Francisco de Goya, consummately Spanish artist whose multifarious paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Like Velazquez, Goya was a Spanish court painter whose best work was done apart from his official duties. He is known for his scenes of violence, especially those prompted by the French invasion of Spain.
Frans Hals (1582-1666) was the first great artist of the 17th-century Dutch school and is regarded as one of the most brilliant of all portraitists. Almost all his works are portraits and even those that are not (some genre scenes, and an occasional religious picture) are portrait-like in character. He was considered by some as second in the Netherlands only to Rembrandt, he displayed extraordinary talent and quickness in his art.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters in the art history.
He was initially successful as a portrait painter, and the self portraits he made throughout his life provide us with a remarkable pictorial autobiography.
Rembrandt, however, probably thought of himself primarily as a history painter, and this type of work is represented in the collection by ‘Belshazzar’s Feast‘, ‘The Woman taken in Adultery‘ and a number of other paintings of religious subjects.
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