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Birthdays and deaths of the artists on this site, for every day of the year. Dates come from Wikidata, in the Gregorian calendar; only dates Wikidata records to the day are listed.
1 January
- 1617: Hendrik Goltzius died in Haarlem
- 1793: Francesco Guardi died in Cannaregio
- 1798: Utagawa Kuniyoshi born in Nihonbashi
- 1920: Francisco Domingo Marqués died in Madrid
2 January
- 1762: Jean-Baptiste Wicar born in Lille
- 1765: Richard Westall born in Norwich
- 1783: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg born in Blåkrog
- 1952: Louis Valtat died in Paris
3 January
- 1591: Valentin de Boulogne born in Coulommiers
- 1699: Mattia Preti died in Valletta
- 1705: Luca Giordano died in Naples
- 1851: Thomas Birch died in Philadelphia
- 1887: August Macke born in Meschede
- 1919: Frank Duveneck died in Cincinnati
4 January
- 1845: Louis-Léopold Boilly died in Paris
- 1877: Marsden Hartley born in Lewiston
- 1942: Kamisaka Sekka died in Kyoto
- 1943: Martin Monnickendam died in Amsterdam
5 January
- 1767: Anne-Louis Girodet born in Montargis
- 1789: Jules Robert Auguste born in Paris
- 1864: Valdemar Schønheyder Møller born in Aarhus
6 January
- 1541: Bernard van Orley died in Brussels
- 1670: Crispijn van de Passe the Younger died in Amsterdam
- 1735: George Romney born in Dalton-in-Furness
- 1833: Gustave Doré born in Strasbourg
- 1882: Aleksandra Ekster born in Białystok
- 1952: Carl Kylberg died in Hedvig Eleonora and Oscar Parish
- 1953: Urushibara Mokuchu died in Japan
7 January
- 1830: Albert Bierstadt born in Solingen
- 1830: Thomas Lawrence died in London
- 1933: Gad Frederik Clement died in Copenhagen
8 January
- 1590: Simon Vouet born in Paris
- 1897: Walter Gramatté born in Berlin
- 1925: George Bellows died in New York City
- 1938: Christian Rohlfs died in Hagen
9 January
- 1869: Paul Huet died in Paris
- 1949: Othon Friesz died in Paris
10 January
- 1478: Jean Fouquet died in Tours
- 1614: Kanō Yasunobu born in Kyoto
- 1854: Henry-Julien Detouche born in Paris
- 1881: Horace Christopher Taylor born in London
- 1888: Jacques Amans died in 7th arrondissement of Paris
- 1904: Jean-Léon Gérôme died in 9th arrondissement of Paris
11 January
- 1943: Lilian May Miller died in San Francisco
12 January
- 1591: Jusepe de Ribera born in Xàtiva
- 1763: Georges Michel born in Paris
- 1800: Eugène Lami born in Paris
- 1841: Edward Lamson Henry born in Charleston
- 1856: John Singer Sargent born in Florence
- 1865: Utagawa Kunisada died in Edo
- 1938: Oscar Florianus Bluemner died in Braintree
- 1954: Ellen Thesleff died in Helsinki
13 January
- 1596: Jan van Goyen born in Leiden
- 1625: Jan Brueghel the Elder died in Antwerp
- 1848: Lilla Cabot Perry born in Boston
- 1882: Louis-Rémy Robert died in Sèvres
- 1893: Chaïm Soutine born in Śmiłavičy
14 January
- 1822: Franz Innocenz Josef Kobell died in Munich
- 1841: Berthe Morisot born in Bourges
- 1858: Eugenio Lucas Villaamil born in Madrid
- 1867: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres died in Paris
15 January
- 1684: Caspar Netscher died in The Hague
- 1793: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller born in Vienna
- 1825: Heinrich Reinhold died in Rome
- 1927: Harald Giersing died in Copenhagen
- 1929: George Cope died in West Chester
16 January
- 1337: Giotto died in Florence
- 1824: Seymour Joseph Guy born in London
- 1842: Thomas Fearnley died in Munich
- 1880: Charles Nègre died in Grasse
- 1901: Arnold Böcklin died in Fiesole
17 January
- 1654: Paulus Potter died in Amsterdam
- 1800: Hippolyte Bellangé born in former 6th arrondissement of Paris
- 1882: Timothy H. O'Sullivan died in New Brighton
18 January
- 1670: Andrea Vaccaro died in Naples
- 1852: Joan Roig Soler born in Barcelona
- 1930: George Gardner Symons died in Hillside
19 January
- 1819: William Powell Frith born in Aldfield
- 1832: Samuel De Wilde died in London
- 1839: Paul Cézanne born in Aix-en-Provence
- 1866: Louis Dalrymple born in Cambridge
- 1871: Henri Regnault died in Buzenval
20 January
- 1494: Domenico Ghirlandaio died in Florence
- 1797: Gainsborough Dupont died in London
- 1869: William Sergeant Kendall born in Spuyten Duyvil
- 1875: Jean-François Millet died in Barbizon
- 1882: John Linnell died in Redhill
- 1900: John Ruskin died in Coniston
21 January
- 1672: Adriaen van de Velde died in Amsterdam
- 1873: William Matthew Prior died in East Boston
22 January
- 1649: Alessandro Turchi died in Rome
- 1689: Nicolas Lancret born in Paris
- 1845: Luigi Loir born in Gorizia
- 1919: Carl Larsson died in Sundborns
23 January
- 1760: Giovanni Antonio Guardi died in Venice
- 1832: Édouard Manet born in former 10th arrondissement of Paris
- 1881: Oliver Newberry Chaffee born in Detroit
- 1883: Gustave Doré died in 7th arrondissement of Paris
- 1918: Eugenio Lucas Villaamil died in Madrid
- 1944: Edvard Munch died in Ekely
- 1947: Pierre Bonnard died in Le Cannet
24 January
- 1920: Amedeo Modigliani died in Hôpital de la Charité
25 January
- 1498: Francesco Botticini died in Florence
- 1632: Abraham Janssens I died in Antwerp
26 January
- 1747: Willem van Mieris died in Leiden
- 1779: Thomas Hudson died in Twickenham
- 1801: John Quidor born in Tappan
- 1805: Samuel Palmer born in Newington
- 1824: Théodore Géricault died in Paris
- 1861: Louis Anquetin born in Étrépagny
- 1878: Karl Isakson born in Kungsholm parish
- 1879: Julia Margaret Cameron died in Kalutara
27 January
- 1812: Bernardino Nocchi died in Rome
- 1824: Jozef Israëls born in Groningen
28 January
- 1739: Pietro Labruzzi born in Rome
29 January
- 1571: Paris Bordone died in Venice
- 1678: Giulio Carpioni died in Vicenza
- 1835: Benjamin Marshall died in Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
- 1858: Henry Ward Ranger born in Syracuse
- 1888: Edward Lear died in Sanremo
- 1899: Alfred Sisley died in cemetery of Moret-sur-Loing
- 1923: Elihu Vedder died in Rome
- 1940: Anton Kurvers died in Amsterdam
30 January
- 1652: Georges de La Tour died in Lunéville
- 1721: Bernardo Bellotto born in Venice
- 1781: Soga Shōhaku died in Kyōto
- 1815: Joseph Whiting Stock born in Springfield
- 1892: Pierre Andrieu died in Paris
31 January
- 1891: Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier died in Paris
1 February
- 1634: Jacob Ochtervelt born in Rotterdam
- 1801: Thomas Cole born in Bolton
- 1838: Joseph Keppler born in Vienna
- 1861: Jacques-Émile Blanche born in 16th arrondissement of Paris
- 1873: George Cruikshank died in London
- 1924: Maurice Prendergast died in New York City
- 1944: Piet Mondrian died in New York City
2 February
- 1616: Sébastien Bourdon born in Montpellier
- 1852: José Guadalupe Posada born in Aguascalientes City
- 1863: Alexandre Lunois born in Paris
- 1897: Homer Dodge Martin died in Saint Paul
- 1899: Halfdan Egedius died in Christiania
- 1920: Pál Szinyei Merse died in Jarovnice
3 February
- 1679: Jan Steen died in Leiden
- 1937: Monroe Tsatoke died
- 1938: Niels Skovgaard died in Kongens Lyngby
4 February
- 1483: Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio born in Florence
- 1667: Alessandro Magnasco born in Genoa
- 1855: George Cope born in West Chester
5 February
- 1578: Giovanni Battista Moroni died in Bergamo
- 1788: Sarah Goodridge born in Templeton
- 1872: William Nicholson born in Newark-on-Trent
- 1888: Utagawa Yoshiharu died
- 1891: Utagawa Kunihisa II died
6 February
- 1918: Gustav Klimt died in Vienna
- 1938: Marianne von Werefkin died in Ascona
- 1952: Axel Bentzen died in Copenhagen
7 February
- 1724: Hanabusa Itchō died
- 1856: Yamamoto Baiitsu died in Nagoya
- 1934: Horace Christopher Taylor died
8 February
- 1591: Guercino born in Cento
- 1703: Corrado Giaquinto born in Molfetta
- 1793: Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros born in Ivry-sur-Seine
- 1819: John Ruskin born in London
- 1876: Paula Modersohn-Becker born in Dresden
- 1880: Franz Marc born in Kreuzstraße
- 1909: Joan Roig Soler died in Barcelona
- 1925: Edward Penfield died in Beacon
9 February
- 1612: Pier Francesco Mola born in Coldrerio
- 1770: Eunice Pinney born in Simsbury
- 1780: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin died in Paris
