25 19th century Chilean painters

Manuel Antonio Caro Olavarría was a Chilean painter and is classed among Chile's best-loved artists. The son of Victorino Caro y Cárcamo and Asunción de Olavarría y Sierpe, he was named Caro Olavarría. The first Chilean student to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Caro's body of work included portraits and scenes of everyday life, and earned him high honors and international recognition.

Álvaro Casanova Zenteno was a prominent Pintor marinista y de hechos Navales Históricos, Hombre de Estado His art is classified as realist, expressionist, classicial, and romantic.

Celia Castro was the first professional female visual artist in Chile. Her style is generally associated with Realism.

José Tomás Errázuriz Urmeneta was a Chilean landscape painter and diplomat.

Juan Francisco González Escobar is known as one of the four Great Chilean Masters and as the archetypal romantic bohemian artist of the early 20th century. He was the most prolific of the Chilean masters, leaving an estimated 4,000 works, and was also notable for being one of Chile's first modern painters. He was seen as a symbol of the new creative generation that appeared in 20th century Chile, with a style highly influenced by impressionism and local elements.

Agustina Gutiérrez Salazar was a Chilean painter and draftsman. She was the first student of the Painting Academy and the first teacher of plastic arts in her country. She obtained an important public recognition for her work as a portraitist of women of the high society of Valparaíso, according to what was reflected in the press of his time.

Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante was a Chilean painter and draftsman. His art is categorized as romanticism and realism.

Carlos Isamitt Alarcón was a Chilean painter and composer.

Onofre Jarpa Labra was a Chilean landscape painter in the Romantic style, and an essayist on various artistic topics.

Pedro Francisco Lira Rencoret was a Chilean painter and art critic, who organized exhibitions that led to the establishment of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. He is best known for his eclectic portraits of women.

Enrique Lynch del Solar was a painter of portraits, and ocean landscapes, a pioneer of the Chilean Modernist art movement. He studied painting in Paris, France with Diogène Maillart. Upon his return to Chile, he became Director of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts "Museo de Bellas Artes en Parque Forestal".

Aurora Mira Mena (1863–1939) was a Chilean painter. Together with her elder sister Magdalena, she was one of the earliest recognized female painters not only in Chile but in the whole of Latin America. She was also one of the first women to graduate from the Santiago School of Painting.

Magdalena Mira Mena (1859–1930) was a Chilean painter and sculptor. Together with her younger sister Aurora, she was one of the earliest recognized female painters not only in Chile but in the whole of Latin America. She was also one of the earliest women to study art at the Santiago School of Painting.

Pedro Reszka Moreau was a Chilean painter. He won the National Prize of Art of Chile in 1947.

Camilo Mori Serrano was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse.

Alberto Orrego Luco was a Chilean Impressionist landscape painter and diplomat.

Pascual Ortega Portales was a notable Chilean painter. His art fits into the categories of romanticism and realism.

Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Pinto was a Castilian painter, born in Italy and raised in Chile. He was active from 1902 to 1945, in Paris and in Italy.

José Manuel Ramírez Rosales was a Chilean painter who was educated in France. He specialized in landscapes and maritime scenes, often with mythological elements. Although mostly involved in various business enterprises, he is remembered as Chile's first significant artist.

Cosme San Martín Lagunas was a Chilean painter and the first Director of the "Academia de Pintura" who was born in Chile.

Miguel Antonio Smith Irisarri was a Chilean landscape painter, engraver, caricaturist and art teacher.

Thomas Jacques Somerscales was an English teacher, sailor, and landscape and marine painter. He is also considered a Chilean painter as he began his career as an artist there. Many of his landscapes evoke the region and many of his marine paintings feature notable events in Chilean naval history and have become patriotic national icons in that country.

Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña was a Chilean painter, politician and diplomat.

Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, was one of Chile's greatest painters and one of the four Great Chilean Masters, along with Pedro Lira, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma and Juan Francisco González. He was a landscape painter and left an estimated 1,000 paintings. Highlights of his work include paintings of the snow-topped mountains in France and views of Paris.

Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma, was one of Chile's best-known painters and one of the four artists known as the Great Chilean Masters. ]