Art and Chess by Bill Wall

Chess has been a popular subject of paintings and sculpture. Marcel Duchamp is perhaps the most well-known chess player and artist. He was a French chess master and used chess themes in many of his paintings. Henry Grob was an International Master and portrait painter.

Here is a list of known chess artists or artists who play chess.

Abbe, Albert (1889-1966)
Abrunheiro, Jose; "Empate ou xeque-mate"
Adams, Alicia; "Marriage is a game of chess" (1995)
Agnel, Hyacinth R. (1799-1871); "How a World Was Won" (1848)
Agnel, Hyacinth R. (1799-1871); "The Midnight Challenge" (1848)
Agnel, Hyacinth R. (1799-1871); "The Monkey and the Gascon Chess Knight" (1848)
Aguilar, Fortino; "Jaque" (2002)
Al Andalus; "Noblemen and their servants playing chess" (Alphonso X book)
Alexandrova, Ludmilla; "Schachspiel - Spiel der konige" (1998)
Allende Bellido, Fernando; "El Ajedrez"
Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence (1836-1912); "Egyptian Chess Players" (1879)
Alonso, Jose; "Jugador de cartas y ajedrez" (1995)
Alvarado, Olmedo; "Jaque mate a un pastor"
Alvarez, Jose; "Trofeus"
Amburn, Dale; "Chess Players #2"
Amburn, Dale; "Chess Players #4"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Chess Strategy"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Two Chess Games"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Chess"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Chess Game"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Duel"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Chess Board"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Chess Players"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Chess Move"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Chechmate"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Chessmen"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "End Game"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Expresso"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "Game of Kings"
Amen, Irving (1918-    ); "The Move"
Ancellin, Phillipe; "Les joueurs d'echecs" (1982)
Anderson, Stanley (1884-1966); "In Check: Scene At A London Eating-House" (1932) [Smithsonian American Art Museum]
Andree, Teresa; "Chess" (2002)
Anguissola, Sofonisba (1531-1625); "Artist's Sisters Playing Chess (Le giocatrici di scacci)" (1555) [Poznan, Musem Narodowe]
Antipova, Evgenia; "Boys in the Garden" (1980)
Antipova, Evgenia; "Chess Players" (1980)
Antonov, Sergey; "Chess" (2003)
Aranda, Jose Jimenez (1837-1903); "An Afternnon at Seville"
Arnin, Elsa (1888-1980)
Attina, Nino; "Giocatori di scacchi" (1990)
Aureli, Giuseppe; "Una partita difficile a scacchi"
Austen, Rudolf (1931-2003)
Avetisian, Artour; "The Game"
Avetisian, Minas (1928-1975); "Chess Players"
Avram, Adrian; "Still file with chess board"
Baines, Andrew; "Checkmate"
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "The Game" (1990) [Boston Pucker Gallery]
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Red Queen" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    );  "The Desert Game" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Italian Interlude" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Round Table" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "The Leaders" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Knights" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Being There" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Figures" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "As Time Passes" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Quite Clear"
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Near the Riverside" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Project for problems" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "The Game of War" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Marital base" (1990)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Three Kings" (1991)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Art of Self Sacrifice" (1998)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Group portrait" (1998)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Opponents" (1998)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Progonged rest" (1998)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Study after sheltering Myths A" (1999)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Auspiciuos Moon" (2001)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Consolidation" (2001)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Small battlefield" (2001)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Above and below" (2003)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "Across" (2003)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "As clear as the day" (2003)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "bishop, knight, rook" (2003)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "boards meeting" (2003)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "cavalcade" (2003)
Bak, Samuel (1933-    ); "cease fire" (2003)
Baldini, Johnny
Bandeira, Antonio (1922-1967)
Barque, Charles (1825-1883); "The Chess Game"
Barthe, Victor; "Paulo Boi and the Devil"
Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo (1708-1787)
Baughin, Lubin (1610-1663); "Nature morte avec un echiquier" (1630) [Paris, Louvre]
Baumeister, Willi (1889-1955)
Baur, Albert F. (1835-1906)
Becker, Carl (1925-1973); "Franz, Adelaide and the Bishop of Bamberg"
Beda, Francesco (1840-1900); "The Chess Game (Partita a scacchi)"
Beechey, William (1753-1839)
Bellemanns, Frans (1916-1991)