- 1877: Ohara Koson born in Kanazawa
- 1891: Johan Jongkind died in La Côte-Saint-André
- 1916: Luigi Loir died in 9th arrondissement of Paris
- 1929: Walter Gramatté died in Hamburg
10 February
- 1765: Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays died in Paris
- 1879: Honoré Daumier died in Valmondois
11 February
- 1755: Nicolas-Antoine Taunay born in Paris
- 1800: William Henry Fox Talbot born in Melbury Sampford
- 1848: Thomas Cole died in Catskill
- 1876: Harold Gilman born in Rode
- 1924: Jean-François Raffaëlli died in Paris
12 February
- 1538: Albrecht Altdorfer died in Regensburg
- 1690: Charles Le Brun died in Paris
- 1837: Thomas Moran born in Bolton
- 1842: Francisco Domingo Marqués born in Valencia
- 1919: Harold Gilman died in London
13 February
- 1592: Jacopo Bassano died in Bassano del Grappa
- 1683: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta born in Venice
- 1805: Pietro Labruzzi died in Rome
- 1861: Charles Courtney Curran born in Hartford
- 1863: Alvan Fisher died in Dedham
- 1916: Vilhelm Hammershøi died in Copenhagen
14 February
- 1913: Kawabata Gyokushō died in Sugamo
15 February
- 1751: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein born in Haina
- 1817: Charles-François Daubigny born in Paris
- 1834: Paul Guigou born in Villars
- 1926: Friedrich Fennel died in Kassel
- 1939: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin died in Saint Petersburg
16 February
- 1819: Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes died in former 11th arrondissement of Paris
- 1823: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon died in Paris
- 1841: Armand Guillaumin born in Paris
- 1861: Samuel Lovett Waldo died in New York City
- 1878: Pamela Colman Smith born in Pimlico
- 1936: Marius Hammann died in Copenhagen
- 1938: William Sergeant Kendall died in Hot Springs
17 February
- 1774: Raphaelle Peale born in Annapolis
- 1913: George Henry Hall died in New York City
- 1917: Noguchi Shōhin died
- 1932: Evert Pieters died in Laren
- 1940: Julius Paulsen died in Copenhagen
- 1950: Margaret Jordan Patterson died in Brattleboro
18 February
- 1683: Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem died in Amsterdam
- 1775: Thomas Girtin born in London
- 1823: Jasper Francis Cropsey born in Staten Island
- 1860: Anders Zorn born in Mora Parish
- 1902: Albert Bierstadt died in New York City
- 1902: Marcellin Desboutin died in Nice
19 February
- 1751: Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller born in Stockholm
- 1878: Charles-François Daubigny died in Paris
- 1894: Joseph Keppler died in New York City
- 1922: Karl Isakson died in Copenhagen
20 February
- 1795: Ary Scheffer born in Dordrecht
- 1816: William Rimmer born in Liverpool
21 February
- 1815: Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier born in Lyon
- 1865: Constant Troyon died in 9th arrondissement of Paris
- 1894: Gustave Caillebotte died in Gennevilliers
22 February
- 1672: Karel van der Pluym died in Leiden
- 1778: Rembrandt Peale born in Pennsylvania
- 1778: Franz Ludwig Catel born in Berlin
- 1806: Antoine Wiertz born in Dinant
- 1827: Charles Willson Peale died in Philadelphia
- 1855: Mortimer Menpes born in Port Adelaide
- 1890: Carl Bloch died in Copenhagen
23 February
- 1817: George Frederic Watts born in London
- 1836: Ezra Ames died in Albany
- 1878: Boris Kustodiev born in Astrakhan
- 1879: Kazimir Malevich born in Kyiv
24 February
- 1568: Giuseppe Cesari born in Arpino
- 1613: Mattia Preti born in Taverna
- 1619: Charles Le Brun born in Paris
- 1825: Utagawa Toyokuni I died in Edo
- 1836: Winslow Homer born in Boston
25 February
- 1841: Pierre-Auguste Renoir born in Limoges
- 1847: Noguchi Shōhin born in Osaka
- 1874: Martin Monnickendam born in Amsterdam
- 1927: Kōgyo Tsukioka died
26 February
- 1802: Victor Hugo born in Besançon
- 1808: Honoré Daumier born in Marseille
- 1811: James Sharples died in New York City
- 1821: Félix Ziem born in Beaune
- 1829: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein died in Eutin
- 1852: Piet Verhaert born in Antwerp
- 1866: Kamisaka Sekka born in Kyoto
27 February
- 1606: Laurent de La Hyre born in Paris
- 1834: Jean-Baptiste Wicar died in Rome
- 1863: Joaquín Sorolla born in Valencia
- 1884: Max Beckmann born in Leipzig
28 February
- 1564: Michelangelo died in Rome
- 1875: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot died in rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière
- 1884: Charles Martin born in Montpellier
1 March
- 1848: Augustus Saint-Gaudens born in Dublin
- 1883: Edgar Alwin Payne born in Barry County
2 March
- 1797: Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin born in Bourges
- 1895: Berthe Morisot died in Paris
- 1949: William Nicholson died in Blewbury
3 March
- 1724: Franz Xavier Karl Palko born in Wrocław
- 1780: Joseph Highmore died in Canterbury
- 1803: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps born in Paris
- 1804: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo died in Venice
- 1808: Eugène Blery born in Fontainebleau
- 1867: Guy Rose born in San Gabriel
- 1920: Theodor Philipsen died in Copenhagen
4 March
- 1756: Henry Raeburn born in Stockbridge
- 1832: Samuel Colman born in Portland
- 1909: Alexandre Charpentier died in Neuilly-sur-Seine
- 1916: Franz Marc died in Braquis
5 March
- 1660: Felice Ficherelli died in Florence
- 1696: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo born in Venice
- 1825: Raphaelle Peale died in Philadelphia
- 1860: Alfred de Dreux died in Paris
- 1929: Francesco Paolo Michetti died in Francavilla al Mare
6 March
- 1638: Paulus Moreelse died in Utrecht
- 1805: Alexandre Desgoffe born in Paris
- 1866: Toshikata Mizuno born in Higashikonyachō
- 1881: María Blanchard born in Santander
- 1923: Charles Ethan Porter died in Rockville
7 March
- 1802: Edwin Landseer born in London
- 1872: Piet Mondrian born in Amersfoort
- 1931: Akseli Gallen-Kallela died in Stockholm
- 1955: Alphonse Quizet died in Paris
8 March
- 1806: Antonio María Esquivel born in Seville
- 1902: Paul Flandrin died in 6th arrondissement of Paris
9 March
- 1750: Johann Friedrich August Tischbein born in Maastricht
- 1925: Willard Metcalf died in New York City
- 1933: Joakim Skovgaard died in Copenhagen
10 March
- 1494: Francesco Bacchiacca born in Florence
- 1648: Antonio de Puga died in Madrid
11 March
- 1756: Bernard d'Agesci born in Niort
- 1820: Benjamin West died in London
12 March
- 1728: Anton Raphael Mengs born in Ústí nad Labem
- 1749: Alessandro Magnasco died in Genoa
- 1889: Urushibara Mokuchu born in Tokyo
- 1913: Henry-Julien Detouche died in 9th arrondissement of Paris
13 March
- 1593: Georges de La Tour born in Vic-sur-Seille
- 1870: William James Glackens born in Philadelphia
- 1885: Alphonse Quizet born in Paris
14 March
- 1853: Ferdinand Hodler born in Bern
15 March
- 1475: Michelangelo born in Caprese Michelangelo
- 1534: Antonio da Correggio died
- 1673: Salvator Rosa died in Rome
- 1829: Jean-Jacques Henner born in Bernwiller
- 1941: Alexej von Jawlensky died in Wiesbaden
16 March
- 1639: Pieter de Neyn died in Leiden
- 1665: Giuseppe Maria Crespi born in Bologna
- 1822: Rosa Bonheur born in Bordeaux
- 1913: Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel died in 7th arrondissement of Paris
17 March
- 1578: Francesco Albani born in Bologna
- 1686: Jean-Baptiste Oudry born in Paris
- 1919: Kenyon Cox died in New York City
- 1949: Aleksandra Ekster died in Fontenay-aux-Roses
18 March
- 1850: Hugo Charlemont born in Jemnice
19 March
- 1847: Albert Pinkham Ryder born in New Bedford
- 1864: Alexandre Calame died in Menton
- 1868: Sheldon Peck died in Lombard
- 1908: Emilie Mediz-Pelikan died in Leubnitz-Neuostra
20 March
- 1746: Nicolas de Largillière died in Paris
- 1767: Jean-Victor Bertin born in Paris
- 1811: George Caleb Bingham born in Augusta County
- 1830: Nicolas-Antoine Taunay died in Paris
21 March
- 1805: Jean-Baptiste Greuze died in Paris
- 1910: Nadar died in avenue Franklin-D.-Roosevelt
- 1949: Jan Mirosław Peszke died in Le Mans
22 March
- 1599: Anthony van Dyck born in Antwerp
- 1816: John Frederick Kensett born in Cheshire
- 1873: Ernest Lawson born in Halifax
