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An index of illustrators and artists to help you navigate our collection and enjoy some chance encounters along the way.
Artists whose names begin with 'R'
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, 1483-1520), Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
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Edward Tennyson Reed (1860-1933), English cartoonist and illustrator. His work was published in Punch, The Bystander and The Sketch.
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669), Dutch artist, draughtsman and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age, working in a wide range of styles and subjects. He painted many portraits, including self-portraits, as well as landscapes, biblical and mythological subjects, and genre scenes. He is regarded as the greatest of Dutch artists.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), leading French Impressionist painter, with subjects ranging from portraits and social scenes to landscapes and still lifes.
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Paul Renouard (1845-1924), French painter and engraver, worked extensively for The Graphic.
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Charles Robinson (1870-1937), English painter and illustrator. Older brother of William Heath Robinson.
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William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), English cartoonist and illustrator, famous for his drawings of odd contraptions. The term Heath Robinson contraption for any overly complicated, rickety but ingenious machine entered common parlance during the First World War.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), British painter and poet, founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), nicknamed Le Douanier, French post-impressionist self-taught painter working in the naive or primitive style, best known for his jungle scenes. He was made fun of by critics in his lifetime, but his works influenced later artists, and he is now highly regarded.
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), prolific Flemish artist based in Antwerp during the Dutch Golden Age, working in the Flemish Baroque style. His works include Christian, mythological and allegorical subjects, as well as portraits and landscapes. He was also a diplomat and humanist scholar, and received knighthoods from Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England.
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