Bellido
Bercigli, Gianandrea; "La partita" (2000)
Bereny, Robert; "Woman with chess-bard"
Bertiglia, Aurelio (1891-? ); chess and checker postcards
Besser, Bernd (1946-    ); "Die Auseinandersetzung" (2003)
Bezzuoli, Giuseppe (1784-1855)
Bilinski, Roman (1897-1981); "Ettore e gli scacchi" (1967)
Bird, Herbert A.; "The Chessplayer" (1929)
Bisson, A.; "Une serieuse partie"
Blaettner, Johannes Samuel (1633-1705)
Bles, David Joseph (1821-1899); "Chess Players"
Blumberg, Ron (1908-2002); "Chess game in the park" (1958)
Boileau, Alan (1958-    ); "Chess players"
Boileau, Alan (1958-    ); "Two men playing chess"
Bois, Guy Pene du (1884-1958)
Bonassi, Jodi (1953-    ); "Chess Player in Blue" (1999)
Bonassi, Jodi (1953-    ); "players in the pictures"
Bonassi, Jodi (1953-    ); "The chess players"
Bonassi, Jodi (1953-    ); "The chess players #2"
Bordone, Paris Paschalino(1500-1571); "The Chess Players (Partita a scacchi)" (1540) [Berlin, Staatliche Preussicher Kulturbesitz]
Borges, Norah; "Ajedrez" (1922)
Borghese, Franz; "Scacchi"
Borghese, Franz; "Partita a scacchi"
Borghese, Franz; "Gli scacchi"
Borghese, Franz; "La scacchiera umana" (2004)
Borlone, Barnard; "A Game of Chess" (1906)
Bosi, Enrico; "Scacchi"
Bottrich, Annette; "Schach"
Boucher, Francois (1703-1770); "Les Echecs"
Bouilly, Louis (1716-1845); "The Chess Game"
Boulanger, Gustave (1824-1888)
Boxem, Hans; "Mat aan di Ijssel"
Bradley, Terry; "The Chess Player"
Braque, Georges (1882-1963); "La Patience" (1942)
Bray, Jan de (1627-1697)
Brecher, Samuel (1897-1982)
Brend'amour, Robert Francois Richard (1831-1915)
Bresciani, Antonio (1902-1977); "Gioco di scacchi" (1977)
Breton, Michel; "Echiquier"
Bridgman, Frederik (1847-1928); "An Interesting Game" (1881)
Brispot, Henri; "La partie d'echecs" (1909)
Briss, Sami; "La lecon d'echecs"
Briss, Sami; "la joueuse d'echecs"
Briss, Sami; "la partie au bord du village"
Briss, Sami; "la partie simultanee"
Briss, Sami; "le joueur d'echec"
Briss, Sami; "der bauer"
Brown, Lucy (1843-1894); "Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess" (1871)
Browne, Margaret (1884-1972)
Brozik, Vaclav (1851-1901); "Dagmar and Strage Ebbesen at the Chess Table"
Bruck, Lajos; "La partie d'echecs"
Brugger, Arnold; "Schachspieler" (1914)
Bruguera, Josep; "Blanques i negres"
Brunclair, Eugene (1832-1918)
Brunery, Marcel (1893-1982)
Buchbinder, Szymon (1853-1908); "Partia szachow"
Buchholz, Quint; "Chess"
Bueno, Antonio (1918-1984); "La scacchiera" (1949)
Buffet, Bernard (1928-1999)
Bunbury, Henry William (1750-1811)
Burdick, Scott; "Chess pavilion"
Butler, Roy; "Your move"
Buttafa, Fabrizio; "La partita"
Buttafa, Fabrizio; "Pedone"
Caballero, Jose (1916-1991)
Cairo, Carlos; "Il duello" (1994)
Cairo, Carlos; "Cavallo troiano" (1997)
Cairo, Carlos; "Warnung" (2000)
Califice, Pol; "Jeu d'echecs"
Campanella, Vito; "La famiglia del guerriero"
Campi, Giulio (1500-1572); "La partita a scacchi" (1550) [Torino, Museo Civico Arte Moderne]
Cantina, Giovanni; "Partita surreale a scacchi" (1993)
Carles, Martine; "La pathetique decheance des barons aveugles"
Carniolus, E.G.; "Playing Chess with Destiny"
Caro-Delvaille, Henri (1860-1943); "My wife and her sisters (ma femme et ses souers)" (1904)
Carracci, Ludovico (1555-1619); "I giocatori di scacchi" (1590)  [Berlin, Gemaldegalerie]
Carrier Belleuse, Louis Robert
Carver, Jon; "Chess Players" (1993)
Carver, Jon; "The game of chess" (1994)
Carver, Jon; "Chess board" (1994)
Carver, Jon; "Good vs. Evil" (1994)
Carver, Jon; "Endgame" (1998)
Castiglione, Giuseppe (1829-1908)
Caxton; chess woodcut (1474)
Cederstrom, Ture; "The chess players"
Chalon, Alfred Edward (1780-1860); "Lo scacco matto e vicino"
Chanoir, Jean; "Echecs"
Chazov, Vadyn; "Still life with a chess board" (2000)
Chiebowski, Stanislaw (1835-1884); "Chess Players"
Chocarne-Moreau, Paul; "Une bonne lecon"
Chossat, Jean-Luc; "Jouers d'echecs aux Halles, Paris" (1998)
Christie, Alexander (1901- ?)
Chritchlow, N.B.; "Checkmate" (1947)
Chukur, S.; "Checkmate"
Cikovsky, Nicolai (1894-1938); "Chess"
Ciucurencu, Alexandru (1903-1977)
Clark, Joseph (1834-1919); "The chess players" (1860)
Claunch, Gerald
Clauson, Randy
Coll, Inma; "El ajedrez turco" (1999)
Comte, Pierre-Charles (1823-1895)
Cook, Cory; "Time Trouble"  
Corbellini, Luigi (1901-1968)
Creifelds, Richard (1853-1939); "The Veterans" (1886)
Cremona, Girolamo da (1467-1473); "The Chess Players" (I giocatori di scacchi)
Critchlow, Michael Bernard (1904- ); "Checkmate" (1947)
Crockwell, Douglass (1904-1968)
Croset, Michel; "Echec et mat"
Cruikshank, George (1792-1878); "A Game of Chess" (1835)
Cukier, James (1900-1981); "Chess Players"
da Silva, Vieira (1908-1992); "Jaque Mate" (1949)
Dadd, Richard; "The Child's Problem"
Daini, Augusto; "Scacco matto"
Dali, Salvador (1904-1989)
Damenopfer; Chess pieces
Danhauser, Joseph (1805-1845)
Daniels, William (1813-1880); "Chess Players"
Danner, Carole Ann (1955-    ); "Chess Piece" (2006)
Daumier, Honore (1808-1879); "The Chess Player" (1865) [Paris, Musee du Petit Palais]
Daumier, Honore (1808-1879); "Les saltimbanques au repose" (1865)
De Cornelis, Man; "The Chess Players" (1670)
De Gennaro, Luigi; "Scacco matto alla signora"
De Lara Millares, Juan; "Estudiando ajedrez" (2002)
De Lara Millares, Juan; "La habitacion del ocio"
De Marchi, Agostino; "Stallo del cooro ligneo" (1470)
De Moor, Karel
De Oliveira, Hermelindo; "Xadrez" (1996)
de Pizan, Christine (1364-1430); "Ulysse jouant aux echecs" published in Epitre d'Orthea
De Pietri, Alberto; "Conclusione di una partita a scacchi"
De Siano, Ralph; "Checkmate"
De Vries, Anneke; "Chess piece"
Debras, Louis (1808-1899)
