Artist Names: The ultimate comprehensive list, from Ayala to Zoffany
By K. M Sheard, Nook of Names
I’ve been musing for a while now on the rich mine of names that are the surnames of artists.
Many of them have a great ring in themselves, as well as carrying strong artistic connotations.
With the most famous, it is as though their names “mean” their paintings.
Say Monet, for instance, and lovely, soft, impressionistc images float into the mind.
Here, then, is my pick of the artists:
Beaux – Cecilia Beaux, American (1855-1942)
Carriera – Rosalba Carriera, Italian (1675-1757)
Cassatt – Mary Cassatt, American (1844-1926)
Constable – John Constable, English (1776-1837)
Copley – John Singleton Copley, American (1737-1815)
Cosway – Richard Cosway, English (1742-1821), and his wife Maria Cosway, Italian (1760-1838)
Dali – Salvador Domènec Felipe Jacinto Dalí I Domènech, Marquis de Púbol, Spanish (1904-89)
Emin – Tracey Emin, British (b.1963)
Galizia – Fede Galizia, Italian (1578-1630)
Gainsborough – Thomas Gainsborough, English (1727-88)
Gogh – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (1853-90)
Hunt – see Holman
Klimt – Gustave Klimt, Austrian (1862-1918)
Lavery – Sir John Lavery, Irish (1856-1941)
Leighton – Frederick, Lord Leighton, English (1830-96), also see Blair
Lely – Sir Peter Lely, Anglo-Dutch (1618-80)
Leyster – Judith Leyster, Dutch (1609-60)
Miró — Joan Miró i Ferrà, Catalan (1893-1983)
Opie — John Opie, Cornish (1761-1807) — his wife Amelia was a novelist; Julian Opie, British (b. 1958)
Orpen – Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, Irish (1878-1931)
Ozenda — Ozenda, Francçois (1923-76)
Redon – Odilon Redon, French (1840-1916)
Singer – see Sargent
Sirani – Elisabetta Sirani, Italian (1638-65), and her father Giovanni Andrea Sirani (1610-70
Tadema – see Alma
Vermeer — Jan Vermeer, Dutch (1632-75)
Veronese – Paolo Veronese, Italian (1528-88)
Whistler – James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (1834-1903)
This blog appeared previously in Nook of Names.
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