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Some of my favourite artists. Still updating this page with more images.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Kullervo Cursing by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1899

Alfred Joseph Casson

Painting of lake, island, trees, and mountain, by Canadian group of seven artist A. J. Casson.
Summer Morning by A. J. Casson

“Summer morning” might be the wrong title for the above painting, and I’m not sure when it was painted (but Casson lived between 1898-1992). Lots of paintings by Casson online, but the tiles of the same paintings vary between sources.


Alphonse Mucha

Mucha's "The Celebration of Svantovít" from the Slav Epic. The lover parts depict people celebrating a harvest festival, their pagan gods are floating above them in the sky - and in the upper left their Norse enemies, led by a pack of wolves, are coming in to attack the gods.
The Slav Epic cycle No.2: The Celebration of Svantovít by Alphonse Mucha,1912.


Anders Zorn

Oil painting "Midnight" by Anderz Zorn. A woman steering her boat towards the shore during a bright Nordic summer night.
Midnatt / Midnight by Anders Zorn, 1891.


Arthur Rackham

The Mock Turtle drew a long breath and said, ‘That’s very curious’, ca. 1907. This is one of Rackham’s illustrations for Lewis Caroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.


Brian Froud

Blue toned painting by Brian Froud showing many different fairies making grimaces (the unseelie court). A female fairy in the center i larger than the others, and hiding parts of her face behind a long nailed hand.
Queen of the Bad Fairies by Brian Froud. From the book Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, 1998.


Charles Bargue

Detailed litograph by Charles Bargue of a young woman lying in bed and reading a book.
Un Roman du Jour / The last New Novel by Charles Baruge, 1851.

Charles Bargue is mainly known for the Charles Bargue Drawing Course, which is still frequently used for training academic art students. I also studied Charles Bargue, as for example seen here and here.


Edvard Munch

Det Syke Barn / The Sick Child by Edvard Munch, 1927.


Egon Schiele

Painting by Egon Schiele of himself in a suit, holding the head of his girlfriend (at the time) Wally (Walburga) who is in a red dress and cluthcing his waist.
Lovers (Self Portrait with Wally) / Liebespaar (Selbstdarstellung mit Wally) by Egon Schiele, 1914.


Erik Werenskiold

Ink illustration in black and white by Erik Werenskiold showing a troll and princess laughing together. The princess is holding a pair of scissors.
Så lo de så inderlig godt begge to / Then they both laughed heartily illustration by Erik Werenskiold, 1886, for the fairy tale Følgesvennen / The Companion.


Eyvind Earle

Landscape painting by Eyvind Earle. Intricate silhouettes of trees, snow in the foreground, red buildings with snow on the roof, and a blue sky.
Winter Scene by Eyvind Earle , ca. 1982.


Gerhard Munthe

Charcoal, watercolor and gouache painting on paper by Gerhard Munthe. Three girls in nightgowns, and the wind in their blonde hair, is sitting up in their red beds as three polar bears moves towards them through a curtain, and behind the curtain is a dark blue sky with stars. Behind the girls is a background showing the sea with red ships, or creatures. Pattern reminiscent of pinecones is at the top and bottom of the painting.
Friere / The Suitors (also known as Nordlysdøtre / Daughters of the Northern Light) by Gerhard Munthe, 1892.


Gustaf Tenggren

Painting of a boy, or young man, sitting on a tree branch above two quarreling monsters (giants, ogres, or trolls). Around them are mushrooms, more trees, and there is a feint castle in the background. Illustration for Grimms Märchenschatz.
Illustration for Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Gustaf Tenggren, ca. 1920. (The story illustrated is probably The Brave Little Tailor)


Gustav Vigeland

Photos of the sculptures "Øgle knuser naken mann" ("Lizard crushes naked man") and "Kvinne og øgle" ("Woman and lizard") by Gustav Vigeland.
Øgle knuser naken mann (1929-1930) | Kvinne og øgle (1918) by Gustav Vigeland, 1918. Photos from the collection of Vigeland Museet.


Gustav Klimt

Painting with multiple figures. The largest figure is the giant Typhoeus, with the upper body of a monstrous gorilla with brown fur, blue wings, and the body of a snake. To the left of Typhoeus are his three daughters, the Gorgons, seen as nude women with golden snakes in their black hair. Above the Gorgons is an old woman surrounded by mask-like faces representing sickness, madness, and death. To the right of Typhoeus are more naked women symbolizing Lasciviousness, Wantonness and Intemperance. On the far left is another old woman, representing gnawing Grief.
The Beethoven Frieze: Feindliche Gewalten / Hostile Forces (middle wall) by
Gustav Klimt, 1902.


Gustave Doré

Oil painting of a wounded, female, angel lying defeated on the ground with a broken sword and a standard (war flag). She is surrounded by dead soldiers, and a huge, black, eagle is coming towards her. The woman symbolizes France, and the eagle symbolizes Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War.
L’aigle noir de prusse / The Black Eagle of Prussia by Gustave Doré, 1871.


Hans Holbein the Younger

Classical painting of a tired, maybe sad, middle-aged woman (Elsbeth Binzenstock) with two children. One child is her daughter, Katharina, in a brown dress, and also looking tired or sad to the side. The second child is her son Philip, who is looking longingly, or questioningly, up at his mother. This is the family of Hans Holbein the Younger.
Portrait of the Artist ’s Wife with the Two Oldest Children / Bildnis der Frau des Künstlers mit den beiden ältesten Kindern by Hans Holbein, ca. 1528/29.

Link to my study of Charles Bargue’s study of a Hans Holbein portrait.

Helene Schjerfbeck

Portrait of Matti Kiianlinna by Helene Schjerfbeck, 1926.


Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec


Herbert James Draper


Hieronymus Bosch

Link to my blog post with a closer look at paintings by Hieronymus Bosch


Håkon Gullvåg


Ilya Repin


Ivan Bilibin


James Jean


Jamie Hewlett


Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres


Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (Mœbius)


John Bauer


John Singer Sargent


John William Waterhouse


Kawanabe Kyōsai

Frolicking animals / 鳥獣戯画 猫又と狸 下絵 by Kawanabe Kyōsai / 河鍋 暁斎, 19th century (precise year of execution unknown).


Kay Nielsen

Kay Nielsen’s illustration for The Lassie and Her Godmother (Jomfru Maria som gudmor) from East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North, 1914.

Kjell Aukrust

Lars Hertervig

Gamle furutrær / Old Pine Trees by Lars Hertervig, 1865.

Leonora Carrington

How Doth the Little Crocodile


Leonardo da Vinci


Louis Moe

Luis Ricardo Falero


Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio


Odd Nerdrum


Paul Gauguin


Pieter Bruegel the Elder


Theodor Kittelsen

Tove Jansson

Viktor Vasnetsov


William-Adolphe Bouguereau


William Blake