Del Duca, Claudio; "Partita con gli dei" (1993)
Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863); "Arabs Playing chess" (1847) [Edinburgh, National Gallery]
Demenchenko, Sergey; "The queen" (1989)
Dent, Rupert; "Checkmate pugs"
Depero, Fortunato (1892-1960); "Buschus" (1937)
Desperet; "Louis Philippe against the Republic"
Deutsch, Ludwig (1855-1935); "The Chess Game" (1896)
DeVilbiss; "Morphy vs. Lowenthal"
Diehl, Bernd; "Chess to the Lady"
Diehl, Bernd; "Happy Islands"
Diehl, Bernd; "Pandora's box"
Diehl, Bernd; "3rd October Berlin"
Digeon, Dominique (1959-    ); "Alekim Bogolgabov" (1998)
Doering, Adam Lude (1925-    ); "Schach" (2002)
Dominguez, Manuel; "Ajedrez"
Dominguez Perez, Fiz; "Jaque mate"
Dore, Gustav
Douillet-Chevoleau, Raymond; "Checkmate"
Dovaston, Margaret (1884-1955)
Doyle, John; "A Game At Chess: Lord Grey Playing William IV" (1832)
Draper, William (1912-2003)
Drewes, Werner (1899-1985)
Dring, Dennis William (1904-1990); "Off Watch" (1943)
Duboy, M; "Nachtragliche Kritik" (1890)
Duchamp, Gaston Emile (1875-1963) (Jacques Villon); "La partie d'echecs" (1904)
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968); "La Partie d'echecs" (1910) [Philadelphia, Musuem of Art]
Duchamp, Marcel; "Portrait of Chess Players (Portrait de joueurs d'echecs)" (1911) [Philadelphia, Musuem of Art]
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968); "Study for Chess Players" (1911) [New York, Guggenheim Museum]
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968); "Joueurs d'echecs" (1911)
Duchamp, Marcel; "King and Queen surrounded by Swift Nudes" (1912)
Ducruet
Duffield, William (1816-1863)
Dulac, Edmund (1882-195)
Duncan, Grant (1885-1978); "Nature morte avec un Matisse" (1971)
Dunlop, Brian; "Chess Players" (2003)
Duran Quintana, Marta; "La partida d'escacs" (2003)
Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916); "The Chess Players" (1876) [New York, Metropolitan Art Museum"
Eberl, Frantisek (1887-1962)
Edridge, Henry; "Chess Player" (1810)
Elliot, Charles Loring (1812-1868)
Ender, Eduard (1824-1883)
Epstein, Jehudo (1870-1946); "Jews playing chess" (1892)
Erdmann, Otto (1834-1905)
Ernst, Max (1891-1976)
Ernst, Rudolph (1854-1932); "A Game of Chess"
Escher, Maurits Cornelis (1898-1972)
Esmein, Jeanne; "Hommage a Marcel Duchamp" (1986)
Esparbes, Jean (1899-1968)
Evans, Ingrid; "Knight Moves"  
Evans, Merlyn (1910-1973); "The Chess Players" (1951) [London, Tate Gallery]
Eworth, Hans (1520-1574); "Windsor family play chess" (1568)
Factor, Ian (1969-    ); "The chess game" (2003)
Fagin, Imelda (1949-    ); Checkmate (2008)
Falco, Joaquim (1958- ); "Rei amb negre presoner" (2001)
Franham, Shelly; "Chess"
Faven, Antti (1882-1948); "Chess"
Fernandez Ramos, Soledad; "Manos sobre blanco y negro" (2004)
Ferroni, Riccardo (1934-2000)
Feyerabend, Hans; "Chess figures - castle, king, horse (triptych)" (1999)
Fichel, Benjamin Eugene (1826-1895); "Two men playing chess" (1860)
Fichel, Benjamin Eugene (1826-1895); "The chess game" (1881)
Fichel, Benjamin Eugene (1826-1895);  "The chess game #2" (1882)
Fichel, Benjamin Eugene (1826-1895);  "The chess players"
Fiedler, Otto (1891-1962)
Filatov, Dmitry; "Chess" (2004)
Filigheddu, Mauro; "Torneo di scacchi"
Filla, Emile (1882-1953)
Firdawsi (935-1026); "Tahmuras Defeats the Divs"
Fisher, Samuel Melton (1860-1939); "The Chess Players" (1903)
Flagg, George Whiting (1816-1897)
Flaxman, Mary Ann (1768-1833)
Florez Zuleta, Dorian; "jaque" (2001)
Florianni, Oscar; "Xadrez a beira do rio" (2001)
Fluggen, Gisbert (1811-1859)
Foehe, Rolf; "Het Oog" (2002)
Foehe, Rolf; "Schaak" (2003)
Foehe, Rolf; "Levensboom" (2005)
Forster Bueno, Manuel; "Concertino per scacchi" (1998)
Foster, Graham; "The chess player"
Fox, Talbert
Fragonard,Theophile (1806-1876)
Frampton, Edward Reginald; "Miranda e Fernando giocano a scacchi"
Francesco di Giorgio Martini; "Giocatori di Scacchi" (1500)
Frangiamore, Salvatore; "Giocatori di Scacchi" (1912)
Frangiamore, Salvatore; "Partita a scacchi"
Franham
Fratta, Marina; "Caissa"
Fratta, Marina; "Pretesto per un ritratto"
Frederick, Judd (1861-1940); "Chess Players" (1891)
Frere, Pierre Edouard (1819-1886)
Fresquet, Josep; "Salutacio final"
Fric, Damijan; "Der fall"
Fric, Damijan; "Der spieler"
Fric, Damijan; "Schach"
Friday, Will; "The Wizard King", "The Royal Knight", "Ruthless Dragon"
Fry, W.T.; "Les Echecs Amoureux" (15th Century)
Fuller, Dan; "The Chess Players"
Funk, Peter; "Schachfiguren" (2000)
Funk, Peter; "Schachfiguren mit apfel" (2001)
Funk, Peter; "Schachbrett in der nebelschlucht"
Furniss, Harry; "The Knights and Kings of Chess" (1885)  Punch
Gaisser, Jakob (1825-1899); "Musketiere beim Schachspiel"
Gaisser, Jakob (1825-1899); "Une Table de Jeu Improvisee" (1880)
Gallerati, Alberto; "Ritratto di donna con torri"
Gamboa, Consuela; "Chess"
Garinei, Giovanni (1846-?); "Gioco de scacchi"
Gelici, Andrea (1956-    ); "Checkmate"
Gennero
Gerhard, Adolf (1910-1975)
Gerolamo, Induno (1825-1890); "A Game of Chess" (1881)
Gerome, Jean-Leon (1824-1904); "Arnauts playing chess" (1859) [London, Wallace Collection]
Gerome, Jean-Leon (1824-1904); "The Chess Players" (1898) [Wesleyan University]
Gerome, Jean-Leon (1824-1904); "Almees jouant aux echecs" (1870) [London, Wallace Collection]
Gibson, Charles Dana; "The Greatest Game in the World" (1903)
Gils, Clifford; "Picasso Knight"
Giola, Frank (1900-?)
Giorgio, Francesco di
Girardot, Ernest Gustave (1831-1911)
Gnedich, Pyotr; "The death of Ivan the Terrible"
Gonin, Francesco; "Famiglia fiamminga"
Gonzales, Juan Antonio (1842-1914)
Good, Thomas Sword (1789-1872)
Goodenow, Earle (1813-?)