23 March
- 1651: Jean-Baptiste Santerre born in Magny-en-Vexin
- 1810: Alfred de Dreux born in Paris
- 1847: Théodore Roussel born in Lorient
- 1860: Armand Point born in Algiers
- 1874: Henri Manguin born in Paris
- 1943: Joseph Schillinger died in New York City
24 March
- 1635: Jacques Callot died in Nancy
- 1683: Mark Catesby born in Essex
- 1684: Pieter de Hooch died in Amsterdam
- 1688: John Smibert born in Edinburgh
- 1870: Johann Georg van Caspel born in Amsterdam
- 1897: Henri Guérard died in 9th arrondissement of Paris
25 March
- 1592: Jacques Callot born in Nancy
- 1747: Giuseppe Maria Crespi died in Bologna
- 1881: Patrick Henry Bruce born in Campbell County
- 1953: Raoul Dufy died in Forcalquier
26 March
- 1864: Alexej von Jawlensky born in Torzhok
- 1920: Samuel Colman died in New York City
27 March
- 1770: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo died in Madrid
- 1859: N.P. Mols born in Grumstrup
- 1866: Chester Harding died in Boston
- 1875: Albert Marquet born in Bordeaux
- 1918: Henry Golden Dearth died in New York City
28 March
- 1559: Wen Zhengming died in Suzhou
- 1578: Adam Elsheimer born in Frankfurt
- 1819: Roger Fenton born in Crimble Hall, Heywood
- 1847: De Scott Evans born in Boston
- 1917: Albert Pinkham Ryder died in New York City
29 March
- 1629: Jacob de Gheyn II died in The Hague
- 1745: John Russell born in Guildford
- 1879: Thomas Couture died in Villiers-le-Bel
- 1891: Georges Seurat died in boulevard de Magenta
30 March
- 1746: Francisco Goya born in Fuendetodos
- 1819: Vilhelm Kyhn born in Copenhagen
- 1853: Vincent van Gogh born in Zundert
- 1868: Koloman Moser born in Vienna
- 1882: Henri Lehmann died in 8th arrondissement of Paris
31 March
- 1824: William Morris Hunt born in Brattleboro
- 1835: John La Farge born in New York City
- 1837: John Constable died in Charlotte Street
- 1843: Kristian Zahrtmann born in Rønne
1 April
- 1618: Jan Philip van Thielen born in Mechelen
- 1802: Joseph-Siffred Duplessis died in Versailles
- 1821: Geskel Saloman born in Tønder
- 1876: Jacoba van Heemskerck born in The Hague
- 1938: Mortimer Menpes died in Pangbourne
2 April
- 1648: Cornelis Huysmans born in Antwerp
- 1751: John Smibert died in Boston
- 1827: William Holman Hunt born in London
- 1846: Rudolf Bissen born in Copenhagen
- 1896: Theodore Robinson died in New York City
3 April
- 1747: Francesco Solimena died in Naples
- 1875: Frederick R. Spencer died in Wampsville
- 1955: Karl Hofer died in Berlin
4 April
- 1758: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon born in Cluny
5 April
- 1626: Jan van Kessel the Elder born in Antwerp
- 1732: Jean-Honoré Fragonard born in Grasse
- 1811: Jules Dupré born in Nantes
- 1866: Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig born in Amsterdam
- 1906: Eastman Johnson died in New York City
- 1932: María Blanchard died in Paris
6 April
- 1472: Fra Bartolomeo born in Prato
- 1783: Samuel Lovett Waldo born in Windham
- 1820: Nadar born in rue Saint-Honoré
- 1826: Gustave Moreau born in Paris
- 1837: Eugène Cuvelier born in Arras
- 1857: Arthur Wesley Dow born in Ipswich
7 April
- 1614: El Greco died in Toledo
- 1874: Frederick Carl Frieseke born in Owosso
- 1882: Aristarkh Lentulov born in Novaya Pyatina
- 1900: Frederic Edwin Church died in New York City
8 April
- 1871: Clarence Hudson White born in West Carlisle
- 1947: Edgar Alwin Payne died in Glendale
9 April
- 1656: Francesco Trevisani born in Koper
- 1778: John Hesselius died in Anne Arundel County
- 1857: Antonio María Esquivel died in Madrid
- 1882: Dante Gabriel Rossetti died in Birchington
- 1943: Edvard Weie died in Frederiksberg
10 April
- 1546: Bartholomeus Spranger born in Antwerp
- 1866: Hippolyte Bellangé died in Paris
- 1884: Bernd Steiner born in Mistelbach
- 1891: John Adams Whipple died in Cambridge
- 1975: Walker Evans died in New Haven
11 April
- 1736: Nicolas Bertin died in Paris
12 April
- 1885: Robert Delaunay born in Paris
13 April
- 1860: James Ensor born in Ostend
- 1908: Martín Rico died in Venice
- 1911: William Keith died in Berkeley
14 April
- 1625: Heinrich Jansen born in Flensburg
- 1724: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin born in Paris
- 1814: Henri Lehmann born in Kiel
- 1861: Utagawa Kuniyoshi died in Gen'yadana
15 April
- 1483: Raphael born in Urbino
- 1808: Hubert Robert died in Paris
- 1812: Théodore Rousseau born in Paris
- 1850: Jules Robert Auguste died in Paris
- 1925: John Singer Sargent died in London
- 1943: Aristarkh Lentulov died in Moscow
16 April
- 1520: Raphael died in Rome
- 1528: Albrecht Dürer died in Nuremberg
- 1828: Francisco Goya died in Bordeaux
- 1940: Charles William Bartlett died in Hawaii
- 1941: Émile Bernard died in Paris
17 April
- 1675: Abraham van Diepenbeeck died in Antwerp
- 1679: Jan van Kessel the Elder died in Antwerp
18 April
- 1766: Corrado Giaquinto died in Naples
- 1842: Kawabata Gyokushō born in Kyōto
- 1869: Kōgyo Tsukioka born in Tokyo
- 1898: Gustave Moreau died in Rennes
- 1939: Hugo Charlemont died in Vienna
- 1940: Aloys Wach died in Braunau am Inn
19 April
- 1588: Paolo Veronese died in Venice
- 1849: Eva Gonzalès born in Paris
20 April
- 1797: Pierre Achille Poirot born in Alençon
- 1805: Albert Schindler born in Andělská Hora
- 1806: John Russell died in Kingston upon Hull
- 1840: Odilon Redon born in Bordeaux
- 1850: Jean-François Raffaëlli born in Paris
21 April
- 1696: Francesco de Mura born in Naples
- 1827: Thomas Rowlandson died in London
22 April
- 1522: Piero di Cosimo died in Florence
- 1864: Henry Golden Dearth born in Bristol
- 1883: Arnold van Roessel born in Tilburg
23 April
- 1775: J. M. W. Turner born in Maiden Lane
- 1926: Théodore Roussel died in Hastings
24 April
- 1788: Ammi Phillips born in Colebrook
- 1803: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard died in Paris
- 1864: Claude-Marie Dubufe died in La Celle-Saint-Cloud
- 1881: Harald Giersing born in Copenhagen
25 April
- 1690: David Teniers the Younger died in Brussels
- 1875: Henry Lyman Saÿen born in Philadelphia
- 1892: William Bradford died in New York City
- 1944: Oliver Newberry Chaffee died in Asheville
26 April
- 1798: Eugène Delacroix born in Saint-Maurice
- 1846: Henri Guérard born in Paris
- 1875: Edmond Bacot died in Caen
27 April
- 1642: Francisque Millet born in Antwerp
- 1656: Jan van Goyen died in The Hague
- 1656: Gerard van Honthorst died in Utrecht
28 April
- 1504: Filippino Lippi died in Florence
- 1868: Émile Bernard born in Lille
- 1918: Henry Lyman Saÿen died in Philadelphia
29 April
- 1754: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta died in Venice
30 April
- 1755: Jean-Baptiste Oudry died in Beauvais
- 1823: William Bradford born in Fairhaven
- 1839: Yoshitoshi born in Edo
- 1842: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun died in Paris
- 1883: Édouard Manet died in 8th arrondissement of Paris
- 1892: Aloys Wach born in Lambach
1 May
- 1555: Ludovico Carracci born in Bologna
- 1651: Kanō Sansetsu died in Kyōto
- 1655: Eustache Le Sueur died in Paris
- 1783: Barbara Regina Dietzsch died in Nuremberg
- 1825: George Inness born in Newburgh
- 1827: Jules Breton born in Courrières
- 1835: Victor Huguet born in Le Lude
- 1855: Cecilia Beaux born in Philadelphia
- 1886: Ville Jais Nielsen born in Randers
- 1900: Mihály Munkácsy died in Endenich
- 1934: Paul Fischer died in Gentofte
2 May
- 1685: Adriaen van Ostade died in Haarlem
- 1924: Ivar Rosenberg died in Frederiksberg
3 May
- 1703: Eglon van der Neer died in Düsseldorf
- 1905: Valdemar Schønheyder Møller died in Aarhus
4 May
- 1769: Thomas Lawrence born in Bristol
- 1826: Frederic Edwin Church born in Hartford
- 1866: Julien Vallou de Villeneuve died in Paris
5 May
- 1581: Frans Francken the Younger born in Antwerp
- 1664: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione died in Mantua
- 1768: Ezra Ames born in Framingham
- 1859: Charles Robert Leslie died in London
- 1877: Halfdan Egedius born in Drammen
- 1883: Eva Gonzalès died in Paris
- 1917: Hans Smidth died in Copenhagen
6 May
- 1629: Otto van Veen died in Brussels
- 1642: Frans Francken the Younger died in Antwerp
- 1880: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner born in Aschaffenburg
