The French painter, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, is celebrated as the most prominent French miniaturist of the early nineteenth century.

Born in Nancy on April 11, 1767, Isabey was highly acclaimed for his portrait “Napoleon at Malmaison”, which is considered one of best likenesses of the emperor.

The English artist, Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, is acclaimed as the pioneer of abstract art in England, whose austere geometric paintings and reliefs were among the most influential abstract works in British art.

Best-known for his Cubist-influenced works, Nicholson was born on April 10, 1894, in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England to the painters Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde.

The Dutch Golden Age painter, Gerrit Dou, also called Gerard Dou, is revered as one of the most famous of all Dutch painters until the beginning of the 19th century.

Considered the founder of the Dutch school of Fijnschilderij, or fine painting, Gerrit Dou was born in Leiden on April 7, 1613.

The English painter of the Victorian era, John William Waterhouse, is acclaimed for his large-scale paintings of Classical mythological subjects.

Known for his association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Waterhouse was born into a family of artists in the city of Rome and baptized on 6 April 1849.

The American photographer and artist, William Henry Jackson, is celebrated as one of the most respected landscape photographers of the American West, whose photographs helped popularize the region.

The great-great nephew of Samuel Wilson, Jackson was born in Keeseville, New York, on April 4, 1843.

The Bulgarian-born American Expressionist painter, Julius Mordecai Pincas, is renowned for his delicate draftsmanship and sensitive studies of women, and for his bohemian depictions of Parisian life in the early 20th century.

Known as the “Prince of Montparnasse” the artist was born in Vidin, Bulgaria on March 31, 1885, to an affluent Sephardic Jewish family.

The Dutch Pos-Impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh, is revered as the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists.

The most famous and influential figure in the history of Western art, Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Zundert, Netherlands.

The American architect, Raymond Hood, is celebrated as the 20th-century’s greatest molder of skyscraper form, who worked primarily in the Art Deco style.

Best-known for designing the Tribune Tower in Chicago, the architect was born on March 29, 1881, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

The Spanish painter, and illustrator, Juan Gris, is celebrated as “the third cubist”, who built upon the foundations early Cubism and steered the movement in new directions.

Born Jose Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) Gonzalez-Perez in Madrid on March 23, 1887,

The German-Bohemian painter, Anton Raphael Mengs, is acclaimed as the most important painter in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid in the third quarter of the eighteenth century.

A child prodigy in his day, Mengs was born in Aussig, Bohemia, on March 22, 1728.

Art is crucial for the growth of these children and we should make all efforts towards giving them access to it. If we're willing to have a better world tomorrow these children need to be sensitized towards what Art can
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The American artist, George Caleb Bingham, is celebrated as one of the classic artists of the early American West.

Best-known as “the Missouri Artist”, Bingham was born on March 20, 1811, in Augusta County, Virginia.