thoughout historry there are a number of different artist that have left the print on there work as a sine them self like
this painting was don in 1474 by Ginevro de Benci

there are Other prominent artists who painted with their fingers include Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528); Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516); Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-69) (see "Digital Analysis 'Fingerprints' Artists," Scientific American, 23 November 2004); Cornelius Ketel (1548-1616), Piero della Francesca (1410-1492); Michelangelo (1475-1564); Goya (1746-1828); Degas (1834-1917); Jackson Pollock (1912-1956); and Francis Bacon (1909-1992). These fingerprints might provide good "exemplars" (samples) for authentication. (Kirsh and Levinson, p. 134.)



One of the Gavrinis Island slabs with fingerprint-like carving image.