- 1889: Lyubov Popova born in Krasnovidovo
- 1904: Franz von Lenbach died in Munich
7 May
- 1840: Caspar David Friedrich died in Dresden
- 1842: Thorvald Niss born in Assens
8 May
- 1604: Andrea Vaccaro born in Naples
- 1671: Sébastien Bourdon died in Paris
- 1741: Bernardino Nocchi born in Lucca
- 1785: Pietro Longhi died in Venice
- 1876: Ludvig Karsten born in Christiania
- 1903: Paul Gauguin died in Atuona
9 May
- 1596: Abraham van Diepenbeeck born
- 1815: David Gilmour Blythe born in East Liverpool
- 1820: Charles Nègre born in Grasse
- 1830: Onésipe Aguado born in Évry
- 1919: Edward Lamson Henry died in Ellenville
10 May
- 1551: Jacopo da Empoli born in Florence
- 1849: Katsushika Hokusai died in Asakusa
- 1866: Léon Bakst born in Hrodna
- 1896: Beatrice Whistler died in Hampstead Heath
11 May
- 1739: Pierre Charles Trémolières died in Paris
- 1751: Ralph Earl born in Shrewsbury
- 1823: Alfred Stevens born in Brussels
- 1824: Jean-Léon Gérôme born in Vesoul
- 1866: Berend Wolter Weyers born in Kampen
- 1903: Vilhelm Kyhn died in Frederiksberg
- 1905: Thorvald Niss died in Frederiksberg
- 1927: Juan Gris died in Boulogne-Billancourt
12 May
- 1812: Edward Lear born in London
- 1828: Dante Gabriel Rossetti born in London
- 1857: Beatrice Whistler born in Chelsea
- 1911: Constant Mayer died in Paris
- 1936: Peter Henry Emerson died in Falmouth
13 May
- 1666: Pier Francesco Mola died in Rome
- 1856: Peter Henry Emerson born in Sagua La Grande
- 1868: Peter Hansen born in Faaborg
- 1919: Helen Hyde died in Pasadena
14 May
- 1528: Bernhard Strigel died in Memmingen
- 1727: Thomas Gainsborough born in Sudbury
- 1860: Bruno Liljefors born in Uppsala
- 1906: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon died in East Sussex
- 1923: Fidelia Bridges died in Canaan
15 May
- 1734: Sebastiano Ricci died in Venice
- 1864: Vilhelm Hammershøi born in Copenhagen
- 1865: David Gilmour Blythe died in Pittsburgh
- 1927: Gerhard Morgenstjerne Munthe died in Leiden
- 1935: Kazimir Malevich died in Saint Petersburg
- 1945: Carel Adolph Lion Cachet died in Vreeland
16 May
- 1806: William Matthew Prior born in Bath
- 1910: Henri-Edmond Cross died in Le Lavandou
17 May
- 1635: Domenico Tintoretto died in Venice
- 1651: Friedrich Brentel died in Strasbourg
- 1803: Martinus Rørbye born in Drammen
- 1861: Maxime Maufra born in Nantes
18 May
- 1949: Berend Wolter Weyers died in The Hague
19 May
- 1593: Jacob Jordaens born in Antwerp
- 1668: Philips Wouwerman died in Haarlem
- 1755: Adriaan de Lelie born in Tilburg
- 1805: Erastus Salisbury Field born in Leverett
- 1834: Fidelia Bridges born in Salem
- 1875: Einar Hein born in Copenhagen
- 1893: Onésipe Aguado died in 8th arrondissement of Paris
- 1908: Georg Emil Libert died in Copenhagen
- 1914: Cesare Augusto Detti died in Paris
- 1918: Ferdinand Hodler died in Geneva
20 May
- 1818: William Rickarby Miller born in Staindrop
- 1856: Henri-Edmond Cross born in Douai
21 May
- 1844: Henri Rousseau born in Laval
- 1854: John F. Peto born in Philadelphia
22 May
- 1733: Hubert Robert born in Paris
- 1844: Mary Cassatt born in Allegheny
- 1876: Julius Klinger born in Dornbach
- 1885: Victor Hugo died in Paris
- 1902: Lilly Martin Spencer died in New York City
- 1938: William James Glackens died in Westport
23 May
- 1834: Carl Bloch born in Copenhagen
- 1918: Maxime Maufra died in Poncé-sur-le-Loir
24 May
- 1619: Philips Wouwerman born in Haarlem
- 1816: Emanuel Leutze born in Schwäbisch Gmünd
- 1831: James Peale died in Philadelphia
- 1873: Jan Willem Sluiter born in Amersfoort
- 1881: Samuel Palmer died in Redhill
- 1937: Henry Ossawa Tanner died in 6th arrondissement of Paris
25 May
- 1675: Gaspard Dughet died in Rome
- 1879: Marius Hammann born in Thisted
- 1899: Rosa Bonheur died in Thomery
- 1924: Lyubov Popova died in Moscow
- 1951: Cyril Power died in London
26 May
- 1602: Philippe de Champaigne born in Brussels
- 1809: John Gregory Crace born in London
- 1902: Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant died in 17th arrondissement of Paris
27 May
- 1699: Giovanni Antonio Guardi born in Vienna
28 May
- 1810: Alexandre Calame born in Vevey
- 1811: Paul Flandrin born in Lyon
- 1840: Hans Makart born in Salzburg
- 1853: Carl Larsson born in Storkyrkoförsamlingen
- 1927: Boris Kustodiev died in Saint Petersburg
29 May
- 1801: Jacques Amans born in Maastricht
- 1921: Abbott Handerson Thayer died in Dublin
30 May
- 1471: Albrecht Dürer born in Nuremberg
- 1640: Peter Paul Rubens died in Antwerp
- 1770: François Boucher died in Paris
- 1776: Ike no Taiga died in Kyoto
31 May
- 1594: Jacopo Tintoretto died in Venice
- 1778: John Jackson born in Lastingham
- 1836: Jules Chéret born in former 11th arrondissement of Paris
- 1915: John White Alexander died in New York City
1 June
- 1664: Michiel Sweerts died in Goa
- 1727: Cornelis Huysmans died in Mechelen
- 1831: John Jackson died in St John's Wood
- 1860: Charles William Bartlett born in Bridport
- 1891: Ivar Rosenberg born in Copenhagen
- 1904: George Frederic Watts died in Compton
2 June
- 1461: Domenico Veneziano died in Florence
- 1716: Ogata Kōrin died in Heian-kyō
- 1849: Paul-Albert Besnard born in 7th arrondissement of Paris
- 1866: Edward Penfield born in Brooklyn
3 June
- 1662: Willem van Mieris born in Leiden
- 1819: Johan Jongkind born in Lattrop
- 1833: William Trost Richards born in Philadelphia
- 1871: Jakob Wilhelm Hüber died in Zurich
- 1877: Raoul Dufy born in Le Havre
4 June
- 1615: Gaspard Dughet born in Rome
- 1681: Cornelis Saftleven died in Rotterdam
- 1737: François Lemoyne died in Paris
- 1925: Hans Michael Therkildsen died in Copenhagen
5 June
- 1813: Édouard Baldus born in Grünebach
6 June
- 1723: Ike no Taiga born in Kyoto
- 1756: John Trumbull born in Lebanon
- 1900: Pearl Gibbo born
7 June
- 1806: Frederick R. Spencer born in Lenox
- 1843: Georges Michel died in Paris
- 1848: Paul Gauguin born in Paris
- 1866: Ichiryūsai Yoshitoyo died in Nihonbashi
- 1887: Eugène Blery died in Paris
- 1900: Christjern Schobius died in Copenhagen
8 June
- 1674: Jan Lievens died in Amsterdam
- 1783: Thomas Sully born in Horncastle
- 1863: Hans Lendorff born in Basel
9 June
- 1574: Giulio Cesare Procaccini born in Bologna
- 1794: Elias V. Coe born
- 1849: Michael Ancher born in Bornholm
- 1892: Yoshitoshi died in Ryōgoku
10 June
- 1535: Alessandro Allori born in Florence
- 1819: Gustave Courbet born in Ornans
- 1840: Theodor Philipsen born in Copenhagen
- 1845: Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant born in Batignolles-Monceau
- 1856: Alexandre Charpentier born in Paris
- 1862: Agnes Slott-Møller born in Nyboder
- 1880: André Derain born in Chatou
- 1892: Josef Geis born in Munich
- 1935: René Crevel died in Paris
11 June
- 1135: Emperor Huizong of Song died in Yilan County
- 1448: Domenico Ghirlandaio born in Florence
- 1776: John Constable born in East Bergholt
- 1815: Julia Margaret Cameron born in Garden Reach
- 1842: Jean-Victor Bertin died in Paris
- 1937: Agnes Slott-Møller died in Løgismose
12 June
- 1733: Alessandro Longhi born in Venice
- 1853: Merry-Joseph Blondel died in former 10th arrondissement of Paris
- 1890: Egon Schiele born in Tulln an der Donau
13 June
- 1692: Joseph Highmore born in London
- 1812: Adolphe Braun born in Besançon
- 1828: Jules-Élie Delaunay born in Nantes
14 June
- 1682: Jacob van Ruisdael died in Haarlem
- 1926: Mary Cassatt died in Le Mesnil-Théribus
- 1947: Albert Marquet died in Paris
15 June
- 1692: Giovanni Domenico Ferretti born in Florence
- 1858: Ary Scheffer died in Argenteuil
- 1938: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner died in Davos Frauenkirch
16 June
- 1561: Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio died in Florence
- 1792: John Linnell born in Bloomsbury
- 1891: Charles Verschuuren born in Tilburg
17 June
- 1691: Giovanni Paolo Panini born in Piacenza
- 1898: Edward Burne-Jones died in London
18 June
- 1865: Antoine Wiertz died
19 June
- 1840: Pierre-Joseph Redouté died in Paris
- 1935: Harald Sohlberg died in Christiania
20 June
- 1917: Carducius Plantagenet Ream died in Chicago
21 June
- 1615: Salvator Rosa born in Naples
