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Isaac Ilyich Levitan

Исаак Ильич Левитан

Russia

1860 – 1900 (39 years old)

Foremost Russian landscape painter and Peredvizhnik master whose 'mood landscapes' (Over Eternal Peace, Golden Autumn) captured the melancholic soul of the Russian countryside.

Moscow, Russia

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Ivan Aivazovsky

Hovhannes Aivazian / Иван Константинович Айвазовский

Russia

1817 – 1900 (82 years old)

World-renowned Armenian-Russian marine painter celebrated for breathtaking depictions of stormy seas, translucent waves, and naval battles.

Feodosia, Crimea, Ukraine

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

France

1824 – 1898 (73 years old)

Foremost mural painter of the French Third Republic whose serene, muted monumental frescoes at the Panthéon and Boston Public Library deeply inspired Gauguin and Picasso's Blue Period.

Paris, France

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Félicien Rops

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

Great Britain

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

Gustave Moreau

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

Russia

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

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

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

Great Britain

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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Hadda El Ghiyathia (Kharboucha)

حادة الغياثية خربوشة

Morocco

c. 1870 – c. 1895 (~25 years old)

Legendary 19th-century folk poetess and Cheikha of Aita Hasbaouia from Abda who wielded satirical verse against the tyrannical feudal lord Caïd Aïssa Ben Omar, becoming an immortal icon of popular resistance.

Safi, Morocco

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Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge

Николай Николаевич Ге

Russia

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

Gustave Caillebotte

France

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

John Atkinson Grimshaw

Great Britain

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), France

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