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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  • Edward Killingworth Johnson

    Edward Killingworth Johnson RWS (1825-1896) was a British wood-engraver, illustrator, and watercolour... 

  • Eastman Johnson

    Jonathan Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) was an American painter whose career spanned much... 

  • Joshua Johnson

    Joshua Johns[t]on (c.1763–c.1824) was an American painter from the vicinity of Baltimore,... 

  • Ernest Jones

    Ernest Harold Jones (1877-1911) was a British artist and excavator who identified... 

  • Owen Jones

    Owen Jones (1809–1874) was a pioneering English architect, designer, and theorist whose... 

  • Louise Jopling

    Louise Jopling (1843-1933) was a prominent British painter, author, and advocate for... 

  • Jacob Jordaens

    Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) stands as one of the most influential painters of... 

  • Gustave-Henri Jossot

    Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim Jossot (1866-1951), was a French... 

  • William Joy & John Cantiloe Joy

    William Joy (1803-1865) and John Cantiloe Joy (1805-1859) were notable British marine... 

  • Moriz Jung

    Moriz Jung (1885-1915) was an Austrian artist and graphic designer. He is... 

  • Nico Jungman

    Nicolaas Wilhelm Jungmann, in England frequently spelled Jungman (1872-1935), was an Anglo-Dutch... 

  • Frida Kahlo

    Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (1907-1954) was a Mexican painter known... 

  • Willem Kalf

    Willem Kalf (1619-1693) ranks among the most distinguished still-life painters of the... 

  • Wassily Kandinsky

    Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Born in... 

  • Sarkis Katchadourian

    Sarkis Katchadourian (1886-1947) was an Armenian artist. Katchadourian was born on 9... 

  • Edward McKnight Kauffer image of flamingos

    Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) was an American artist and graphic designer who... 

  • Angelica Kauffman

    Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) stands as one of the most influential female artists... 

  • William Kennedy

    William Kennedy (1859-1918) was a Scottish painter associated with the Glasgow School.... 

  • Georg Friedrich Kersting

    Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785-1847) was a German painter, best known for his... 

  • John Keulemans

    John Gerard Keulemans, born Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (1842-1912), was a Dutch bird... 

  • Fernand Khnopff

    Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) was a Belgian Symbolist artist whose enigmatic works continue... 

  • L. Leigh Kidman

    Lilian Leigh Kidman (1879-1956) was born in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, in... 

  • Anne Killigrew

    Anne Killigrew (1660-1685) was a remarkable figure in the late seventeenth-century English... 

  • King, Henry John Yeend

    Henry John Yeend King (1855-1924) was a London landscape and rustic genre... 

  • Jessie M. King

    Jessie Marion King (1875-1949) was a prominent Scottish illustrator, designer, 'Glasgow Girl'... 

  • William Gunning King

    William Gunning King (1859-1940) was a painter, etcher and illustrator, especially of... 

  • Ernst Kirchner

    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and... 

  • Maria Kirk

    Maria Louise Kirk (1860-1938), usually credited as M.L. Kirk or Maria L.... 

  • Elizabeth Persis Kirmse

    Elizabeth Persis Esperance Kirmse (1884-1955) was a British artist and illustrator known... 

  • Moïse Kisling

    Moïse Kisling (1891-1953) was a Polish-born French painter. Born in Kraków, then... 

  • Paul Klee - Senecio

    Paul Klee (1879-1940) was a Swiss German artist born in 1879 in... 

  • Gustav Klimt - The Kiss

    Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was a seminal Austrian painter whose unique style and... 

  • Julius Klinger

    Julius Klinger (1876-1942) was an Austrian painter, draftsman, illustrator, commercial graphic artist,... 

  • Hilma af Klint

    Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a pioneering Swedish artist who is now... 

  • Sir Godrey Kneller

    Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) stands as one of the most significant portrait... 

  • William Henry Knight

    William Henry Knight (1823-1863) was an English portrait and genre painter. Knight... 

  • Broncia Koller-Pinell

    Broncia Koller-Pinell (1863-1934) was an Austrian painter of Polish-Jewish descent, renowned for... 

  • Käthe Kollwitz

    Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was a German artist, renowned for her powerful and... 

  • Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky

    Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Russian Пётр Петрович Кончаловский (1876-1956), was a Russian and... 

  • Ohara Koson

    Ohara Koson (1877-1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of... 

  • Pieter van Kouwenhoorn

    Pieter van Kouwenhoorn or Pieter Kouwenhoorn (1599-c.1654) was a Dutch botanical illustrator.... 

  • Cornelius Krieghoff

    Cornelius David Krieghoff (1815-1872) was a Dutch-born Canadian-American painter of the 19th... 

  • Christian Krohg

    Christian Krohg (1852-1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author, and journalist.... 

  • Peder Severin Kroyer

    Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909) stands as one of Denmark’s most celebrated painters,... 

  • Gotthardt Kuehl

    Gotthardt Kuehl (1850-1915) was a German painter and a representative of early... 

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert

    Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Kuhnert (1865-1926) was a German painter, author and illustrator... 

  • Max Kurzweil

    Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil (1867-1916) was an Austrian painter and... 

  • Adelaide Labille-Guiard

    Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803) stands as one of the most remarkable female artists... 

  • Charles de Lacy

    Charles John de Lacy (1856-1929) was one of the foremost British marine... 

  • John St. Helier Lander

    John St Helier Lander (1868-1944) was a noted portrait painter. Born John... 

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