- 1812: Johann Friedrich August Tischbein died in Heidelberg
- 1859: Henry Ossawa Tanner born in Pittsburgh
- 1867: Oscar Florianus Bluemner born in Prenzlau
- 1940: Édouard Vuillard died in La Baule-Escoublac
22 June
- 1876: Gwen John born in Haverfordwest
- 1900: Jasper Francis Cropsey died in Hastings-on-Hudson
- 1917: Kristian Zahrtmann died in Frederiksberg
23 June
- 1620: Juan de Zurbarán born in Llerena
- 1852: Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin died in Dijon
- 1916: Carleton Watkins died in Napa
- 1940: Hermann-Paul died in Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
24 June
- 1704: Johann Georg Platzer born in Eppan an der Weinstraße
- 1851: Peder Severin Krøyer born in Stavanger
- 1865: Robert Henri born in Cincinnati
- 1894: George Peter Alexander Healy died in Chicago
- 1943: Frederick H. Evans died in London
25 June
- 1464: Rogier van der Weyden died in Brussels
- 1916: Thomas Eakins died in Philadelphia
26 June
- 1763: George Morland born in London
- 1853: Frederick H. Evans born in London
- 1927: Armand Guillaumin died in Orly
29 June
- 1779: Anton Raphael Mengs died in Rome
- 1886: Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli died in Marseille
- 1940: Paul Klee died in Muralto
- 1955: Max Pechstein died in Berlin
30 June
- 1649: Simon Vouet died in Paris
- 1835: Toyohara Kunichika born in Edo
- 1876: Ernest Haskell born in Woodstock
1 July
- 1547: Sebastiano del Piombo died in Rome
- 1621: Cornelis de Man born in Delft
- 1858: Willard Metcalf born in Lowell
- 1915: Otto Heinigke died
- 1943: Willem Arondeus died in Overveen
3 July
- 1640: Giuseppe Cesari died in Rome
- 1738: John Singleton Copley born in Boston
- 1866: Ambroise Vollard born in Saint-Denis
- 1886: Olga Rozanova born in Melenki
4 July
- 1845: Edmonia Lewis born in Greenbush
- 1846: Walter Greaves born in Cheyne Walk
- 1898: De Scott Evans died in Cape Sable Island
5 July
- 1560: Juan Sánchez Cotán born in Orgaz
- 1761: Louis-Léopold Boilly born in La Bassée
- 1896: Marcel Ordinaire died
- 1902: Geskel Saloman died in Båstad
- 1906: Jules Breton died in Paris
- 1916: Georges Lemmen died in Uccle
6 July
- 1785: Frederick W. Mayhew born in Chilmark
- 1817: Edward Savage died in Princeton
- 1916: Odilon Redon died in Paris
- 1946: Horace Pippin died in West Chester
7 July
- 1574: Giorgio Vasari died in Florence
- 1879: George Caleb Bingham died in Kansas City
- 1925: Clarence Hudson White died in Mexico City
8 July
- 1577: Peter Paul Rubens born in Siegen
- 1770: Suzuki Harunobu died in Edo
- 1823: Henry Raeburn died in Edinburgh
9 July
- 1828: Gilbert Stuart died in Boston
- 1828: Adolf Schreyer born in Frankfurt
- 1853: William Turner Dannat born in New York City
- 1867: Gad Frederik Clement born in Frederiksberg
- 1893: Axel Bentzen born in Copenhagen
10 July
- 1759: Pierre-Joseph Redouté born in Saint-Hubert
- 1799: Nagasawa Rosetsu died
- 1823: Sanford Robinson Gifford born in Greenfield
- 1830: Camille Pissarro born in Charlotte Amalie
11 July
- 1780: Luis Egidio Meléndez died in Madrid
- 1834: James McNeill Whistler born in Lowell
- 1865: Ammi Phillips died
- 1885: Roger de La Fresnaye born in Le Mans
- 1887: Joseph Ernest Sampson born in Liverpool
- 1931: Jean-Louis Forain died in Paris
- 1931: Giovanni Boldini died in Paris
12 July
- 1824: Eugène Louis Boudin born in Honfleur
- 1863: Charles Cottet born in Le Puy-en-Velay
- 1884: Amedeo Modigliani born in Livorno
- 1913: Gaston La Touche died in 7th arrondissement of Paris
- 1929: Robert Henri died in New York City
13 July
- 1757: Thomas Rowlandson born in Old Jewry
- 1831: James Northcote died in London
- 1908: Fridolin Johansen died
14 July
- 1862: Gustav Klimt born in Baumgarten
- 1928: Johann Georg van Caspel died in Laren
15 July
- 1609: Annibale Carracci died in Rome
- 1808: George Peter Alexander Healy born in Boston
- 1883: Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin died in Paris
16 July
- 1796: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot born in Rue du Bac
- 1931: Alice Pike Barney died in Los Angeles
17 July
- 1867: Kikukawa Eizan died
- 1903: James McNeill Whistler died in Chelsea
- 1948: Gustaf Fjæstad died in Arvika
18 July
- 1441: Jan van Eyck died in Bruges
- 1760: Philippe Mercier died in London
- 1788: Heinrich Reinhold born in Gera
- 1868: Emanuel Leutze died in Washington, D.C.
19 July
- 1580: Friedrich Brentel born in Lauingen
- 1793: Thomas Doughty born in Philadelphia
- 1834: Edgar Degas born in Paris
- 1946: Jan Verkade died in Beuron
20 July
- 1895: Lilian May Miller born in Tokyo
21 July
- 1799: Mathias Stoltenberg born in Tønsberg
- 1939: Ambroise Vollard died in Versailles
22 July
- 1853: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg died in Copenhagen
- 1856: Thomas Doughty died in New York City
- 1860: Paul Fischer born in Copenhagen
- 1903: Eric Ravilious born in London
23 July
- 1840: Carl Blechen died in Berlin
- 1845: Godfred Christensen born in Copenhagen
- 1905: Jean-Jacques Henner died in Paris
24 July
- 1601: Joris Hoefnagel died in Vienna
- 1680: Ferdinand Bol died in Amsterdam
- 1860: Alphonse Mucha born in Ivančice
- 1944: Adolphe Crespin died in Brussels
25 July
- 1487: Andrea del Sarto born in Florence
- 1781: Merry-Joseph Blondel born in Paris
- 1814: Edmond Bacot born in Caen
- 1844: Thomas Eakins born in Philadelphia
- 1873: Henri Meunier born
26 July
- 1829: Bernard d'Agesci died in Niort
27 July
- 1870: Jan Mirosław Peszke born in Pervomaisk
- 1882: Alexandre Desgoffe died in Paris
28 July
- 1862: Fritz Syberg born in Faaborg
- 1925: Léon Augustin Lhermitte died in Paris
29 July
- 1798: Carl Blechen born in Cottbus
- 1824: Eastman Johnson born in Lovell
- 1838: Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour born in Boulogne-sur-Mer
- 1884: Gustave Le Gray died in Cairo
- 1890: Vincent van Gogh died in Auvers-sur-Oise
- 1899: Adolf Schreyer died in Kronberg im Taunus
30 July
- 1746: Francesco Trevisani died in Rome
1 August
- 1556: Girolamo da Carpi died in Ferrara
- 1638: Joachim Wtewael died in Utrecht
- 1659: Sebastiano Ricci born in Belluno
2 August
- 1627: Samuel van Hoogstraten born in Dordrecht
- 1644: Bernardo Strozzi died in Venice
- 1788: Thomas Gainsborough died in London
- 1820: Georg Emil Libert born in Copenhagen
- 1834: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi born in Colmar
- 1880: Arthur Dove born in Canandaigua
- 1913: George Hitchcock died in Marken
3 August
- 1894: George Inness died in Bridge of Allan
- 1907: Augustus Saint-Gaudens died in Cornish
- 1923: Jacoba van Heemskerck died in Domburg
4 August
- 1851: Francesco Paolo Michetti born in Tocco da Casauria
- 1853: John Henry Twachtman born in Cincinnati
- 1908: Piet Verhaert died in Oostduinkerke
5 August
- 1713: Teresa del Po died in Naples
- 1811: Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller died in Wilmington
7 August
- 1660: Diego Velázquez died in Madrid
- 1862: William Turner died in St John Street
- 1875: Gerhard Morgenstjerne Munthe born in Düsseldorf
- 1947: Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke died in Hedvig Eleonora parish
8 August
- 1588: Alonso Sánchez Coello died in Madrid
- 1632: Johann Carl Loth born in Munich
- 1823: Augustin Théodule Ribot born in Saint-Nicolas-d'Attez
- 1869: Louis Valtat born in Dieppe
- 1898: Eugène Louis Boudin died in Deauville
- 1902: John Henry Twachtman died in Gloucester
- 1931: Einar Hein died in Frederiksberg
9 August
- 1511: Giorgio Vasari born in Arezzo
- 1792: Alvan Fisher born in Needham
- 1869: Roger Fenton died in London
- 1919: Ralph Albert Blakelock died in Elizabethtown
- 1943: Chaïm Soutine died in 16th arrondissement of Paris
10 August
- 1495: Jan van Scorel born in Schoorl
- 1848: William Harnett born in Clonakilty
- 1900: René Crevel born in 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris
- 1923: Joaquín Sorolla died in Cercedilla
11 August
- 1819: Martin Johnson Heade born in Lumberville
- 1860: Gari Melchers born in Detroit
12 August
- 1674: Philippe de Champaigne died in Paris
- 1827: William Blake died in London
- 1849: Abbott Handerson Thayer born in Boston
- 1872: Friedrich Fennel born in Kassel
- 1882: George Bellows born in Columbus