Gorin, Irvin (1952-    ); "Game of Chess" (2001)
Gorin, Irvin (1952-    ); "Before game" (1997)
Gorin, Irvin (1952-    ); "Game" (1998)
Gorin, Irvin (1952-    ); "Chess Player" (1999)
Grant, Duncan (1885-1978); "Still Life" (1971)
Gray, Charles (1808-1892)
Green, Charles (1840-1898); "A Game of Chess" (1874) [John Noot Galleries]
Gris, Juan (1887-1927); "The Chessboard (El tablero de ajedrez)" (1917) [New York, Mordern Art Museum]
Grob, Henry
Gropper, Klaus; "Schachspieler" (2001)
Gropper, William (1897-1977)
Gualtieri, Fernando; "Gioco di scacchi" (1972)
Gualtieri, Fernando; "Scacchi da teatro" (2000)
Guardassoni, Alessandro (1819-1888); "Autoritratto" (1870)  [Bologna, Fondazione Gualandi]
Guerreiro, Miguel; "Ajedrez I" (2004)
Guillaume
Guiron
Gutauskas, Simonas; "Chess Players" (2001)
Hallstrom, Staffan (1914-1976)
Halonen, Keith; "Square One" (1996)
Halonen, Keith; "Concentration" (1993)
Halonen, Keith; "Saturday in Morro Bay" (1997)
Halonen, Keith; "Pope's little two-mover" (1996)
Halonen, Keith; "Pope's big two-mover" (1996)
Hamidouche, Layachi (1947-    ); "Le chemin des clones"
Hamidouche, Layachi; "Couseuse a l'echiquier"
Hamidouche, Layachi; "Tranparence" (1988)
Hamidouche, Layachi; "Les joueurs d'echecs"
Hamilton, James (1819-1878); "A Game of Chess" 
Hamza, Joseph (1850-1927); "The Chess Players"
Hanseclever, Johan Peter; "Chess Players" (1861)
Hardy, Frederick; "Checkmate" (1872)
Harman, Lauren; "The chess player"
Harper, Rosie; "Jeopardy"
Hasenclever,Johann Peter (1810-1853); "The Checkmate!" (1880)
Haupt, Gisela; "Schach dem Konig"
Hausle, Martin (1903-1966); "Schachspieler" 
Hayden, Henry (1883-1970); "Still life with ace of clubs and chess pieces" (1919)
Haynes, William (1819- ?)
Haynes-Williams, John (1836-1908)
Heckel, Erich (1883-1970)
Herpfer, Carl (1836-1897); "The chess players" (1887)
Herzog, Linda; "Draw" (2005)
Heyden, Jacob van der (1573-1645)
Hillemacher, Eugene Ernest (1818-1887)
Hofmann, Robert (1889-1987)
Hogfeldt, Robert (1894-1998)
Hollaender, Alphons; "Paar beim schach" (1862)
Holston, Joseph; "Make your move"
Holston, Joseph (1944-    ); "checkmate" (2003)
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910)
Hope, Laurence (1929- ?)
Horsley, John Calcott (1817-1903); "Checkmate next move" (1862)
Horvat, Milan; "Chess pieces" (2001)
Horvath, Werner; "Schach" (1977)
Houghton, Arthur Boyd (1836-1875); "The brother and sister of the artist playing chess"
Howard, Wolf; "Being on the dole is like playing chess with Hitler"
Hoy, Jill; "Chess game"
Hu, Santos; "Bodegon de ajedrez" (2004)
Hubert, Jean (1721-1786); "Voltaire playing chess" (1775)
Hudon, Normand (1929-1997)
Hughes, Patrick
Hummel, Eugen (1812-?)
Hummel, Johann Erdmann (1769-1852); "Die Schachpartie in Palais Voss" (1818)
Humphrey, G.; "A Check" (1825)
Humphrey, Ozias (1742-1810)
Husty, Karin; "The King"
Husty, Karin; "The Queen"
Husty, Karin; "Checkmate"
Hyde, John (1846-1927); "Mate in one move" (1871)
Iglehart, Elizabeth; "the only way to win"
Illustrated London News; "Chess Celebrities" (1855)
Induno, Gerolamo (1825-1890); "La Partita a Scacchi" (1881)  [Milan, Galleria d'Arte Moderna]
Ingles, Josep; "Dubtes"
Irving, John (1826-1877); "The end of the game" (1876)
Isart, Anna; "Del escacs a l'eternitat"
Isastia, Mariella; "Vinti" (1991)
Isastia, Mariella; "Infinito" (1991)
Isastia, Mariella; "Improvviso" (1999)
Isastia, Mariella; "Approdo" (2004)
Isastia, Mariella; "Inquietudine" (2004)
Ishinan; "Kishsh Malik (Checkmate)" (1998)
Jacklin, Bill; "The chess players" (1986)
Jensen, Jan; "Endless chess"
Jespers, Floris (1889-1965)
Jimenez, Jonathan; "Ajedrez" (2001)
Jindrich, Styrsky (1899-1942); "Paysage d'echecs" (1925)
Johannot, Alfred (1800-1837)
Johansson, Ragnar; "Samspel" (1982)
Johanson de Terry, Paloma; "Figurines de ajedrez"
Joyce, Ena; "Tea after Chess"
Juan de Carrion
Jully, Denis; "Checkmate"
Jung, Moriz; "Wiener cafe Die Schachspieler" (1911)
Kalinovsky, Marina; "Chess players"
Kandinsky, Vassily; "Composizione sul gioco degli scacchi"
Kandinsky, Vassily (1866-1944); "Schach-Theorie" (1937)
Kandl, Lukas; "Echec et mat" (2003)
Kate, Herman Frederik (1822-1891)
Katorgin, Aleck; "Chess #1" (2002)
Katorgin, Aleck; "Chess #2"
Katzenstein, Louis (1822-1907)
Kelly, Leon (1901-1982)
Kelly, Maureen; "Knight on the Rim"
Kessel, Ferdinand van (1648-1696)
Kilburne, George (1839-1924); "A Game of Chess #1"
Kilburne, George (1839-1924); "A Game of Chess #2"
Kimpe, Reimond; "De zusjes" (1960)
Kirchner, Albert Emil (1814-1885)
Kirchner, Otto (1887-1960)
Klee, Paul (1879-1940); "Chess" (1931)
Klee, Paul (1879-1940); "Great Chess Chess" (1931) [Zurich, Kunstmuseum]
Klimsch, Eugen Johann Georg (1839-1896)
Knoop, August; "Edelmann beim schach"
Koekkoek, Barend Cornelis (1803-1862)
Kokhal, V.V.; "Still Life with Chess" (1992)
Kolossi, Ferenc; "Die schachpartie" (1902)
Konecny, Bohumil (1918-1990)
Kopman, Benjamin (1887-1965)
Koppay, Joseph; "In Gedanken"
Koselitz, Rudolf (1861-1948); "Schachspieler" (1910)
Kostabi, Mark; "The Final Sacrifice" (1993)
Kostabi, Mark; "Third World Order" (1991)
Kostabi, Mark; "Concentration" (1994)
Kostabi, Mark; "White to move and draw" (1995)
