estates, and misty shipping docks rivaled Whistler.

Leeds, United Kingdom

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Georges Seurat

Georges Pierre Seurat

France

1859 – 1891 (31 years old)

French Post-Impressionist master who pioneered Pointillism and optical chromoluminarism.

Paris, France

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Vincent Willem van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

Netherlands

30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 (37 years old)

Tragic Post-Impressionist visionary whose swirling, passionate impasto brushstrokes, incandescent emotional colors, and incandescent canvases (The Starry Night, Sunflowers) fundamentally created modern Expressionism.

Auvers-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise), French Third Republic

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Alexandre Cabanel

Kingdom of France

1823 – 1889 (65 years old)

French academic master whose sensuous 'Birth of Venus' was personally purchased by Emperor Napoleon III in 1863, and whose 'The Fallen Angel' remains an icon of Romantic pathos.

Montpellier, France

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Alexander Borodin

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin

Russian Empire

1833 – 1887 (53 years old)

Russian composer of The Mighty Handful and distinguished professor of organic chemistry, celebrated for 'Prince Igor', the 'Polovtsian Dances', and his Second Symphony.

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

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Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferenc)

Liszt Ferenc

Austria

22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886 (74 years old)

Hungarian musical titan and greatest piano virtuoso in history, who invented the solo piano recital and the orchestral symphonic poem, composed the Hungarian Rhapsodies, and anticipated modern harmony.

Bayreuth, Germany

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Bedřich Smetana

Austria

1824 – 1884 (60 years old)

Father of Czech classical music, celebrated worldwide for his comic opera 'The Bartered Bride' and the magnificent symphonic cycle 'Má vlast' containing the beloved river poem 'Vltava'.

Prague, Bohemia (Austria-Hungary)

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