- 1911: Jozef Israëls died in Scheveningen
13 August
- 1808: John F. Francis born in Philadelphia
- 1850: Martin Archer Shee died in Brighton
- 1863: Eugène Delacroix died in Paris
- 1865: Fitz Henry Lane died in Gloucester
- 1867: George Luks born in Williamsport
- 1889: John Gregory Crace died in Half Moon Lane
14 August
- 1714: Joseph Vernet born in Avignon
- 1946: William Carqueville died in Chicago
15 August
- 1854: Laurits Andersen Ring born in Ring
- 1913: Julie Hart Beers died in Trenton
- 1935: Paul Signac died in 6th arrondissement of Paris
16 August
- 1801: Ralph Earl died in Bolton
- 1902: Victor Huguet died in Paris
- 1916: Umberto Boccioni died in Verona
17 August
- 1870: Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros died in Paris
18 August
- 1642: Guido Reni died in Bologna
- 1768: Giovanni Domenico Ferretti died in Florence
- 1802: David Lucas born
- 1802: Félix-Jacques Moulin born in Paris
- 1818: Henri Le Secq born in Paris
19 August
- 1632: Valentin de Boulogne died in Rome
- 1657: Frans Snyders died in Antwerp
- 1848: Gustave Caillebotte born in Paris
- 1905: William-Adolphe Bouguereau died in La Rochelle
- 1932: Louis Anquetin died in Paris
20 August
- 1649: Teresa del Po born in Rome
- 1848: Keisai Eisen died in Tokyo
- 1879: William Rimmer died in Massachusetts
21 August
- 1725: Jean-Baptiste Greuze born in Tournus
- 1796: Asher Brown Durand born in Maplewood
- 1807: Narcisse Virgilio Díaz born in Bordeaux
- 1868: Fridolin Johansen born in Frederiksberg
22 August
- 1729: Torii Kiyonobu died in Tokyo
- 1806: Jean-Honoré Fragonard died in former 2nd arrondissement of Paris
- 1808: Laurent Guyot died in Paris
- 1860: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps died in Fontainebleau
- 1881: David Lucas died in Fulham
- 1894: Willem Arondeus born in Naarden
- 1920: Anders Zorn died in Mora Parish
23 August
- 1523: Gerard David died in Bruges
- 1855: Pierre Achille Poirot died in Paris
- 1865: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller died in Hinterbrühl
24 August
- 1787: Kikukawa Eizan born in Edo
- 1906: Alfred Stevens died in 9th arrondissement of Paris
- 1939: Frederick Carl Frieseke died in Le Mesnil-sur-Blangy
25 August
- 1727: Arent de Gelder died in Dordrecht
- 1772: Cosmo Alexander died in Scotland
- 1827: Emile van Marcke born in Sèvres
- 1904: Henri Fantin-Latour died in Buré
- 1926: Thomas Moran died in Santa Barbara
26 August
- 1797: Sheldon Peck born in Cornwall
- 1823: Marcellin Desboutin born in Cérilly
27 August
- 1630: Maria van Oosterwijck born in Nootdorp
- 1664: Francisco de Zurbarán died in Madrid
- 1792: George Cruikshank born in London
- 1876: Eugène Fromentin died in La Rochelle
- 1935: Childe Hassam died in East Hampton
28 August
- 1457: Andrea del Castagno died in Florence
- 1810: Constant Troyon born in Sèvres
- 1833: Edward Burne-Jones born in Birmingham
- 1892: Max Zachmann born in Heidelberg
29 August
- 1780: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born in Montauban
- 1797: Joseph Wright of Derby died in Derby
- 1848: Martinus Rørbye died in Copenhagen
- 1880: Sanford Robinson Gifford died in New York City
30 August
- 1605: Felice Ficherelli born in San Gimignano
- 1727: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo born in Venice
- 1748: Jacques-Louis David born in Paris
- 1820: Gustave Le Gray born in Villiers-le-Bel
- 1852: J. Alden Weir born in West Point
- 1917: Otto Carl Bentzon Haslund died in Koldby
1 September
- 1666: Frans Hals died in Haarlem
- 1706: Cornelis de Man died in Delft
- 1792: Chester Harding born in Conway
- 1895: Joseph Schillinger born in Kharkiv
- 1916: Alexandre Lunois died in Yvelines
- 1952: Josef Geis died in Munich
2 September
- 1942: Eric Ravilious died in Iceland
- 1943: Marsden Hartley died in Ellsworth
3 September
- 1734: Joseph Wright of Derby born in Derby
- 1826: Alberto Pasini born in Busseto
4 September
- 1904: Martin Johnson Heade died in St. Augustine
- 1910: Henri Rousseau died in Paris
5 September
- 1774: Caspar David Friedrich born in Greifswald
- 1837: Janus la Cour born in Ringkøbing
- 1869: Ernest Ludvig Ipsen born in Malden
- 1891: Jules-Élie Delaunay died in 9th arrondissement of Paris
6 September
- 1476: Kanō Motonobu born in Kyoto
- 1559: Garofalo died in Ferrara
- 1585: Luca Cambiaso died in Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
- 1898: William Mason Brown died
7 September
- 1910: William Holman Hunt died in London
8 September
- 1489: Antonio da Correggio born
- 1627: Juan Sánchez Cotán died in Granada
- 1879: William Morris Hunt died in Appledore Island
- 1922: Henri Meunier died in Brussels metropolitan area
- 1954: André Derain died in Garches
9 September
- 1815: John Singleton Copley died in London
- 1901: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died in Château Malromé
- 1918: Louis Abel-Truchet died in Auxerre
10 September
- 1822: John Adams Whipple born in Grafton
- 1847: Kobayashi Kiyochika born in Honjo
- 1933: Laurits Andersen Ring died in Sankt Jørgensbjerg Parish
11 September
- 1854: Hippolyte Petitjean born in Mâcon
- 1860: Marianne von Werefkin born in Tula
- 1891: Augustin Théodule Ribot died in Colombes
- 1898: Henry Lørup died in Copenhagen
12 September
- 1378: Bartolomeo Bulgarini died in Siena
- 1532: Jan Gossaert died in Breda
13 September
- 1436: Benvenuto di Giovanni born in Siena
14 September
- 1745: Nicolas Lancret died in Paris
17 September
- 1858: Robert Vonnoh born in Hartford
- 1877: William Henry Fox Talbot died in Lacock
- 1886: Asher Brown Durand died in Maplewood
- 1907: Edmonia Lewis died in Hammersmith
- 1942: Cecilia Beaux died in Gloucester
18 September
- 1868: Jan Verkade born in Zaandam
- 1929: Hippolyte Petitjean died in Paris
- 1939: Gwen John died in Dieppe
- 1951: Pamela Colman Smith died in Bude
19 September
- 1569: Pieter Brueghel the Elder died in Brussels
- 1927: Michael Ancher died in Skagen
20 September
- 1873: George Marinus Tamson born in Middelburg
- 1925: Charles Cottet died in 14th arrondissement of Paris
21 September
- 1791: Théodore Géricault born in Rouen
- 1825: George Henry Hall born in Boston
- 1832: Jean-Baptiste François Desoria died in Cambrai
22 September
- 1607: Alessandro Allori died in Florence
- 1706: Barbara Regina Dietzsch born in Nuremberg
- 1725: Joseph-Siffred Duplessis born in Carpentras
23 September
- 1506: Andrea Mantegna died in Mantua
- 1828: Richard Parkes Bonington died in London
- 1840: Henri Leopold Levy born in Rue Saint-Dizier
- 1870: Tsuchiya Kōitsu born in Hamamatsu
- 1878: Carl Kylberg born
- 1932: Jules Chéret died in Nice
24 September
- 1930: Otto Mueller died in Oborniki
25 September
- 1691: Tosa Mitsuoki died in Kyoto
- 1949: Henri Manguin died in Gassin
26 September
- 1914: August Macke died in Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus
27 September
- 1874: Nicholas Roerich born in Saint Petersburg
- 1917: Edgar Degas died in Paris
- 1941: Niels Larsen Stevns died in Frederiksberg
28 September
- 1882: Rikard Lindström born in Jakob and Johannes parish
29 September
- 1703: François Boucher born in Paris
- 1841: Johann Georg von Dillis died in Munich
- 1850: George Hitchcock born in Providence
- 1892: Stanislas Lépine died in 18th arrondissement of Paris
- 1904: Monroe Tsatoke born
- 1910: Winslow Homer died in Prouts Neck
- 1924: Julius Mendes Price died in London
30 September
- 1640: Jacopo da Empoli died in Florence
- 1942: Jacques-Émile Blanche died in Offranville
1 October
- 1600: Jacques Blanchard born in Paris
- 1685: Kanō Yasunobu died in Edo
- 1873: Edwin Landseer died in London
2 October
- 1839: Hans Thoma born in Bernau im Schwarzwald
- 1839: Hans Smidth born in Nakskov
- 1936: Emil Cardinaux died in Bern
- 1942: Adolph Larsen died in Svejbæk
3 October
- 1803: Paul Huet born in Paris
- 1810: Louis-Rémy Robert born in Paris
- 1829: Constant Mayer born in Besançon
- 1865: Gustave Loiseau born in Paris
- 1867: Pierre Bonnard born in Fontenay-aux-Roses
- 1872: Henri Evenepoel born in Nice
- 1884: Hans Makart died in Vienna
4 October
- 1497: Benozzo Gozzoli died in Pistoia
- 1657: Francesco Solimena born in Serino
- 1660: Francesco Albani died in Bologna
- 1720: Giovanni Battista Piranesi born in Venice