Kostabi, Mark; "Grandmasters at work" (1995)
Kostabi, Mark; "Alekhine defense" (1995)
Kostabi, Mark; "Zugzwang" (1995)
Kostabi, Mark; "Keeping it up" (1999)
Kostabi, Mark; "Slow homecoming" (2001)
Kotin, Albert (1907-1980); "Chess player"
Kovrigo, Sergey; "Ratsherren beim schach"
Kratzer, Hans; "Game in nothing" (1926)
Kratzer, Karl von (1827-1903)
Kraus, Friedrich (1826-1894)
Krikhatzsky, Vladimir; "Boys Playing Chess"
Kruger; "On an old Polish Estate" (1872)
Kubinyi, Adrienn; "Chess in the bath" (2005)
Kubinyi, Adrienn; "Chess" (2005)
Kuder, Kevin; "The Chess Players" (2001)
Kuder, Kevin; "The King" (2001)
Kulakov, Aleksey; "Duell" (2005)
Kunz, Jean-Claude; "Echec a la Dame" (2001)
Kurasov, Georgy (1958-    ); "Chess"
Kush, Vladimir; "Chess"
Lacy, Tom; "St. Petersburg chess players"
Landini, Andrea; "Indecisione"
Landwehr, Curt (1920-1988)
Lange, Fridrich (1909-1952)
Laquay, Willelm Joseph (1738-1798); "Die Schachspieler" (1780)
Laska, John; "Tournament at Recess"
Lassen, Hans; "Drei junge herren beim schach" (1885)
Lassen, Hans; "Drei herran beim schach" (1900)
Lassen, Hans; "Drei schachspieler mit langen tonpfeifen" (1901)
Lassen, Hans; "Vier offiziere beim spiel" (1929)
Lavery, John (1856-1941); "The Chess Players" (1929) [London, Tate Gallery]
Lawrence, Jacob (1917-2000)
Leidecker, Eric; "Chess"
Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)
Leleux, Armand-Alexandre (1818-1885)
Lenci, Anibal Lopez (1966-    ); "Alexandra Kosteniuk" (2008)
Lenhart, Franz (1898-1992)
Leroux, Etienne; "Esquisse pour Les echecs" (1998)
Leroux, Etienne; "Les echecs"
Lesrel, Adolphe (1839-1921); "An Interesting Game" (1898)
Lesrel, Adolphe (1839-1921); "The Chess Players" (1910)
Levi, Dorit (1952-    ); "Chess Players"
Lewis, John Frederick (1805-1876)
Leyden, Lucas van (1494-1533); "The Game of Chess" (1508)
Liepke, Malcom; "Chess Players"
Lindner, Richard (1901-1978)
Linton, Jay (1904-1960)
Lomovtzev, Konstantin; "The Queen"
Loo, van
Lopez de Silanes, Eugenio; "Ajedrez"
Louis, Robert Carrier Belleuse (1848-1913); "Jouers d'echecs"
Louise de Savoie
Loyeax, Chalres Antoine Joseph (1823-1898)
Ludovico, Carracci (1555-16190; "The Game of Chess" (1590)
Lyamkin, Alexander; "The end" (2005)
Mackay, W; "Howard Staunton" (1883)
Maclise, Daniel (1806-1870)
Madia, Anna; "Butterfly"
Madia, Anna; "Gli scacci"
Maes, Nicolaes (1634-1693)
Maestra, Salvador; Comenca la batalla"
Magritte, Rene (1898-1967); "Echecs et Mat" (1926)
Mainds, Allan; "A lesson in chess" (1931)  [Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery]
Makart, Hans (1840-1884)
Maldarelli, Salvatore; "Partita a scacchi" (1897)
Makovsky, Konstantin (1839-1915); "The death of Ivan the Terrible"
Man, Cornelius de (1621-1706); "The Chess Players" (1670) [Budapest, Szepmuveszeti Muzeum]
Mander, Karel van (1548-1906); "The Chess Picture" (1604)
Marcoussis, Louis (1883-1941)
Margulies, Joseph; "At a Paris Chess Club"
Markin, Andrew; "Chess Game" (2003)
Markous, L. Casimir; "Still life with chess board" (1912) [Paris, Modern Art National Museum]
Mainds, Allan (1881-1945)
Marta, L; "Costumi della festa de S. Maesta" (1854)
Marlet, Jean-Henri (1771-1847); "The Staunton - Saint-Amant Match" (1843)
Martin, Barry
Martin, Fritz (1809-1895)
Martins de Barros, Andre; "Mat" (1985)
Mason, Frank Herbert (1921-    ); "Chess Game"
Massaioli, Andrea; "Scacchi" (1987)
Massarotti, Raffaele; "Board of the back of the painting" (1950)
Matar, Joseph; "Chess players" (1994)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); "La famille du peintre" (1911)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); "Femme a cote d'un echiquier" (1928)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); "Odalisques" (1928)
Matta, Roberto (1912-2002); "Giocatori de scacchi" (1954)
May, Edward (1824-1887); "Lady Howe mating Benjamin Franklin" 
McCall, Brian
McCracken, Ken; "Chess Queen" (2004)
McEwen, Walter; "The Chess Players" (1900)
McIntosh, Mimi; "Passed Pawn", "Doubled on the Seventh", "Knight Out"
McIntosh, Mimi; "Fool's Mate"
Mckee, David; "Elmer and Wilbur play chess"
Mead, Dorothy (1928-1975); "Chessboard" (1958)  [London, Tate Gallery]
Meert, Joseph (1905-1990); "Chess piece" (1945)
Megert, Rudolf; "Surrealistic chess game" (1979)
Meissonier, Jean-Louis-Ernest (1815-1891); "The Chess Players" (1856)
Meissonier, Jean-Louis-Ernest (1815-1891); "The Chess Players #2" (1863)
Meissonier, Jean-Louis-Ernest (1815-1891); "The Chess Players #3"
Meitner, Eric
Melton Fischer, Samuel; "Chess Player"
Melvin, Patricia; "Tad, Playing Chess" (2005)
Menzel, Adolph (1815-1905); "A Game of Chess" (1836) [Hannover, Landesmuseum]
Messier, Emmanuelle; "Echec"
Metsu, Gabriel (1629-1667)
Metzinger, Jean (1883-1956); "Le Soldat a la partie d'echecs" (Soldier at a game of Chess) (1916) [Chicago, University Museum of Art]
Micarelli, Clement; "The chess players"
Middleton, Thomas; "A Game At Chess" (1624)
Mielich, Hans; "Albert Duc de baviere avec son epouse" (1552)
Mieris the Elder, Frans van (1635-1681)
Mirocznyk, Gabriel (1959- ); "Ajedrez #1" (1998)
Mirocznyk, Gabriel; "Ajedrez #2" (1998)
Mirocznyk, Gabriel; "Ajedrez #3" (2000)
Mirocznyk, Gabriel; "Ajedrez #4" (2000)
