R Section
- RABEL, Daniel
- RADEMAKER, Abraham
- RAEBURN, Sir Henry
- RAFFET, Auguste
- RAGGI, Antonio
- RAGGI, Nicolas-Bernard
- RAGUENET, Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste
- RAIMONDI, Marcantonio
- RAM, Johannes de
- RAMBOUX, Johann Anton Alban
- RAMEY, Claude
- RAMIREZ, Felipe
- RAMSAY, Allan
- RANC, Jean
- RAOUX, Jean
- RAFFAELLO Sanzio
- RASTRELLI, Carlo Bartolomeo
- RATGEB, Jörg
- RAUCH, Christian Daniel
- RAVENET, Simon François
- RAVESTEYN, Hubert van
- RAYSKI, Ferdinand von
- RECCO, Giuseppe
- REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph
- REGNAULT, Henri
- REGNAULT, Jean-Baptiste
- RÉGNIER, Nicolas
- REHBENITZ, Theodor Markus
- REICHLICH, Marx
- REIJSSCHOOT, Pieter Jan van
- REINER DE HUY
- REINHART, Johann Christian
- REIXACH, Juan
- REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van RIJN
- REMPS, Domenico
- RENARD DE SAINT-ANDRÉ, Simon
- RENI, Guido
- RESCHI, Pandolfo
- RESTOUT, Jean II
- RETHEL, Alfred
- REYMERSWAELE, Marinus van
- REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua
- RIBALTA, Spanish family of painters
- RIBERA, Jusepe de
- RIBOT, Théodule-Augustin
- RICCI, Italian family of painters
- RICCIO, Il
- RICHARD, Fleury-François
- RICHIER, Ligier
- RICHTER, Johan
- RICHTER, Adrian Ludwig
- RICHTER, Ferdinand
- RIDOLFI, Carlo
- RIEDEL, August
- RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Tilman
- RIESENER, French family of artists of German origin
- RIETSCHEL, Ernest Friedrich August
- RIGAUD, Hyacinthe
- RIJCK, Pieter Cornelisz van
- RIJCKHALS, Frans
- RIJSWIJCK, Dirck van
- RILEY, John
- RIMINALDI, Orazio
- RINALDO MANTOVANO
- RING, Pieter de
- RING, tom, German family of painters and designers
- RIPA, Cesare
- RITZOS, Andreas
- RIZI, Francisco
- RIZZO, Antonio
- ROBBIA, della, Italian family of sculptors and potters
- ROBERT, Hubert
- ROBERT, Léopold
- ROBERTI, Ercole de'
- ROBERTS, David
- ROBERTS, Piercy
- ROBUSTI, Italian family of painters (Tintoretto and his children)
- ROCCA, Michele
- ROCCATAGLIATA, Nicolò
- RODE, Bernhard
- ROELAS, Juan de las
- ROESTRAETEN, Pieter Gerritsz. van
- ROGER OF HELMARSHAUSEN
- ROGERS, Randolph
- ROGHMAN, Roelandt
- ROKOTOV, Fyodor
- ROLDÁN, Pedro
- ROLLENHAGEN, Gabriel
- ROLLOS, Peter the Elder
- ROMANELLI, Giovanni Francesco
- ROMANINO, Girolamo
- ROMANO, Gian Cristoforo
- ROMBAUER, János
- ROMBOUTS, Dutch family of painters
- ROMBOUTS, Theodor
- ROMEIJN, Willem
- ROMNEY, George
- ROOS, Philipp Peter
- ROOS, Jan
- RØRBYE, Martinus
- ROSA, Salvator
- ROSLIN, Swedish-French family of painters (husband and wife)
- ROSSELLINO, Italian family of sculptors (brothers)
- ROSSELLI, Cosimo
- ROSSELLI, Francesco
- ROSSELLI, Matteo
- ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel
- ROSSI, Vincenzo de'
- ROSSI, Properzia de'
- ROSSO FIORENTINO
- ROTARI, Pietro Antonio
- ROTTENHAMMER, Hans I
- ROTTMANN, Carl
- ROUBILIAC, Louis-François
- ROUSSEAU, Théodore
- ROWLANDSON, Thomas
- ROYEN, Willem Frederik van
- RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
- RUBLYOV, Andrey
- RUCKERS, Hans the Elder
- RUDE, François
- RUNGE, Philipp Otto
- RUOPPOLO, Giovanni Battista
- RUSCONI, Camillo
- RUSH, William
- RUSSELL, John
- RUSTICI, Giovanni Francesco
- RUTHART, Carl Borromäus Andreas
- RUXTHIEL, Henri-Joseph
- RUYSCH, Rachel
- RUISDAEL (RUYSDAEL), van, Dutch family of painters
- RYCKAERT (RIJCKAERT), Flemish family of painters
- RYCKERE, Bernaert de
- RYSBRACK, Flemish family of artists, active in England