- 1814: Jean-François Millet born in Gruchy
- 1857: Vilhelm Theodor Fischer born in Holbæk
- 1860: Rembrandt Peale died in Philadelphia
- 1861: Frederic Remington born in Canton
- 1904: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi died in 6th arrondissement of Paris
- 1936: Henri Privat-Livemont died
5 October
- 1657: Bartholomeus Breenbergh died in Amsterdam
- 1869: Ellen Thesleff born in Helsinki
- 1872: Christjern Schobius born in Aalborg
6 October
- 1576: Titian died in Venice
- 1889: Jules Dupré died in L'Isle-Adam
- 1928: Peter Hansen died in Faaborg
7 October
- 1626: Paul Bril died in Rome
- 1697: Giovanni Antonio Canal born in Venice
- 1856: John White Alexander born in Allegheny
- 1927: Paul Sérusier died in Morlaix
8 October
- 1801: Veronica Stern died in Rome
- 1890: Thomas Hicks died
- 1955: Charles Verschuuren died in New York City
9 October
- 1518: Jacopo Tintoretto born in Venice
- 1530: Andrea del Sarto died in Florence
- 1571: Caravaggio born in Milan
- 1754: Jean-Baptiste Regnault born in Paris
- 1848: Frank Duveneck born in Covington
- 1861: Henri Privat-Livemont born
10 October
- 1858: Maurice Prendergast born in St. John's
- 1935: Gustave Loiseau died in 4th arrondissement of Paris
11 October
- 1574: Maarten van Heemskerck died in Haarlem
- 1843: Elias V. Coe died
- 1878: Karl Hofer born in Karlsruhe
12 October
- 1678: Pieter Codde died in Amsterdam
- 1773: Giovanni Francesco Costa died in Venice
- 1793: Louis-Marin Bonnet died in Saint-Mandé
- 1858: Utagawa Hiroshige died in Edo
- 1915: Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig died in Laren
- 1934: Gertrude Käsebier died in New York City
13 October
- 1717: Wang Hui died in Changshu
- 1909: Janus la Cour died in Odder
14 October
- 1628: Palma il Giovane died in Venice
- 1767: Benjamin Marshall born in Seagrave
- 1824: Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli born in Marseille
15 October
- 1557: Francesco Bacchiacca died in Florence
- 1847: Ralph Albert Blakelock born in New York City
- 1895: Jacques J. Ottens born
16 October
- 1827: Arnold Böcklin born in Basel
- 1858: Suzuki Kiitsu died in Edo
- 1874: Otto Mueller born in Lubawka
17 October
- 1469: Filippo Lippi died in Spoleto
- 1796: Leopold Kupelwieser born in Markt Piesting
- 1821: Alexander Gardner born in Paisley
- 1854: Frederick W. Mayhew died in Cambridge
- 1859: Childe Hassam born in Dorchester
18 October
- 1618: Kanō Takanobu died
- 1634: Luca Giordano born in Naples
- 1678: Jacob Jordaens died in Antwerp
- 1823: Thomas Hicks born in Newtown
- 1850: Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel born in Orléans
- 1918: Egon Schiele died in Vienna
- 1918: Koloman Moser died in Vienna
19 October
- 1678: Samuel van Hoogstraten died in Dordrecht
- 1794: Charles Robert Leslie born in London
- 1882: Umberto Boccioni born in Reggio Calabria
- 1926: Ludvig Karsten died in Paris
20 October
- 1620: Aelbert Cuyp born in Dordrecht
- 1656: Nicolas de Largillière born in Paris
- 1673: Barent Fabritius died in Amsterdam
- 1855: Poul Simon Christiansen born
- 1943: Rikard Lindström died in Jakob parish
21 October
- 1765: Giovanni Paolo Panini died in Rome
- 1869: Utagawa Hiroshige II died
22 October
- 1746: James Northcote born in Plymouth
- 1860: Julius Paulsen born in Odense
- 1906: Paul Cézanne died in Aix-en-Provence
23 October
- 1617: Tosa Mitsuoki born in Sakai
- 1835: Stanislas Lépine born in Caen
- 1852: Jean-Louis Forain born in Reims
- 1917: Eugène Grasset died in Sceaux
24 October
- 1607: Jan Lievens born in Leiden
- 1898: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes died in Paris
- 1928: Vilhelm Theodor Fischer died in Frederiksberg
25 October
- 1802: Richard Parkes Bonington born in Arnold
- 1916: William Merritt Chase died in New York City
- 1921: N.P. Mols died in Copenhagen
- 1941: Robert Delaunay died in Montpellier
26 October
- 1645: Arent de Gelder born in Dordrecht
- 1820: Kubo Shunman died in Edo
27 October
- 1816: Santō Kyōden died
- 1856: Kenyon Cox born in Warren
28 October
- 1351: Musō Soseki died in Rinsen-ji Temple
- 1527: Luca Cambiaso born in Moneglia
- 1737: Gawen Hamilton died in London
- 1836: Homer Dodge Martin born in Albany
- 1855: Robert Matthew Sully died
29 October
- 1804: George Morland died in London
- 1854: Gaston La Touche born in Saint-Cloud
- 1892: William Harnett died in New York City
- 1933: George Luks died in New York City
- 1946: Joseph Ernest Sampson died in York Mills
30 October
- 1741: Angelica Kauffmann born in Chur
- 1839: Alfred Sisley born in Paris
- 1876: Astrid Holm born in Copenhagen
31 October
- 1517: Fra Bartolomeo died in Florence
- 1638: Meindert Hobbema born in Amsterdam
- 1760: Katsushika Hokusai born in Honjo
- 1806: Kitagawa Utamaro died in Edo
- 1843: Henri Regnault born in former 12th arrondissement of Paris
- 1900: Eugène Cuvelier died in Thomery
- 1947: Arnold van Roessel died in Bussum
1 November
- 1629: Hendrick ter Brugghen died in Utrecht
- 1848: Jules Bastien-Lepage born in Damvillers
- 1849: William Merritt Chase born in Nineveh
- 1925: Ernest Haskell died in Phippsburg
2 November
- 1523: Luca Signorelli died in Cortona
- 1605: Stradanus died in Florence
- 1699: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin born in Paris
- 1858: Niels Skovgaard born in Copenhagen
- 1871: Mathias Stoltenberg died in Vang Municipality
- 1951: Ernest Ludvig Ipsen died in United States
3 November
- 1817: Ernest Hébert born in Grenoble
- 1850: Hans Michael Therkildsen born
- 1903: Walker Evans born in St. Louis
- 1943: Maurice Denis died in Hôpital Cochin
- 1954: Henri Matisse died in Nice
4 November
- 1592: Gerard van Honthorst born in Utrecht
- 1842: Otto Carl Bentzon Haslund born in Copenhagen
5 November
- 1872: Thomas Sully died in Philadelphia
- 1878: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin born in Khvalynsk
- 1943: Lodewijk Schelfhout died in Amstelveen
- 1955: Maurice Utrillo died in Dax
6 November
- 1624: Barent Fabritius born in Middenbeemster
- 1698: Johann Carl Loth died in Venice
7 November
- 1598: Francisco de Zurbarán born in Fuente de Cantos
- 1916: Henry Ward Ranger died in New York City
- 1949: Ville Jais Nielsen died in Gentofte
8 November
- 1082: Emperor Huizong of Song born in Kaifeng
- 1905: William Trost Richards died in New York City
- 1918: Olga Rozanova died in Moscow
9 November
- 1802: Thomas Girtin died in Southwark
- 1864: Paul Sérusier born in Paris
- 1867: Margaret Jordan Patterson born in Surabaya
- 1909: William Powell Frith died in London
- 1942: Charles Courtney Curran died in Manhattan
10 November
- 1540: Joos van Cleve died in Antwerp
- 1638: Jacques Blanchard died in Paris
- 1738: Benjamin West born in Springfield Township
- 1843: John Trumbull died in New York City
- 1911: Félix Ziem died in Paris
11 November
- 1579: Frans Snyders born in Antwerp
- 1638: Cornelis van Haarlem died in Haarlem
- 1829: Carleton Watkins born in Oneonta
- 1863: Paul Signac born in 2nd arrondissement of Paris
- 1868: Édouard Vuillard born in Cuiseaux
- 1877: Emil Cardinaux born in Bern
- 1878: Robert Havell died in Tarrytown
12 November
- 1693: Maria van Oosterwijck died in Uitdam
- 1789: William Turner born in Black Bourton
- 1829: Jean-Baptiste Regnault died in Paris
- 1833: Martín Rico born in Madrid
- 1936: Patrick Henry Bruce died in New York City
13 November
- 1619: Ludovico Carracci died in Bologna
- 1858: Edmond Aman-Jean born in Chevry-Cossigny
- 1903: Camille Pissarro died in Paris
- 1949: Tsuchiya Kōitsu died in Chigasaki
14 November
- 1575: Guido Reni born in Bologna
- 1625: Giulio Cesare Procaccini died in Milan
- 1840: Claude Monet born in Paris
- 1852: Antonio Mancini born in Albano Laziale
- 1910: John La Farge died in Providence
- 1933: Poul Simon Christiansen died in Sankt Josephs Hospital
- 1939: George Marinus Tamson died
15 November
- 1559: Kanō Motonobu died in Kyoto
- 1691: Aelbert Cuyp died in Dordrecht
- 1701: Pietro Longhi born in Venice
- 1802: George Romney died in Kendal
- 1886: John F. Francis died
- 1928: Godfred Christensen died in Copenhagen
17 November
- 1412: Zanobi Strozzi born in Florence
- 1780: Bernardo Bellotto died in Warsaw
- 1862: Leopold Kupelwieser died in Vienna
