From Google's "Famous painters" list: + Picasso's family was Spanish nobility, with his father also a painter + van Gogh's father was an art dealer + Monet's

From Google's "Famous painters" list: + Picasso's family was Spanish nobility, with his father also a painter + van Gogh's father was an art dealer + Monet's father owned a ship supply retailer + Rembrandt's father was a miller, but was described as "well-to-do" on their wikipedia page + Dali's father was a lawyer + Kahlo's father was a photographer (in the 19th century) and was university educated - Pollock was from relatively humble family background. "Famous Poets": + Dickinson, as you already pointed out, + Frost's father was a newspaper editor is San Fransisco and failed politician + Poe's parents were successful actors + Langston Hughes' father was a member of "the elite, politically active Langston family", though as the grandchild of slaves was hardly born with a silver spoon + Sylvia Plath's father was a professor + Elizabeth Barrett's family were Caribbean plantation owners + Shakespeare's father owned a successful glover's business - Whitman's family was previously wealthy, but it got lost due to bad investments - Pablo Neruda was from a working class family in Chile