| ARTIST | BORN-DIED | PERIOD | SCHOOL |
| R | RABEL, Daniel | (1578-1637) | Baroque | French graphic artist (Paris) |
| | RADEMAKER, Abraham | (1676-1735) | Baroque | Dutch graphic artist |
| | RAEBURN, Sir Henry | (1756-1823) | Rococo | Scottish painter |
| | RAFFAELLO Sanzio | (1483-1520) | High Renaissance | Italian painter |
| | RAFFET, Auguste | (1804-1860) | Neoclassicism | French painter |
| | RAGGI, Antonio | (1624-1686) | Baroque | Italian sculptor (Rome) |
| | RAGGI, Nicolas-Bernard | (1790-1862) | Romanticism | Italian sculptor |
| | RAGUENET, Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste | (1715-1793) | Rococo | French painter (Paris) |
| | RAIMONDI, Marcantonio | (c. 1480-c. 1534) | High Renaissance | Italian graphic artist (Rome) |
| | RAINER OF HUY (see REINER DE HUY) | (d. c.1150) | Medieval | Flemish sculptor (Liège) |
| | RAM, Johannes de | (1648-1693) | Baroque | Dutch graphic artist (Amsterdam) |
| | RAMBOUX, Johann Anton Alban | (1790-1866) | Romanticism | German painter |
| | RAMEY, Claude | (1754-1838) | Neoclassicism | French sculptor |
| | RAMIREZ, Felipe | (doc. 1628-1631) | Baroque | Spanish painter (Toledo) |
| | RAMSAY, Allan | (1713-1784) | Rococo | Scottish painter |
| | RANC, Jean | (1674-1735) | Baroque | Flemish painter |
| | RAOUX, Jean | (1677-1734) | Rococo | French painter (Paris) |
| | RAPHAEL (see RAFFAELLO Sanzio) | (1483-1520) | High Renaissance | Italian painter |
| | RATGEB, Jörg | (c. 1480-1526) | Northern Renaissance | German painter (Swabia) |
| | RAUCH, Christian Daniel | (1777-1857) | Neoclassicism | German sculptor |
| | RAVENET, Simon François | (1706-1774) | Baroque | French graphic artist (London) |
| | RAVESTEYN, Hubert van | (1638-before 1691) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Dordrecht) |
| | RAYSKI, Ferdinand von | (1806-1890) | Romanticism | German painter |
| | RECCO, Giuseppe | (1634-1695) | Baroque | Italian painter (Naples) |
| | REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph | (1759-1840) | Neoclassicism | French painter (Paris) |
| | REGNAULT, Henri | (1843-1871) | Romanticism | French painter |
| | REGNAULT, Jean-Baptiste | (1754-1829) | Neoclassicism | French painter |
| | RÉGNIER, Nicolas | (1591-1667) | Baroque | French painter |
| | REHBENITZ, Theodor Markus | (1791-1861) | Romanticism | German painter |
| | REICHLICH, Marx | (1460-1520) | Northern Renaissance | Austrian painter |
| | REIJSSCHOOT, Pieter Jan van | (1702-1772) | Baroque | Flemish painter |
| | REINER DE HUY | (d. c.1150) | Medieval | Flemish sculptor (Liège) |
| | REINHART, Johann Christian | (1761-1847) | Romanticism | German painter |
| | REIXACH, Juan | (active) | Early Renaissance | Spanish painter (Valencia) |
| | REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn | (1606-1669) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Amsterdam) |
| | REMPS, Domenico | (c. 1620-c. 1699) | Baroque | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | REMS, Domenico (see REMPS, Domenico) | (c. 1620-c. 1699) | Baroque | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | RENARD DE SAINT-ANDRÉ, Simon | (1613-1677) | Baroque | French painter (Paris) |
| | RENI, Guido | (1575-1642) | Baroque | Italian painter (Bologna) |
| | RENIERI, Niccolò (see RÉGNIER, Nicolas) | (1591-1667) | Baroque | French painter |
| | RESTOUT, Jean II | (1692-1768) | Baroque | French painter |
| | RETHEL, Alfred | (1816-1859) | Romanticism | German graphic artist |
| | REYMERSWAELE, Marinus van | (c. 1490-c. 1567) | Mannerism | Flemish painter |
| | REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua | (1723-1792) | Rococo | English painter |
| | RIBALTA, Francisco | (1565-1628) | Baroque | Spanish painter |
| | RIBALTA, Juan | (1597-1628) | Baroque | Spanish painter (Valencia) |
| | RIBERA, Jusepe de | (1591-1652) | Baroque | Spanish painter (Italy) |
| | RIBOT, Théodule-Augustin | (1823-1891) | Realism | French painter |
| | RICCI, Marco | (1676-1729) | Baroque | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | RICCI, Sebastiano | (1659-1734) | Baroque | Italian painter (Venice) |