- 1925: Guy Rose died in Pasadena
18 November
- 1838: William Keith born in Oldmeldrum
- 1856: Joakim Skovgaard born in Copenhagen
- 1876: Narcisse Virgilio Díaz died in Menton
- 1879: Edvard Weie born in Copenhagen
19 November
- 1617: Eustache Le Sueur born in Paris
- 1665: Nicolas Poussin died in Rome
- 1868: William Sidney Mount died in Stony Brook
- 1949: James Ensor died in Ostend
20 November
- 1593: Hans Bol died in Pétaouchnok
- 1625: Paulus Potter born in Enkhuizen
- 1907: Paula Modersohn-Becker died in Worpswede
- 1909: Peder Severin Krøyer died in Skagen
- 1934: Charles Martin died in Paris
21 November
- 1717: Jean-Baptiste Santerre died in Paris
22 November
- 1817: François Bonvin born in Paris
- 1930: Jacques J. Ottens died
23 November
- 1682: Claude Lorrain died in Rome
- 1749: Franz Innocenz Josef Kobell born in Mannheim
- 1862: Théo van Rysselberghe born in Ghent
- 1890: El Lissitzky born in Pochinok
- 1907: John F. Peto died in New York City
- 1946: Arthur Dove died in Huntington
24 November
- 1864: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec born in Albi
- 1869: Thomas Chambers died in England
- 1949: Lillian Causey died
25 November
- 1793: Robert Havell born in Reading
- 1865: Georges Lemmen born
- 1870: Maurice Denis born in Granville
26 November
- 1761: Edward Savage born in Princeton
- 1807: William Sidney Mount born in Long Island
- 1822: Lilly Martin Spencer born in Exeter
27 November
- 1503: Bronzino born in Florence
- 1729: Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays born in Rouen
- 1821: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon born in Paris
- 1856: Adolph Larsen born in Copenhagen
- 1894: Katherine Milhous born in Philadelphia
- 1925: Roger de La Fresnaye died in Grasse
28 November
- 1470: Wen Zhengming born in Suzhou
- 1757: William Blake born in London
- 1848: Cesare Augusto Detti born in Spoleto
- 1864: Carel Adolph Lion Cachet born in Amsterdam
- 1870: Frédéric Bazille died in Beaune-la-Rolande
- 1915: Kobayashi Kiyochika died in Tokyo Prefecture
- 1930: Walter Greaves died in London
29 November
- 1543: Hans Holbein the Younger died in London
- 1869: Harald Sohlberg born in Christiania
- 1910: Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour died in 17th arrondissement of Paris
30 November
- 1493: Jacopo da Sellaio died in Florence
- 1820: Adriaan de Lelie died in Amsterdam
- 1825: William-Adolphe Bouguereau born in La Rochelle
- 1867: Henri Gabriel Ibels born in 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris
- 1932: Gari Melchers died in Fredericksburg
1 December
- 1571: Kanō Takanobu born in Kyoto
2 December
- 1405: Sano di Pietro born in Siena
- 1859: Georges Seurat born in former 5th arrondissement of Paris
- 1861: Emilie Mediz-Pelikan born in Vöcklabruck
3 December
- 1572: Bronzino died in Florence
- 1755: Gilbert Stuart born in North Kingstown
- 1789: Joseph Vernet died in Paris
- 1919: Pierre-Auguste Renoir died in Cagnes-sur-Mer
4 December
- 1836: Richard Westall died in London
- 1866: Wassily Kandinsky born in Moscow
- 1868: Richard Roland Holst born in Amsterdam
- 1934: Paul-Albert Besnard died in 17th arrondissement of Paris
5 December
- 1908: Ernest Hébert died in La Tronche
- 1911: Rudolf Bissen died in Randbøldal
- 1926: Claude Monet died in Giverny
- 1977: Katherine Milhous died in Philadelphia
6 December
- 1468: Zanobi Strozzi died in Florence
- 1750: Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes born in Toulouse
- 1779: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin died in Paris
- 1787: Jakob Wilhelm Hüber born in Düsseldorf
- 1841: Frédéric Bazille born in Montpellier
7 December
- 1709: Meindert Hobbema died in Amsterdam
8 December
- 1681: Gerard ter Borch died in Deventer
- 1750: Giuseppe Cades born in Rome
- 1799: Giuseppe Cades died in Rome
- 1919: J. Alden Weir died in New York City
9 December
- 1516: Giovanni Bellini died in Venice
- 1641: Anthony van Dyck died in Blackfriars
- 1824: Anne-Louis Girodet died in Paris
10 December
- 1519: Michael Wolgemut died in Nuremberg
- 1610: Adriaen van Ostade born in Haarlem
- 1882: Alexander Gardner died in Washington, D.C.
- 1884: Jules Bastien-Lepage died in 17th arrondissement of Paris
- 1910: Seymour Joseph Guy died in New York City
- 1933: Bernd Steiner died in Vienna
11 December
- 1599: Pieter Codde born in Amsterdam
- 1610: Adam Elsheimer died in Rome
- 1808: Thomas Chambers born in England
- 1856: Evert Pieters born in Amsterdam
12 December
- 1795: Julien Vallou de Villeneuve born in Boissy-Saint-Léger
- 1821: Pierre Andrieu born in Fenouillet
- 1863: Edvard Munch born in Ådalsbruk
- 1879: Félix-Jacques Moulin died in Paris
13 December
- 1836: Franz von Lenbach born in Schrobenhausen
- 1922: Arthur Wesley Dow died in New York City
- 1923: Théophile Steinlen died in 18th arrondissement of Paris
- 1926: Théo van Rysselberghe died in Le Lavandou
- 1947: Nicholas Roerich died in Kullu
14 December
- 1824: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes born in Lyon
- 1861: Auguste Edouart died in Guînes
- 1872: John Frederick Kensett died in New York City
- 1881: John Quidor died in Jersey City
- 1944: Wassily Kandinsky died in Neuilly-sur-Seine
15 December
- 1899: Alberto Pasini died in Cavoretto
16 December
- 1562: Jan van Scorel died in Utrecht
- 1597: Pieter de Neyn born in Leiden
17 December
- 1872: Cyril Power born in England
- 1937: Astrid Holm died in Frederiksberg
18 December
- 1879: Paul Klee born in Münchenbuchsee
- 1917: Max Zachmann died in Flanders
- 1939: Ernest Lawson died in Coral Gables
- 1939: Bruno Liljefors died in Uppsala Cathedral Assembly
19 December
- 1804: Fitz Henry Lane born in Gloucester
- 1851: J. M. W. Turner died in Cheyne Walk
- 1856: Franz Ludwig Catel died in Rome
- 1887: François Bonvin died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye
- 1890: Eugène Lami died in Paris
20 December
- 1629: Pieter de Hooch born in Rotterdam
- 1792: Nicolas Toussaint Charlet born in Paris
- 1939: Fritz Syberg died in Kerteminde
21 December
- 1696: Louise Moillon died in Paris
- 1815: Thomas Couture born in Senlis
- 1871: Paul Guigou died in 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris
- 1872: Robert Seldon Duncanson died in Detroit
22 December
- 1666: Guercino died in Bologna
- 1679: Jan van de Cappelle died in Amsterdam
- 1849: Christian Rohlfs born in Groß Niendorf
- 1867: Théodore Rousseau died in Barbizon
- 1868: Gustaf Fjæstad born in Stockholm
- 1889: Édouard Baldus died in Arcueil
23 December
- 1749: Mark Catesby died in London
- 1769: Martin Archer Shee born in Dublin
- 1872: George Catlin died in Jersey City
24 December
- 1754: Gainsborough Dupont born in Sudbury
- 1882: Henri Le Secq died in Paris
- 1890: Emile van Marcke died in Hyères
26 December
- 1534: Hans Bol born in Mechelen
- 1759: Johann Georg von Dillis born in Dorfen
- 1883: Maurice Utrillo born in 18th arrondissement of Paris
- 1909: Frederic Remington died in Ridgefield
27 December
- 1802: Thomas Fearnley born in Halden
- 1817: Pierre-Michel Alix died in Paris
- 1864: Hermann-Paul born in 7th arrondissement of Paris
- 1899: Henri Evenepoel died in Paris
- 1924: Léon Bakst died in Rueil-Malmaison
- 1950: Max Beckmann died in New York City
28 December
- 1656: Laurent de La Hyre died in Paris
- 1853: Sarah Goodridge died in Boston
- 1865: Félix Vallotton born in Lausanne
- 1905: Louis Dalrymple died
- 1930: Antonio Mancini died in Rome
- 1933: Robert Vonnoh died in Nice
29 December
- 1825: Jacques-Louis David died in Brussels
- 1857: Louis Abel-Truchet born in Versailles
- 1904: Henri Leopold Levy died in boulevard de Clichy
- 1925: Félix Vallotton died in Neuilly-sur-Seine
30 December
- 1845: Nicolas Toussaint Charlet died in Paris
- 1867: Henry Lørup born in Copenhagen
- 1909: Walter Shirlaw died in Madrid
- 1941: El Lissitzky died in Moscow
31 December
- 1617: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo born in Seville
- 1842: Giovanni Boldini born in Ferrara
- 1869: Henri Matisse born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis
- 1877: Gustave Courbet died in La Tour-de-Peilz
- 1877: Adolphe Braun died in Dornach
- 1881: Max Pechstein born in Zwickau