Historical Archives & Public Figures

Eva Gonzalès

French Second Republic

1849 – 1883 (34 years old)

French Impressionist painter and sole formal pupil of Édouard Manet whose tender, luminous canvases like 'A Box at the Théâtre des Italiens' captured Paris cultural life.

Paris, France

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Édouard Manet

France

1832 – 1883 (51 years old)

French modernist painter who served as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

Paris, France

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Germany

22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883 (69 years old)

Revolutionary German composer and dramatist who revolutionized Western music with the 'Gesamtkunstwerk' (total work of art), the leitmotif system, chromatic breakdown of tonality in Tristan und Isolde, and the 16-hour Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Venice, Italy

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Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Kingdom of Great Britain

1828 – 1882 (53 years old)

Founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, poet, and painter whose haunting portraits of Elizabeth Siddal and Jane Morris ('Proserpine', 'Beata Beatrix') launched the Aesthetic movement.

Birchington-on-Sea, United Kingdom

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Modest Mussorgsky

Модест Петрович Мусоргский

Russian Empire

1839 – 1881 (42 years old)

Visionary Russian composer of 'The Mighty Handful' celebrated for Boris Godunov and Pictures at an Exhibition.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Honoré Daumier

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

France

1808 – 1879 (70 years old)

Master French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor who fiercely exposed bourgeois hypocrisy and social injustice.

Paris, France

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Gustave Courbet

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet

France

1819 – 1877 (58 years old)

Bold pioneer of 19th-century French Realism who rejected academic idealism to portray real working-class life.

Ornans, France

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Georges Bizet

France

1838 – 1875 (36 years old)

French Romantic composer who created Carmen, one of the most popular and influential operas in the global repertoire.

Paris, France

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Jean Frédéric Bazille

Frédéric Bazille

Kingdom of France

1841 – 1870 (28 years old)

Brilliant early Impressionist painter who shared his studio with Monet, Renoir, and Sisley, painted 'The Family Reunion', and died tragically in battle at age twenty-eight.

Montpellier, France

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz

France

1803 – 1869 (65 years old)

Radical French Romantic composer whose Symphonie fantastique and Treatise on Orchestration redefined the modern orchestra.

Paris, France

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Papal States (Italy)

1792 – 1868 (76 years old)

Prolific Italian master of bel canto opera, world-renowned for The Barber of Seville and the iconic William Tell Overture.

Florence, Italy

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

France

1780 – 1867 (86 years old)

French Neoclassical master of curvilinear draftsmanship, porcelain flesh tones, and iconic exotic odalisques.

Paris, France

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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix

France

26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863 (65 years old)

Supreme leader of the French Romantic movement in visual art whose vibrant expressive color, tempestuous brushwork, and revolutionary masterpiece Liberty Leading the People inspired the Impressionists and Modernists.

Paris, France

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Utagawa Hiroshige (Andō Hiroshige)

歌川広重

Japan

1797 – 12 October 1858 (~61 years old)

Last great master of classical Japanese ukiyo-e landscape prints, whose lyrical atmospheric depictions in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo deeply inspired Vincent van Gogh and Western Impressionism.

Edo (Tokyo), Japan

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Mikhail Glinka

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Russian Empire

1804 – 1857 (52 years old)

Russian composer acclaimed as the father of Russian classical music, who liberated Russian music from foreign dominance with 'A Life for the Tsar' and 'Ruslan and Lyudmila'.

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia

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Théodore Chassériau

Captaincy General of Santo Domingo

1819 – 1856 (37 years old)

Dominican-born French Romantic master who brilliantly bridged the classical linear purity of Ingres with the passionate sensual colorism of Delacroix.

Paris, France

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Robert Alexander Schumann

Robert Schumann

Germany

8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856 (46 years old)

Supreme German Romantic composer and influential critic whose poetic piano cycles (Carnaval, Kreisleriana), passionate lieder year of 1840 (Dichterliebe), and advocacy for Brahms defined the Romantic spirit.

Endenich (Bonn), Germany

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John Martin

Kingdom of Great Britain

1789 – 1854 (64 years old)

English Romantic painter and engraver celebrated for his apocalyptic biblical visions of cosmic catastrophe and colossal architecture, including 'The Great Day of His Wrath'.

Braddan, Isle of Man

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