List of Tuberculosis Cases - Artists

Artists

• Ioannis Altamouras (1852–1878), Greek painter
• Frédéric Bartholdi (1834–1904), French sculptor, author of the Statue of Liberty
• Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), talented Russian-born, French-educated painter and diarist, died from tuberculosis at the age of 26.
• Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), English illustrator and author; a convert to Catholicism, on his deathbed he wrote a note pleading that all his "immoral drawings" should be destroyed.
• Harry Clarke (1889–1931), Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator.
• Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French Romantic painter
• Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), famous French painter, actually died of syphilis
• Boris Kustodiev (1878–1927), Russian painter and stage designer
• Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Italian modernist painter
• Robert Natus (1890–1950), Estonian architect; suffered from tuberculosos after 1948.
• William Ranney (1813–1857), 19th century American painter.
• Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), Croatian painter
• Andrei Ryabushkin (1861–1904), Russian painter
• Peter Purves Smith (1912–1949), Australian modernist artist, died during a lung operation.
• Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), English artists' model, poet and artist
• Virginia Frances Sterret (1900–1931), American artist and illustrator
• Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887–1918), Portuguese modernist painter
• José Pancetti (1902–1958), Brazilian modernist painter