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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  • Gustave Caillebotte

    Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) was a French painter who was a member and... 

  • Randolph Caldecott

    Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester.... 

  • Philip Calderon

    Philip Hermogenes Calderon RA (1833-1898) was a British painter of Spanish-French ancestry,... 

  • John Callow

    John Callow (1822-1878) was an English artist. Callow was born in 1822.... 

  • William Callow

    William Callow (1812-1908) was an English landscape painter, engraver and water colourist.... 

  • Adolphe-Félix Cals

    Adolphe-Félix Cals (1810-1880) was a French portrait, genre, and landscape painter. Cals... 

  • Mary Cameron

    Mary Margaret Cameron (1865-1921) was a Scottish artist, known for her depictions... 

  • James Campbell

    James Campbell (1828-1893) was an English artist, part of a group from... 

  • Canaletto (1697-1768)

    Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter... 

  • Ella Du Cane

    Ella Mary Du Cane (1874-1943) was the third and youngest daughter of... 

  • Josef Capek

    Josef Čapek (1887-1945) was a Czech artist who was best known as... 

  • Leonetto Cappiello

    Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942) was an Italian and French poster art designer and... 

  • Caravaggio

    Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian... 

  • Emil Cardinaux

    Emil Cardinaux (1877-1936) was a Swiss painter and poster artist. He became... 

  • Arthur Beecher Carles

    Arthur Beecher Carles (1882-1952) was an American modernist painter who was born... 

  • Joan Carlile

    Joan Carlile or Carlell or Carliell (c.1606-1679) was an English portrait painter. She... 

  • Vittore Carpaccio

    Vittore Carpaccio (c.1465-1525/26) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, whose... 

  • Margaret Carpenter

    Margaret Sarah Carpenter, née Geddes (1793-1872) was an English painter. Noted in... 

  • William Carqueville, Lippincott's cover

    William L. Carqueville (1871-1946) trained as a lithographer in his father's firm.... 

  • Annibale Carracci

    Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) stands as one of the pivotal figures in the... 

  • Rosalba Carriera

    Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757) was a pioneering Venetian artist whose exquisite pastel portraits... 

  • Dora Carrington

    Dora de Houghton Carrington (1893-1932), known generally as Carrington, was an English... 

  • Leon Carre

    Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré (1878-1942) was a French Orientalist painter and illustrator,... 

  • Carl Carus

    Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) was a German physiologist and painter, born in... 

  • Ramon Casas i Carbo

    Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) was a prominent Catalan painter, draughtsman, and... 

  • Nelia Casella

    Ella and Nelia Casella (1858-1946 and 1859-1950) were British artists, sculptors, and... 

  • Johann Georg van Caspel

    Johann Georg van Caspel (1870-1928) was a Dutch painter of portraits and... 

  • Mary Cassatt by Edgar Degas

    Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was an American painter and printmaker who played a... 

  • Pol Cassel

    Pol Cassel, originally Paul Ernst Karl Cassel (1892-1945), was a German painter... 

  • Andrea del Castagno

    Andrea del Castagno (c.1421-1457) was a significant figure in the Italian Renaissance,... 

  • Franz Ludwig Catel

    Franz Ludwig Catel (1778-1856) was a German painter. He spent most of... 

  • Catharina van Hemessen

    Catharina van Hemessen (1528-after 1565) was a pioneering Flemish Renaissance painter, renowned... 

  • George Catlin

    George Catlin (1796-1872) was a pioneering American artist, traveller, and ethnographer whose... 

  • Giacomo Ceruti

    Giacomo Ceruti (1698-1767), also known as “Il Pitocchetto,” was an Italian painter... 

  • Francisco Manuel Oller y Cestero

    Francisco Manuel Oller y Cestero (1833-1917) was a distinguished Puerto Rican painter... 

  • Auguste Chabaud

    Auguste Chabaud (1882-1955) was a French painter and sculptor. Chabaud was born... 

  • Henry Chalon

    Henry Bernard Chalon (1770-1849) was an English painter and lithographer. Son of... 

  • John James Chalon

    John James Chalon RA (1778-1854) was a Swiss painter active in England.... 

  • Thomas Chambers

    Thomas Chambers (1808-1869) was an English-born painter who spent most of his... 

  • Winthrop Chandler

    Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790) was an American artist known for his portraits, mainly... 

  • John Gadsby Chapman

    John Gadsby Chapman (1808-1889) was an American artist famous for Baptism of... 

  • Jean Siméon Chardin

    Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered... 

  • William Merritt Chase

    William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) was born in Williamsburg (now Nineveh), Indiana, to... 

  • Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

    Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) was a French painter known for his... 

  • Leo Cheney

    Leo Cheney (1878-1928) was born in Accrington in 1878, where he attended... 

  • Lilian Cheviot

    Lilian Cheviot (1876-1936) was an English painter who specialised in painting dogs,... 

  • Milly Childers

    Emily "Milly" Maria Eardley Childers (1866-1922) was an English painter of the... 

  • George Chinnery

    George Chinnery (1774-1852) was an English painter who spent most of his... 

  • Jules Cheret

    Jules Chéret (1836-1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a... 

  • Paul Cézanne

    Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is often hailed as one of the most influential... 

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