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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:
Albrecht Durer, portrait of Barbara Durere, the artist's mother, 1490:
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Georgio di Chirico, portrait of the artist's mother, 1911:
Egon Shiele, Mother Sleeping, 1911:
Juan Gris, portrait of the artist's mother, 1912:
Edward Hopper, Elizabeth Griffiths Smith Hopper, the artist's mother, 1916:
Salvador Dali, portrait of the artist's mother, 1920:
Norman Rockwell's Mother Tucking Children Into Bed (for which his mother Irene was the model), 1921:
Grant Wood, Woman With Plants (his mother), 1929:
Arshile Gorky, portrait of the artist's mother, 1936:
William H. Johnson, Mom Alice, 1944:
Alice Neel, My Mother, 1952:
Lucian Freud, The Painter's Mother, 1973:
Andy Warhol, silkscreen of his mother, Julia Warhola, 1974 :
David Hockney, Mum, 1985:
Daphne Todd, Last Portrait Of Mother, 2009:
David Kassan, portrait of the artist's mother, 2010:
Georgio di Chirico, portrait of the artist's mother, 1911:
Egon Shiele, Mother Sleeping, 1911:
Juan Gris, portrait of the artist's mother, 1912:
Edward Hopper, Elizabeth Griffiths Smith Hopper, the artist's mother, 1916:
Salvador Dali, portrait of the artist's mother, 1920:
Norman Rockwell's Mother Tucking Children Into Bed (for which his mother Irene was the model), 1921:
Grant Wood, Woman With Plants (his mother), 1929:
Arshile Gorky, portrait of the artist's mother, 1936:
William H. Johnson, Mom Alice, 1944:
Alice Neel, My Mother, 1952:
Lucian Freud, The Painter's Mother, 1973:
Andy Warhol, silkscreen of his mother, Julia Warhola, 1974 :
David Hockney, Mum, 1985:
Daphne Todd, Last Portrait Of Mother, 2009:
David Kassan, portrait of the artist's mother, 2010: