Historical Archives & Public Figures

Johann Heinrich Füssli

Old Swiss Confederacy

1741 – 1825 (84 years old)

Swiss-born British Romantic painter and professor whose chilling masterpiece 'The Nightmare' (1781) introduced gothic terror, eroticism, and the irrational subconscious into Western art.

London, United Kingdom

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Théodore Géricault

Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault

France

1791 – 1824 (32 years old)

Pioneering French Romantic painter whose dramatic tour de force The Raft of the Medusa launched the Romantic movement.

Paris, France

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Antonio Canova

Republic of Venice

1757 – 1822 (64 years old)

Foremost Neoclassical sculptor in Europe whose breathtaking marble masterpieces—including 'Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss'—brought Greek marble elegance back to the modern world.

Possagno, Italy

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Torii Kiyonaga

鳥居清長

Japan

c. 1752 – 1815 (63 years old)

Master Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker of the late eighteenth century, celebrated for depicting statuesque, tall, elegant beauties (bijin-ga) integrated naturally into outdoor urban landscapes.

Ryogoku (Tokyo), Japan

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Claude Michel

Claude Michel (Clodion)

Duchy of Lorraine

1738 – 1814 (75 years old)

French master sculptor whose light, sensuous terracotta statuettes of bacchantes, satyrs, and nymphs captured the playful joy and supreme delicacy of late Rococo art.

Paris, France

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Franz Joseph Haydn

Austria

31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809 (77 years old)

Foundational giant of the Viennese Classical period whose 106 symphonies and 68 string quartets established the classical sonata form, mentoring Mozart and Beethoven and creating the sublime oratorio The Creation.

Vienna, Austria

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Kitagawa Utamaro

喜多川歌麿

Japan

c. 1753 – 1806 (53 years old)

Supreme master of ukiyo-e woodblock printing renowned worldwide for his intimate 'okubi-e' (large-head close-up portraits) of women, capturing subtle feminine psychological states.

Setagaya (Tokyo), Japan

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Kingdom of France

1732 – 1806 (74 years old)

French Rococo master painter whose exuberant, fluid brushwork and playful romantic masterworks like 'The Swing' (L'Escarpolette) captured the joie de vivre of the Ancien Régime.

Paris, France

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Luigi Boccherini

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini

Republic of Lucca

1743 – 1805 (62 years old)

Italian Classical composer and cello virtuoso celebrated for his courtly galant chamber music, pioneering string quintets, and the immortal 'Minuet' from String Quintet Op. 11, No. 5.

Madrid, Spain

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Giandomenico Tiepolo

Republic of Venice

1727 – 1804 (76 years old)

Venetian master painter and son of Giambattista Tiepolo whose witty, theatrical frescoes of Pulcinella and Carnival scenes captured the whimsical collapse of the Venetian Republic.

Venice, Italy

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George Romney

Kingdom of Great Britain

1734 – 1802 (67 years old)

Prominent English society portrait painter of the Georgian era celebrated for his fashionable society sitters and dozens of luminous, idealized portraits of Emma Hamilton.

Kendal, United Kingdom

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Francesco Lazzaro Guardi

Francesco Guardi

🌐 Republic of Venice

1712 – 1793 (80 years old)

Last great master of the Venetian veduta whose shimmering, painterly brushwork (pittura di tocco) and poetic capriccios anticipated 19th-century Impressionism.

Venice, Italy

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Sir Joshua Reynolds

Joshua Reynolds

Kingdom of Great Britain

1723 – 1792 (68 years old)

First President of the Royal Academy of Arts whose 'Discourses on Art' championed the 'Grand Style' and who elevated British portraiture to heroic neoclassical dignity.

London, United Kingdom

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Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

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Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austria

27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791 (35 years old)

Transcendent child prodigy and supreme musical genius whose unmatched elegance, dramatic psychology, and melodic perfection across over 600 works—including Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, and the Requiem—define the peak of Classical music.

Vienna, Archduchy of Austria

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Saxe-Weimar

1714 – 1788 (74 years old)

Second surviving son of J.S. Bach, court harpsichordist to Frederick the Great, pioneer of the dramatic Empfindsamer Stil, and primary musical influence on Haydn and Mozart.

Hamburg, Free Imperial City of Hamburg

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Thomas Gainsborough

Kingdom of Great Britain

1727 – 1788 (61 years old)

Founding member of the Royal Academy and master portraitist whose 'The Blue Boy' and lyrical landscapes captured British elegance with feathery brushstrokes and natural ease.

London, United Kingdom

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck

Germany

1714 – 1787 (73 years old)

Bohemian-German composer who reformed classical opera, subordinating vocal display to dramatic truth and theatrical unity.

Vienna, Austria

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Johann Christian Bach

Saxony

1735 – 1782 (46 years old)

Youngest son of J.S. Bach, known as the 'London Bach', who pioneered the Classical symphonic style, established public subscription concerts, and was a formative mentor to young Mozart.

London, Great Britain

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