The Impressionists
19th Century England
Black Market Finds
Draw Me Like One of Your French... Friends?
100

While many of the famous female impressionists of the 19th and 20th centuries were born in America, they quickly fled to this country to study where the movement first emerged.

France

100
Female School of Art scholars were able to win a prize token; which consisted of a coin with this Queen's name and profile
Queen Victoria
100

This painting by Edvard Munch was stolen and recovered in 1994; only to be stolen again in 2004, but was thankfully recovered in 2006. Hopefully Oslo upgraded their security. 

The Scream

100

The one with the smile

Leonardo da Vinci

200

in one of the earliest forms of female organized empowerment, this group was founded in 1855 in order to create commercialized success among women. 

Society of Female Artist

200

on March 18th 1990, two thieves disguised themselves as police officers and stole an estimated $500 million dollars in artwork from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in this US Capital

Boston

200

The one with the giant shell

Sandro Botticelli
300

the Impressionist style of art can be deduced from the unblended bursts of color, loose brushwork, and this type of technique

plein air

300

Due to the influx of women artists flourishing during this era, many universities were creating studies specific to wealthy women; including this popular institute who admitted it's first female scholar in the 1860's. 

Royal Academy

300

The Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Egypt thought they had bested the criminal art world after recovering one of this painters last artworks "Poppy Flowers" ten years after being stolen in 1977. Only for it to later be lifted again in 2010. 

Van Gogh

300

The one with the famous eyebrows

Freda Kahlo

400

Famously known as "Les Trois Grandes Dames", these great ladies of the 19th century movement included Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond, and this sister-in-law of Monet. 

Berthe Morisot

400

The tragic drowning of this Shakespearean character has been the muse of many artists... and even some modern day bands.

Ophelia

400

Keep and eye of this Rembrandt missing masterpiece, as the reward for finding it is humble $10 million

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

400

The one with the pearl earring

Johannes Vermeer

500

While many critics argued that sculpting was men's art-- stating that "the chisel and mallet require stronger hands" -- this female sculpture was commissioned to be the royal sculptor

Mary Thornycroft

500

"Allegory of Christian Belief" and "Young Couple in a Landscape" are just two of paintings plundered by the Nazis from this Jewish art collector. 

Arthur Feldmann

500

The one with the flying shoe

jean- Honoré Fragonard