Artists & Illustrators

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Search or browse our A–Z list of artists and illustrators represented in the Public Domain Image Library. Each artist page brings together out-of-copyright images, short biographical information and links to available high-resolution downloads. Use the search box if you already have a name in mind, or browse by surname to discover painters, illustrators, poster artists, botanical artists, book illustrators and designers whose work is in the public domain.

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  • Samuel Barret McCormick

    Samuel Barret McCormick (1890-1965) was an American writer, actor, and artist, widely... 

  • William McDowell

    William McDowell (1888-1950) was a painter, draughtsman and commercial artist, born in... 

  • Ambrose McEvoy

    Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA (1877-1927) was an English artist. His early works... 

  • Mary McEvoy

    Mary Augusta McEvoy née Spencer Edwards (1870-1941) was a British artist known... 

  • Thomas McIlvaine

    Thomas McIlvaine (1854-1933) was an American illustrator.  He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania... 

  • Blanche McManus

     Blanche McManus (1869-1935) was an American writer and artist. She and her... 

  • László Mednyánszky

    László Mednyánszky (1852-1919), born Ladislaus Balthasar Mednyánszky, was a distinguished Hungarian painter... 

  • Margaret Meen

    Margaret Meen (1751-1834) was an English watercolour painter. Known for botanical illustrations... 

  • Arthur Melville

    Arthur Melville (1855-1904) was a Scottish painter of Orientalist subjects, among others.... 

  • Hans Memling

    Hans Memling (c.1430-1494) stands as one of the most illustrious painters of... 

  • Giusto de' Menabuoi

    Giusto de' Menabuoi (c.1320-1391) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance.... 

  • Bernard Meninsky

    Bernard Meninsky (1891-1950) was a notable British artist, draughtsman, and teacher whose... 

  • Mortimer Menpes

    Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855-1938) was an Australian-born artist, author, printmaker and illustrator... 

  • Adolph von Menzel

    Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (1815-1905) was a German Realist artist noted... 

  • Maria Sybilla Merian

    Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) was a pioneering figure in the fields of... 

  • Anna Lea Merritt

    Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930) was an accomplished American-born artist who spent much... 

  • Antonello da Messina

    Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) stands as one of the most significant and... 

  • Willard Metcalf

    Willard Metcalf (1859-1925), an American painter born in Lowell, Massachusetts, stands as... 

  • Sidney Meteyard

    Sidney Harold Meteyard RBSA (1868-1947) was an English art teacher, painter and... 

  • Leopoldo Metlicovitz

    Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1868-1944) was an Italian painter, illustrator and poster designer. Together... 

  • Gabriel Metsu

    Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) was a prominent Dutch painter of the Golden Age,... 

  • Michelangelo

    Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), born in Caprese, Italy, remains one of the most... 

  • Frans van Mieris

    Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681) was a celebrated Dutch painter of... 

  • John Guille Millais

    John Guille Millais (1865-1931) was a British artist, naturalist, gardener and travel... 

  • Sir John Everett Millais

    Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was an English painter and illustrator who... 

  • Harold Millar

    Harold Robert Millar (1869-1942) was a prominent and prolific Scottish graphic artist... 

  • Alfred Miller

    Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874) was an American artist best known for his... 

  • Richard Miller

    Richard Edward Miller (1875-1943) was a distinguished American painter whose work is... 

  • Jean-François Millet

    Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a French artist and one of the founders... 

  • Harriet Stewart Miner

    Harriet Miner (1840-1895) was born in 1840 and attended Oberlin College in... 

  • William Frederick Mitchell

    William Frederick Mitchell (1845-1914) was a British artist commissioned to paint many... 

  • Paula Modersohn-Becker

    Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was a pioneering German painter whose work bridged the... 

  • Amedeo Modigliani

    Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (1884-1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the... 

  • László Moholy-Nagy

    László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a Hungarian-born artist, designer, and influential educator, celebrated... 

  • Louise Moillon

    Louise Moillon (c.1610-1696) stands as one of the most distinguished still-life painters... 

  • Carl Moll

    Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (1861-1945) was an Austrian Art Nouveau painter active... 

  • Piet Mondrian

    Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (1872-1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian, was a... 

  • Edward Mondy

    Edward Mondy (1825-1883) was a British artist born in Bristol. He was... 

  • Claude Monet

    Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a pioneering French painter and one of the... 

  • Bernard Boutet de Monvel fashion illustration

    Bernard Boutet de Monvel (1881-1949) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion... 

  • Fannie Moody

    Fannie Moody (1861-1948) was a British artist and the daughter of the... 

  • Henry G. Moon

    Henry George Moon (1857-1905) was an English landscape and botanical painter, noted for... 

  • Albert Moore

    Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893) was an English painter, known for his depictions... 

  • Eleanor Allen Moore

    Eleanor Allen Moore (1885-1955) was a British painter who was born in... 

  • Antonis Mor

    Antonis Mor, also known as Antonio Moro (1516-1576), was a master portraitist... 

  • E. Percy Moran

    Edward Percy Moran (1862-1935), sometimes known as Percy Moran, was an American... 

  • Thomas Moran

    Thomas Moran (1837-1926) was an influential Anglo-American painter and printmaker, renowned for... 

  • Gustave Moreau

    Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was a seminal figure in the Symbolist movement of... 

  • Jean-Michel Moreau

    Jean-Michel Moreau (1741-1814), often distinguished as Moreau le Jeune, was a prominent French... 

  • John Morgan

    John Morgan (1822-1885) was a very successful genre artist who was born... 

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