Artful English Studio
Choose a painting your students will love — then build a lesson around it.
1. CEFR level
2. Language focus
Albrecht Dürer
Self-Portrait at 28
Alphonse Mucha
Gismonda
Amedeo Modigliani
Jeanne Hébuterne
Anders Zorn
Midsummer Dance
Artemisia Gentileschi
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
Aubrey Beardsley
The Peacock Skirt
August Macke
Lady in a Green Jacket
Berthe Morisot
The Cradle
Camille Corot
Ville-d'Avray
Camille Pissarro
Boulevard Montmartre at Night
Caravaggio
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Carl Larsson
Breakfast Under the Big Birch
Carl Spitzweg
The Bookworm
Caspar David Friedrich
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Claude Monet
Water Lilies
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Proserpine
Diego Velázquez
Las Meninas
Edgar Degas
The Dance Class
Édouard Manet
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Édouard Vuillard
Public Gardens
Edvard Munch
The Scream
Edwin Landseer
Dignity and Impudence
El Greco
View of Toledo
El Lissitzky
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Self-portrait in a Straw Hat
Fernand Léger
The City
Frans Hals
The Laughing Cavalier
Franz Marc
Blue Horse I
Frédéric Bazille
Family Reunion
Frederic Edwin Church
The Heart of the Andes
Frederic Remington
A Fight for the Waterhole
Gabriël Metsu
Woman Reading a Letter
George Stubbs
Whistlejacket
Georges Seurat
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Vertumnus
Gustav Klimt
The Kiss
Gustave Caillebotte
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Courbet
The Stone Breakers
Hans Holbein the Younger
The Ambassadors
Hans Memling
Portrait of a Young Man
Helen Allingham
Cottage Garden
Henri Rousseau
Tiger in a Tropical Storm
Henry Ossawa Tanner
The Banjo Lesson
Hilma af Klint
The Ten Largest, No. 3 (Youth)
Honoré Daumier
The Third-Class Carriage
Ilya Repin
Barge Haulers on the Volga
Isaac Levitan
Vladimirka
Ivan Aivazovsky
The Ninth Wave
James McNeill Whistler
Whistler's Mother
James Tissot
The Ball on Shipboard
Jan Steen
The Merry Family
Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jean-François Millet
The Gleaners
Johannes Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring
John Everett Millais
The Boyhood of Raleigh
John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Madame X
John William Waterhouse
The Lady of Shalott
Judith Leyster
Self-Portrait
Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Kazimir Malevich
Black Square
Kitagawa Utamaro
Three Beauties of the Present Day
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
Mary Cassatt
The Child's Bath
Mikhail Vrubel
The Demon Seated
Norman Garstin
The Rain it Raineth Every Day
Odilon Redon
The Cyclops
Paul Cézanne
The Basket of Apples
Paul Klee
Twittering Machine
Paul Signac
Entrance to the Harbour, Port of Saint-Tropez
Piero della Francesca
Portrait of Battista Sforza
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Piet Mondrian
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Hunters in the Snow
Pieter de Hooch
The Courtyard of a House in Delft
Rembrandt van Rijn
The Night Watch
Robert Delaunay
Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon
Rosa Bonheur
Ploughing in the Nivernais
Sofonisba Anguissola
The Chess Game
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Composition with Diagonals and Circle
Theo van Doesburg
Composition IX
Thomas Cole
The Oxbow
Thomas Eakins
The Champion Single Sculls
Utagawa Hiroshige
Plum Park in Kameido
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Interior, Strandgade 30
Vincent van Gogh
The Starry Night
Wassily Kandinsky
Composition VIII
William Blake
The Ancient of Days
William Merritt Chase
A Friendly Call
William Powell Frith
The Railway Station
Winslow Homer
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)