Mirocznyk, Gabriel; "Ajedrez #5" (2003)
Mizrahi, Isaac; "Checkmate" (1987)
Moeller, Louis (1855-1930); "Cronies"
Moeller, Otto (1883-1964); "Joueurs d'echecs" (1922)
Molenauer, Jan Miense (1610-1668)
Moller, Hans (1905-2000)
Moor, Carel de (1656-1738)
Moore, William J. (1817-1909)
Mopp, Maximilian (1885-1954); "Chess with Emanuel Lasker" (1942)
Mor, Anthonis (1519-1576); "von Sachsen playing chess with a Spanish nobleman" (1549)
Morandi, Anna; "Evasioni"
Morandi, Anna; "Cavallo di Volterra"
Moreau, Jean-Michel (1741-1814)
Morales, Antonio; "Ajedrez 1982" (2004)
Morant, Keith; "Staragem I"
Morant, Keith; "Staragem II"
Moreau (1843-1946); "Partie d'echecs"
Moritz, Daniel; "Lavater and Lessing visit Moses Mendelssohn" (1856)
Moritz, Daniel; "The kindling of the Hanukkah lights" (1880)
Mors
Morton, Davis; "Endgame" (1992)
Moser, Branka; "Ohne titel" (2004)
Mouly, Marcel; "Checkmate"
Mouly, Marcel; "Joueurs d'echecs #1"
Mouly, Marcel; "Joueurs de'echecs #2" (1973
Mouly, Marcel; "Grande table a jeux"
Mouly, Marcel; "Guitare et echiquier"
Mouly, Marcel; "Table aux jeux" (2000)
Mowbray, Henry (1858-1928); "A Game of Chess"
Moynihan, Rodrigo (1910-1990)
Muelich, Hans (1515-1573); "Albert, Duc de Baviere affronte son epouse aux echecs" (1552)
Mueller, William James (1812-1845)
Muhlig, Meno (1823-1873)
Muhr, Julius (1819-1865)
Munoz-Degrain, Antonio (1840-1924)
Munt, Descals; "Escac i mat"
Murphy, Bill; "Chess game"
Mussini, Luigi (1813-1888); "A Chess match at the Court of Spain (Il Puttino alla corte del Re di Spagne)" (1883)
Naumann, Carl-Georg (1827-1902)
Nay, Ernst (1902-1968)
Neal, David (1838-1915); "The Sultan Saladin and his sister Sittah" (1892)
Neff, Edith (1943-1995)
Nelson, Leonard (1912-1993)
Neubert, Willi (1920-   ); Schachspieler
Newman, S; "Checkmate"
Niesiolowski, Tymon (1882-1965)
Nisar, Ron; "One Man Chess Game"
Nista, Gabriel; "Jague mate" (1999)
Nista, Gabriel; "El eterno juego de vivir" (2000)
Nogaevskaya, E.; "Composition with chess"
Noibert, Willy; "Chess player"
Northcote, James (1746-1831)
Nouy, Jean (1842-1923)
Novi, Giuseppe; "Frammenti di verita" (2003)
Ocampo, Octavio; "Jague Mate"
Ociepka, Teofil (1891-1978)
Olis, Jan (1610-1676)
Ollier-Lopez, Betty (1960-    ); "La Simultanee" (2006)
Olmedo, Cristobal; "Rey blanco gana" (2004)
Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel (1800-1882); "Moses Mendelssohn discutant avec Gotthold Ephraim Lessing" (1860)
Oppenheimer, Maximilian (1885-1954); "Die Schachpartie"
Orchardson, William Quiller (1832-1910); "Mrs. Charles Moxom" (1875)
Ortega, Jose; "Chess"
Osborne Co,; "Old Heads Are Best" (1900)
Osternig, Lou; "Chess"
Ovchinnikov, Vladimir; "Triptych: Chess End-game" (1999)
Ovchinnikov, Vladimir; "Silver Chess" (2002)
Padovanino (1588-1648); "Mars jouant aux echecs avec Venus" (1630)
Palmer, Grace; "Caracal plays chess with Ethiopian wolf"
Papa, Vincenzo; "Scacco matto"
Parker, Norman; "A Game of Chess"
Partridge, John (1790-1872)
Pascutti, Antonio (1832-1892)
Paton, Joseph Noel (1821-1901)
Paul, Eugene (1895-1975)
Paul, Rene-Georges-Hermann (1864-1945); "Les joueuses d'echecs"
Pavelic, Myfanwy; "Double Reflection" (1976)
Payen, Glenn (1962- ); "A very, very friendly game of chess" (2004)
Peczely, Antal (1881-1944); "Arabs playing chess"
Peel, Belinda; "Always to" (2005)
Pegram, Alfred Henry; "Fool's Mate!" (1896)
Pelaez, Angeles; "Preparando la partida"
Pelaez, Angeles; "Fuera de juego" (2004)
Pella, Filippo (1886- ?); "Partita a scacchi" (1925)
Penusliski, Ilija (1947-    ); "Capa Said it was a Draw!"
Penusliski, Ilija (1947-    ); "Self Portrait With a Chess Board"
Perigois, Nicolas; "Les joueurs d'echecs" (2004)
Perrot, Franck; "Jouers d'echecs" (2001)
Petzl, Joseph (1803-1871)
Pezzotti, Diego; "Scacchi" (2002)
Philips, Charles (1708-1747)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)
Picou, Henri Pierre (1824-1895)
Pinggera, Heinz (1900-?)
Piotrkowsky, Betina; "Chess series" (2003)
Pla, David; "Sense nom"
Plante, Isabelle; "Echecs et Mat"
Plenkner, Michaela; "Laufer" (2002)
Plenkner, Michaela; "Bauern bunt" (2002)
Plenkner, Michaela; "Turme" (2002)
Plenkner, Michaela; "Bauern" (2002)
Plenkner, Michaela; "Schachfiguren" (2002)
Plenkner, Michaela; "Turm/Springer" (2002)
Pobes Cots, Eduard de; "Sense titol"
Pomi, Alessandro (1890-1970); "La Partita a scacchi"
Poor, Henry (1888-1970); "The chess game" (1939)
Portielje, Gerard (1856-1929); "Avec le jeu d'echecs"
Pourbus de Oudere, Frans (1545-1581)
Poyser, Victoria; "The Bishop and the Queen" 
Prahl, Hildur Nilsen (1855-1940); "Sjakk matt i 3 trekk (check mate in 3 moves)" (1885)
Prieschenfried, Heinrich Alosie; "Beim Schachspiel" (1902)
Probst, Carl (1854-1924); "The Chess Match" (1902)
Prokopljevic, Jovan; "The Little Man"
Pronaszko, Zbigniew (1885-1958)
Pujol, Ernest; "Campionat d'escacs"
Puni, Ivan (1894-1956)
Raeburn, Henry (1756-1823)
Raimondi, R.; "Giocando a scacchi con il cardinale"
Randall, Carl; "Chess" (1994)
Rasera, Pierre; "Lampe a petrole et jeu d'echecs"
Rasera, Pierre; "Jeu d'echecs, bilboquet lampe pideon"
Rasera, Pierre; "Je d'echecs, lampe et chateau de cartes"
Rasera, Pierre; "Lilas, carafe et jeu d'echecs"
