World's most well-known "Mother" artwork, that of by James McNeill Whistler, painted in 1871:
above: James McNeill Whistler, Whistler's Mother 1871, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Guido Reni, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1612:
Rembrandt, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1630:
Sir Thomas Lawrence, Portrait (sketch) of Lucy Lawrence, the Artist's mother, 1797:
Alfred Rethel, portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1836:
Camille Corot, Madame Corot, the Artist's Mother, Born Marie-Francoise Oberson, 1838:
Pierre Renoir, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1860:
Paul Cezanne, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1866-67:
Mary Cassat, the Artist's Mother reading Le Figaro, 1878:
Edouard Manet, Mother in the garden at Bellevue, 1880:
Georges Seurat, Aquatint of the artist's mother, 1883:
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Countess Adele Zoe de Toulouse Lautrec, The Artist's Mother, 1883:
Vincent Van Gogh, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, October, 1888:
Paul Gauguin, Portrait of Aline Gauguin, 1890:
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1896:
Edvard Much, The Dead Mother (the artist's mother died when he was five from tuberculosis), 1899:
Franz Marc, portrait of his mother, 1902:
