Looking for new artists

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I'm diving back into studies and plan to scope out some real deal artists to 'shadow' in order to become a better artist. So if you guys know of any super good ones, chuck 'em at me.

I do have some idea of what I'm looking for. I want to avoid people on DeviantART, same-style concept artists, or pretty much anyone working in the entertainment industry. Current artists are alright so long as they don't fall into these categories. ( I had a classmate who pointed out a bunch of good ones but I lost the list. DAMN!)

Ye olde timey artists are good. Right now I'm looking at William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Anything Romantic period or Hudson River School is super amazing. Also La Tour and Vermeer. And Rembrandt.

Buuuut those are all painters (plus some etching) and I'd love to be pointed in the direction of someone more recent whose focus is in drawing. Or whatever. Just whatever you've come across that looks good (think art museum caliber). Doesn't have to be realistic rendering with classical themes. You art history kids know what I mean. :D

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I love William-Adolphe Bouguereau!

Anywyas, in case you wanted more artists to look at, I made a list. Some of these I am big fans of, and others I stumbled across while searching. I wish I had a larger list of more recent artists to share, but I ran out of time (maybe I'll think of more later?). Have to go do some figure drawings!

Good luck on your quest to learn!

Ye olde timey artists you may or may not know:
Alexandre Cabanel
Francois Boucher
Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
Jean Honore Fragonard
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Philippe Mercier
Peter Paul Rubens
Philip Alexius de Laszlo
Anthony van Dyck
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Diego Velázquez
Jules Joseph LeFebvre
Léon-Maxime Faivre
Eugene Delacroix
J. M. W. Turner
Thomas Cole
Albert Bierstadt
John Frederick Kensett
Howard Pyle
N. C. Wyeth
Harvey Dunn
Alphonse Mucha
Charles Dana Gibson
James Montgomery Flagg
Heinrich Kley

Slightly more recent artists:

Barbara Bradley
Andrew Loomis
Greg Manchess
Mark Schultz
Susan Lyon
Scott Burdick