Rasera, Pierre; "Pallas, lahire et caisa"
Rauch, Georg; "Chess players"
Rauch, Georg; "Chess players at the cafe"
Raunacher, Johann Baptist (1705-1757); "Eine Schachpartie" (1755)
Ray, Man (1890-1977)
Rayen
Redaut de Mont
Reid, Robert (1920-1998)
Relat, Jaume; "Coronacio"
Rembrandt
Renaud, Jean; "Echec aux fous" (1980)
Renner, Ilse; "Madchen mit schachfigur"
Retzsch, Moritz August (1779-1857); "Man vs Mephistopheles"
Richard, Fleury-Francois (1777-1852)
Richier, Marc; "Les mois - Fevrier, reflexion"
Richier, Marc; "Les mois - Auot, reflexion"
Richier, Marc; "Les mois - Novembre, agressivite"
Richter, Christian (1587-1661); "Johann Friedrich der Grossmutge" (1650)
Rigo, Arrigo del (1908-1932)
Ripstein, Jacqueline; "Cosmic chess game"
Roberts, William (1895-1980)
Rodriguez, Luis Jacobo Alvarez (1930-1977); "Jaque mate" (1975)
Rodriguez, Manuel; "Chess players"
Roger, Suzanne (1899-1986)
Rogge, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm (1829-1908)
Rogge, Hendrik Cornelius (1831-1905)
Romano, Daniela; "Abete di Natale"
Ronner-Knip, Henriette (1821-1909)
Roos, Celine
Roosevelt, Jose; "Study for chess game"
Roosevelt, Jose; "The chessboard"
Roosevelt, Jose; "Chess game"
Rorbye, Martinius Christian W. (1803-1848); "Orientals playing chess in front of a Cafe" (1845)
Rosatti, Giulio (1858-1917); "The Chess Players (Giocatori di scacchi)"
Rosenbaum, Anthony (    -1888); "Group of Chess Players" (1880)
Rothwell, Elaine B.; "Pawn Pun"
Rothwell, E.B.; "Drawn Game"
Rothwell, E.B.; "Game of the Century"
Rothwell, E.B.; "White's Greens"
Rothwell, E.B.; "Black's Blues"
Rothwell, E.B.; "Checkmate"
Rothwell, E.B.; "King Pin"
Rothwell, E.B.; "B-Q3"
Rothwell, E.B.; "The Roockery"
Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827); "The Chess Players"
Roybet, Ferdinand (1840-1920); "Musketeers playing chess in a tavern" (1991) [Tokyo, National Museum of Art]
Rozot, Isabelle; "Checkmate" (2004)
Rozot, Isabelle; "Starfish" (2004)
Rudin, Jerome; "Echecs"
Rynecki, Moshe (1881-1943); "Chess Table" (1935)
Rynecki, Moshe (1881-1943); "Chess Players" (1935)
Sadler, Walter; "The chess game" (1882)
Sadler, Walter; "Mated"
Sadler, Walter; "Parson and Squire"
Sage, Kay (1898-1963)
Sala, Emilio (1911-1975)
Sales, Francisco; "Tablero y caballo" (1974)
Sanjuan, Chelin; "Ajedrez"
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925); "The Chess Game" (1907) [New York, Harvard Club]
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925); "Dolce far niente" (1907) [Brooklyn Museum of Art]
Savides, Nick; "Chess players" (1988)
Savtchenko, Serhiy (1972-    ); "chess and chairs" (2005)
Scheeres, Hendricus Johannes (1829-1864)
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918)
Schipkov, Boris; "Petrov's Defense.  Red Knight" (2001)
Schleicher, Carl; "Monks playing chess"
Schonfeld, Ludwig (1882-?)
Schroder, Albert; "La partita a scacchi"
Schwartz, Henry (1927-    ); "The Chess Players" (1958)
Schwartze, Teresa; "La partita a scacchi" (1852)
Schwarz, Viatchelslav (1838-1869); "Scene from the domestic life of the tsar" (1865) [St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum]
Schulz-Brieson, Eduard (1831-1891)
Schutz, Johann Wilhelm (1814-1878)
Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948); "Portrait of Dr. George Ainslie Johnston"
Sebba, Siegfried (1897-1975)
Seidman, Katha; "Chess Game"
Selenus, Gustavus (1579-1666); "Das Schach-oder Konig-spiel" (1616)
Semenovitch, Semiatchkin; "Game of Chess" (1970)
Semushin, Alexander (1952-    ); "Chess Players" (1992)
Sen, Abani (1905-1972); "Chess Players
Serra, Luigi (1846-1888); "Annibale Bentivolglio jouant aux echecs" (1870)
Serra Sangra, Josep; "Campio"
Serrao, Roberto; "Senza titolo" (1992)
Setterberg, Carl (1897-1983)
Sewell, Krista; "Check mate"
Sgarra, Robert (1959-    ); "La Partie d'echecs" (2000)
Shahal, Hagit; "The chess box" (2003)
Sheadu, Garry; "Checkmate"
Shin, Yun-bok; "Chess"
Shuback, Jeremy; "The Game" (2004)
Shvarts, V.; "The Tzar Playing Chess"
Shvelidze, Bezhan (1929); "Time trouble; chess play"
Sickert, Walter
Silva, Maria-Elena (1908-1992)
Silvestre, Xavier; "Checkmate" (1985)
Simitierre, Pierre Eugene du (1736-1784)
Singier, Gustave (1909-1984)
Singleton, Henry (1766-1839)
Simonetti, Amedeo; "Giocatori di scacchi"
Skoko, John; "Tilt" (2002)
Skoko, John; "Your move" (2003)
Skopin, Vadim; "Static still life: at a chess players" (1992)
Smilstein, Harry; "White to play and win" (1980)
Solakian, Vatche; "The game" (2004)
Solnon, Daniel; "L'Echiquier"
Soltau-Suhrlandt, Pauline (1833-1902)
Sorbi, Raffaello; "Osteria a Fiesole" (1889)
Sorbi, Raffaello; "Osteria all'aperto" (1892)
Souza, F.; "Untitled (chess)"
Sotskova, Lena; "Violin and chess"
Spa, David (1901-1998); "Sense Nom"
Sphicas, Nicholas (1961-    ); "24.Ng5!!  1-0" (1992)
Spitzer, Jim
Sporting Magazine; "Philidor Playing Blindfold at Parsloe's" (1794)
Steimer, Sabine; "Schach" (2005)
Stepanova, Varvara (1894-1958)
Stephens, Kate; "The Chess Player"
Stephenson, J; "Paul Morphy" 
Stilton, Peter; "Chess court promenade"
Stilton, Peter; "Sir Winslow and Spencer defend the faith"
Stoddard, Alice (1885-1976); "Chess players"
Stone, Frank (1800-1859)
