Historical Archives & Public Figures

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

Russia

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

🌐 Dominican Republic

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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Sidi Amor Abada

سيدي عمر عبادة

Tunisia

c. 1790 – 1855 (65 years old)

Visionary 19th-century Sufi saint, prophet-craftsman, and master blacksmith of Kairouan who constructed the spectacular Mosque of the Sabres with its colossal iron swords and six fluted domes.

Kairouan, Tunisia

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John Martin

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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J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Great Britain

1775 – 1851 (76 years old)

England's supreme 'Painter of Light' whose luminous, swirling seascapes and steam locomotives heralded Modernism.

London, United Kingdom

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Sidi Kaddour El Alami

سيدي قدور العلمي

Morocco

1742 – 1850 (108 years old)

Supreme classical master of Moroccan Melhun poetry whose timeless qasidas, notably 'Dar Sidi Kaddour', defined the golden age of urban lyrical song.

Meknes, Morocco

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Frédéric François Chopin (Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin)

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Frédéric François Chopin (Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin)

Fryderyk Chopin

Poland

1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849 (39 years old)

Polish musical genius and 'Poet of the Piano' whose nocturnes, ballades, polonaises, and études revolutionized piano technique and embodied the heroic yearning (*żal*) of Polish national identity.

Paris, France

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Katsushika Hokusai

葛飾北斎

Japan

31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849 (~89 years old)

Supreme master of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printing whose iconic series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji—above all The Great Wave off Kanagawa—captivated the world and inspired European Impressionism and Japonisme.

Edo (Tokyo), Japan

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti

Italy

1797 – 1848 (50 years old)

Leading Italian bel canto composer renowned for his dramatic tragedy Lucia di Lammermoor and comic gem L'elisir d'amore.

Bergamo, Italy

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Germany

1809 – 1847 (38 years old)

German early Romantic composer, pianist, and conductor celebrated for his luminous melodies and revival of J.S. Bach's music.

Berlin, Germany

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Bertel Thorvaldsen

Denmark

1770 – 1844 (73 years old)

Danish master sculptor of Neoclassicism whose severe classical purity rivaled Canova, creator of the 'Lion of Lucerne' and the majestic Christus statue in Copenhagen Cathedral.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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