While presenting the Carnegie Institute's Gold Medal to Beaux in 1899, William Merritt Chase stated " Miss Beaux is not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

The clothing of the sitters in Reynolds ' portraits was usually painted either by one his pupils, his studio assistant Giuseppe Marchi, or the specialist drapery painter Peter Toms James Northcote, his pupil, wrote of this arrangement that " the imitation of particular stuffs is not the work of genius, but is to be acquired easily by practice, and this was what his pupils could do by care and time more than he himself chose to bestow ; but his own slight and masterly work was still the best.

The painter Ustad Mansur became one of the best artists to document the animals and plants which Jahangir either encountered on his military exhibitions or received as donations from emissaries of other countries.

Both Anna Maria and Europa gave up art upon marrying, while Lucia Anguissola, the best painter of Sophonisba's sisters, died young.

According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality.

* Jan van Eyck ( before – before 1441 ), Early Netherlandish painter, considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century.

Nicolas Froment ( 1435 – 1486 ) was the most important painter of Provence during the Renaissance, best known for his triptych of the Burning Bush ,( around 1476 ) commissioned by King René I of Naples.

The painter Hieronymus Bosch ( c. 1450 – 1516 ) remains probably the best known citizen of's-Hertogenbosch.

Henri Fantin-Latour ( 14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904 ) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.

* Vivian Stanshall, musician, painter, singer, broadcaster, songwriter, poet and writer, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, grew up in Grove Road, Walthamstow.

Alfons Maria Mucha (; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939 ), known in English and French as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style.

* Hendrick Avercamp ( Amsterdam, 1585-Kampen, 1634 ), nicknamed " de Stomme van Kampen " ( The Mute of Kampen ), is a painter best known for his small winter landscapes.

Between such things and Orchardson's methods as a painter, the sympathy is close, so that the best among them, " A Tender Chord ", for instance, or " Music, when sweet voices die ", have a rare distinction.

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri ( February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666 ), best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna.

He is best known as a painter in Paris, where he was strongly identified with the Modernist movement and the artistic circles of Montparnasse.

* Emiel Jacques: nl: Emiel Jacques ( Moorslede 1874-Michigan, 1937 ) was a Flemish painter, illustrator and professor, best known for his flax paintings.

Vivian Stanshall ( born Victor Anthony Stanshall ; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995 ) was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.

was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic ( illustration, below ).

James Barry ( 11 October 1741 – 22 February 1806 ), Irish painter, best remembered for his six part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts.

He drives his friend, the novelist Julia Glenn ( patterned after Dorothy Parker ), to drink ; loses his best friend, painter Jonathan Crale ; and betrays his wife, the glamorous actress Althea Royce, simply to gain material comforts and satisfy his ambitions.

Those who translated best the spirit of the work of Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes ' in their own creations were, in Germany, the painter Ludwig von Hofmann and in France, Auguste Rodin.

* Hans Anton Aschenborn, German painter and illustrator best known for his work in Africa during the early twentieth century

In particular, he is best remembered for his promotion of the abstract expressionist movement and was among the first published critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock.

As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.

I leave out of account the question of the best interests of the children, the question of what their best interests really are.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.

Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.

Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

He felt as I felt about this best of all my books, that it was `` really tops ''.

I should have replied, `` I probably know something about the best part of you ''.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

I think we have the hardest working, best representative in Congress.

I will send you the best the quarter has to offer ''.

( Music often sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something more comfortable than a theatre seat.

After lunch, in the arcade on my left just before reaching the street I found a pastry shop that sells some of the best baklava -- a sweet, flaky cake -- in Istanbul.

`` Of late years, I find that I like best to work out-of-doors.

`` As for materials, I use the best available.

After selecting a sheet and inspecting it for flaws ( even the best sometimes has foreign ' nubbins ' on its surface ), I sponge it thoroughly on both sides with clean, cold water.

Even though I have always had a genius for `` throwing myself '' into every role and `` playing it for all it's worth '', no actress can be expected to do her best work when her fortune, her reputation, her livelihood, her home and her nation itself are all imperilled.

a lovely Epiphany party at Errol Flynn's, on which sacred occasion Letch stole away with an unknown `` starlet '', leaving me `` high and dry '' to get home as best I could.

This theory has been put so clearly and precisely that it deserves criticism of the same kind, and this I will do my best to supply.

This way of escape is theoretically possible, but since it has grave difficulties of its own and has not, so far as I know, been urged by positivists, it is perhaps best not to spend time over it.