Stone, J.; "Check to the Queen"
Stoskopff, Sebastien (1597-1657)
Strandberg, Gabirel; "Portrait of Alexander Alekhine"
Strino, Gianni; "Giocatori di scacchi"
Stuart, Gilbert Charles (1755-1828)
Studnicki, Juliusz (1906-1978)
Suardo, Giovanni; "An Elegant Couple Playing Chess" (1375)
Sumner, Maud Frances Eyston (1902-1985); "Chess"
Talbot, W.H. Fox; Chess daguerreotype (1840)
Tanning, Dorothea; "End game" (1944)
Tanguay, Yves
Tanning, Dorothea; "A Game of Chess" (1947)
Taubert, Gustav Friedrich Amalius (1755-1839)
Taulbut, John; "Hastings" (1979)  
Taylor, Joanne (1952-    ); "Chess jester" 
Taylor, Martin
Telake, Arif (1948- )  "De Volgende zet" (the next move) (1985)
Teneh-Tannenbaum, Yoel (1889-1973); "Men Playing Chess"
Tenniel, John; "The Chess Players" (illustration in Alice in Wonderland)
Teniers, Abraham (1629-1670)
Thecla, Julia (1896-1973)
Thibodeau, Eric; "Echec a la reine"
Thompson, Richard Earl (1914-1991); "Concentration"
Tisch, Lawrence
Tischbein, Anton (1720-1784)
Tischbein, Johann Heinrich W. (1751-1829); "Konradin of Swabia and Friederich of Baden awaiting sentence" (1785)
Tissot, James (1836-1902)
Tobey, David (1954-    ); "The Chess Match" (2007)
Todd, James; "Art of Chess"
Tokareva, Olga; "Chess" (2004)
Tommasi Ferroni, Riccardo; "Una partita a scacchi" (1986)
Tordi, Sinibaldo; "Partita a scacchi"
Torrallardona, Carlos (1913-1986)
Torrent. Jose Mongrell (1870-1937); "Mosqueteros jugando al ajedrez" (1894)
Traversi, Gaspare (1722-1770); "Rissa"
Treisman, Elaine; "The chess players"
Trevisan, Carlo; "Marina con scacchi"
Tristan
Troost, Cornelis (1697-1750)
Truppe, Karl (1887-1959); "Vita Victrix" (1942)
Truppe, Karl (1887-1959); "Schachspiel mit dem Tod"
Tschikowa, Tatjana; "Schach" (2003)
Tschikowa, Tatjana; "Spiel" (2003)
Tullat, Lucie (1895-?)
Tuthill, Abraham (1776-1843)
Ughi, Segio; "Partita a scacchi" (1981)
Ughi, Segio; "Il bianco abbandona" (2002)
Ulisse; "La soluzione"
Unknown; "An Evening of Chess" (18th Century) 
Vaarberg, Johannes (1825-1871)
Vagnini, Noelia; "Ajedrez" (2005)
Vago, Sandor (1887-1946)
Vaisman, Alexander; "Chess" (1995)
Valderrama, Esteban (1892-1964)
Valentinovna, Rufova; "Fiori e scacchi" (1998)
Valera, Merce; "Caida" (1998)
Vamosi, Tamas; "Sakk"
Van Beek, Mietje; "Schachspieler" (1982)
van Delft, Dirk; "Royal Family Playing Chess" (1400)
Van der Werff, Adriann
Van Leyden, Lucas (1494-1533); "Die schachpartie" (1508)
Van Manders, Karl; "Jonson and Shakespeare playing at chess" (1604)
Vanloo, Charles Amedee Philippe (1719-1795)
Varotari, Alessandro (1588-1648); "Marte gioca a scacchi con Venere" (1630)
Vasarely, Victor (1908-1997); "Chess"
Vasnetsov, Youri (1900-1973); "Nature morte avec un echiquier" (1927)
Vassover, Varda (1900-?)
Vautier, Benjamin (1829-1898); "Die schachpartie"
Venturini, Steve
Verdu, Flor; "Puzzle ajedrecistico"
Verkolje, Jan (1650-1693)
Verkolje, Nicolaas (1673-1693)
Vermehren, Johan Frederik (1823-1910)
Vermeyen, Jan Cornelisz (1500-1559); "Von Sachsen playing chess with a spanish noble" (1549)
Vernizzi, Luca; "Torneo de scacchi" (1973)
Verona, Liberale da; "The game of chess" (1480)
Vibert, Jehan Georges (1840-1902)
Vicky
Viegener, Eberhard (1890-1967); "Stilleben mit spielkarten und schachbrett" (1932)
Vieira da Silva, M. (1908-1992); "El Sueno" (1949)
Vieira da Silva, M. (1908-1992); "La parite d'echecs" (1943)
Villon, Jacques (Gaston Duchamp) (1875-1963); "Table d'Echecs" (1904)
Vital; "The game we play" (2002)
Vlaminck, Maurice
Voss, Palais; "Chess Party"
Wagrez, Jacques Clement (1846-1908); "The Chess Players"
Wall, Gerald (1952- )
Ward, Tyrone; "Chess Game" (1996)
Ward, Vernon (1905-1985)
Watson, George (1767-1837)
Waugh, Frederick (1861-1940); "Chess players" (1891)
Wauquelin
Webb, Charles Meer (1830-1895)
Webb, Judith; "Chess: It's your move now"
Weber, Alfred; "The lunch of his Eminence" (1913)
Weber, Paul (1893-1980); "Don Quijote und Sancho Pansa" (1976)
Weinstein, Robert; "Chess"
Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889)
Weisbuch, Claude (1927-    ); "La partie d'echecs"
Weissman, Beth; "Chess Players" (1990)
Welch, Denton (1915-1948)
Wentzel, Nils Gustav (1859-1927); "Sjakkspillere" (Chess) (1886)
Werff, Adriaen van der (1659-1722)
Werner, Johann (1750-1790)
Wessendorf, Volker; "Schachmatt und das spiel geht weiter" (2004)
West, Joseph; "The chess players (Black to move)" (1920)
Whitehurst, Sharon; "Within attraction"
Williams, Dave
Witalis, Ernie
Wolchonok, Louis (1898-1973); "Chess in the park" (1930)
Wolfe, Franz Xavier (1896-1967)
Wolff, Patrick; "A Chess Game"
Wonder, Pieter Christoffel (1780-1852); "Sir John Murray Plays Chess"
Woodville, Richard Caton (1825-1855)
Woolmer, Alfred (1805-1892)
Yarovoy, Konstantin; "Still life with chess set" (2004)
Zabala, Eduardo (1842-1871)
Zademack, Siegfried; "David und Goliath spielen schach" (1985)
Zaitsev, Dmitir; "Chess" (2002)
Zanetti, Aldo; "Scacco alla morte"
Zeitlin, Grigori (1911-?); "Playing chess" (1949)
Ziesenis, Johann Georg (1716-1777)
Zimmermann, Leonore; "Schach - Matt" (2005)
Zulawski, Jacek (1907-1976)
Zylack, Sue; "Check mate" (2004)

for a larger list, see Gerhhard Josten's Schach auf Olgmalden