Artists' April Birthdays

If you have an April birthday, see if an artist was born on the same day. They may be less well known, but you can discover interesting things about them and their work, maybe even a connection.

Artists’ Birthdays in April

·        1 Edwin Austin Abbey, Am., 1852

·        2 Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Fr., 1834, Max Ernst, Gr., 1891

·        4 Edward Hicks, Am., 1780, Pierre Paul Prud’hon, Fr., 1758, Maurice de Vlaminck, Fr., 1876

·        5 Jules Dupre, Fr., 1811, Jean Honore Fragonard, Fr., 1732, Felix Nadar, Fr., 1820

·        6 Rene Lalique, Fr., 1860, Gustave Moreau, Fr., 1826, Raphael, It., 1483

·        7 Gerard Dou, Dutch, 1613, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Am., 1874, Gino Severini, It., 1883

·        8 Cornelis de Heem, Dutch, 1631, Clarence H. White, Am., 1871

·        9 Charles Burchfield, Am., 1893, Eadweard Muybridge, Br., 1830, Victor Vasarely, Fr., 1908

·        10 Ben Nicholson, Br., 1894, Kenneth Noland, Am., 1924

·        11 John Northcote Nash, Br., 1893, Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian, 1869

·        12 Imogen Cunningham, Am., 1893, Robert Delaunay, Fr., 1885

·        13 James Ensor, Belgian, 1860, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Br., 1769

·        14 Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Fr., 1724

·        15 Charles Willson Peale, Am., 1741, Theodore Rousseau, Fr., 1812, Leonardo da Vinci, It., 1452

·        16 Ford Madox Brown, Br., 1821, John Chamberlain, Am., 1927, Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun, Fr., 1755

·        18 Wynn Bulock, Am., 1902, Ludwig Meidner, Gr., 1884, Max Weber, Am., 1881

·        19 Veronese (named for his home town, Verona), It., 1528

·        20 Daniel Chester French, Am., 1850, Joan Miro, Sp., 1893, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Gr., 1805

·        21 Lodovico Carracci, It., 1555, Jean Helion, Fr., 1904, Francesco de Mura, It., 1696

·        22 Sidney Noland, Australian, 1917, Odilon Redon, Fr., 1840

·        23 J. M. W. Turner, Br., 1775

·        24 Willem de Kooning, Am., 1904, Bridget Riley, Br., 1931

·        25 Karel Appel, Dutch, 1921, Giovanni Battista Foggini, It., 1652, Cy Twombly, Am. 1928

·        26 Eugene Delacroix, Fr., 1798, Dorthea Lange, Am., 1895, Edmund Charles Tarbell, Am., 1862

·        27. Samuel F. B. Morse, Am., 1791

·        28 Yves Klein, Fr., 1928

·        29 David Cox, Br., 1783, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, It., 1675

·        30 Francesco Primaticcio, It., 1504