Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of artists who have considered the pig.
Joachim Beuckelaer, Netherlands, (c.1530-c.1573) – The Slaughtered Pig, (1563), oil on oak. Beuckelaer studied with his uncle, Pieter Aertsen (1508 – 1575), who pioneered the subjects of Flemish kitchen and market scenes.
Thomas Bewick, British, (1753-1828) was a printmaker and illustrator who revived the art of wood engraving and established it as the major printmaking and graphic art technique in Britain where it was unrivaled until the introduction of photography.
Giovanni Pietro da Birago, Italy, (fl. c.1471/4-1513) – St Anthony Abbot battling with demons, [from the Sforza Hours, f.202v], (c. 1490), tempera colors, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment. Birago was an illuminator and engraver, a leading Milanese illuminator, he was much favored by the ducal court.
Tarleton Blackwell, United States, (b. 1956) – Butcher’s Shop II (Triptych), The Hog Series LXXVIII, (1992-3), graphite, watercolor and Prismacolor on paper; Morning Tea II, the Hog Series CLIX, (ndg.), lithograph; The Greatest Show of Hogs III, Hog Series LXXVII, (1993), oil on canvas.
Jacques Blanchard, France, (1600-1638) – Odysseus forcing Circe to return his companions to their human forms, (17th cent.), sanguine (red iron-oxide) crayon on paper. Blanchard or Blanchart, was a French baroque painter best known for his small religious and mythological paintings.
Étienne Blanche, France (20th century), works include: Jour de marché à Pont-Croix. Blanche was a French painter.
Julien Le Blant, French (1851 – 1936), works include: Le marché aux cochons. Le Blant was a painter and illustrator. He is best known for his paintings and illustrations of military subjects and military history and impressionistic scenes of rural life, farming and nature.
Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, (1566-1651) – Farmhouse with the Prodigal Son, (c.1605-10), oil on canvas. Bloemaert was a painter, engraver and draughtsman, as well as a writer and teacher and excelled more as a colorist than as a draughtsman.
Stephen Blos, United States, (1955-1985), works include: Donald Hall with apple in his mouth #1 & #2. Blos was a photographer. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Hampshire College. He made his living as a photographer, and as a printer for other photographers such as Helen Levitt and Bruce Gilden, among others.
Boetius Adams Bolswert, Flemish, (1580-1633) – Sanctus Antoninus, (c. 1610-1612), engraving. Bolswert was a Netherlandish artist and engraver, active in Haarlem, Amsterdam, Brussels and Antwerp.