Here is an ongoing list of photographers, artists, and illustrators who feature people as the subject. You’ll find examples and links to their artwork below. These artists specialize in different styles. There are impressionists, illustrators, cartoonists, renaissance, surrealists and more.
Jon Whitcomb, American illustrator, pulp fiction, pin-up girls
Alex Alemany, painter magical realism, abstract, fantasy
Antonio Roybal, portraits, visionary abstraction, figure, religion.
Antonio Roybal, portraits, photography, visionary, figure, religion.
Frederick Lord Leighton, classical portrait art
Antonio Donghi, Italian painter of scenes of popular life
Michael Deforge, comics artist
Alexander Millar, impressionist artist
Edouard Manet, Realism to Impressionism
William Etty, British painter of nudes and still life
Jasmine Becket-Griffith, fairy, fantasy, and gothic artwork
Alex Colville, Magic Realism
El Greco, Spanish Renaissance
Bob Byerley, realistic portrayals of children in nostalgic settings
Kathryn Morris Trotter, impressionistic art influenced by fashion, interiors and travel
Abram Efimovich Arkhipov, realism, painter, realist artist
Robert Mcginnis, paperback book covers, illustrator, pulp fiction, movie posters
Giuseppe de Nittis, Salon art and Impressionism
Kelly Mckernan, imaginative realism and pop culture watercolor
Tom Lovell, pulp fiction magazine covers
Jovana Rikalo, photography, portraits, surreal
Józef Mehoffer, Polish impressionism
Henry Asencio, expressionism style
