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William Henry Fox Talbot
The inventor of photography in Britain
1800-1877Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
Visionary promoter of photography
1787-1851Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Painted for Marie Antoinette and never made a dime
1755-1842Berthe Morisot
The soul of Impressionism
1841-1895Angelica Kauffmann
A feminist prodigy charms the European elite
1741-1807Anna Ancher
Quiet portraits of daily life
1859-1935Adolf Wölfli
The man who rewrote his life
1864-1930Claude Cahun
"Under this mask, another mask; I will never finish removing all these faces"
1894-1954Man Ray
Humor, sex, and a new camera
1890-1976Hippolyte Bayard
The second person to invent photography
1801-1887Nicéphore Niépce
The inventor of Photography
1765-1833William Hogarth
A printmaker analyzes taste — and beauty comes out on top
1697-1764Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Making a solid living from Etchings
1720-1778Armand Henrion
Yes, he only paints clowns
1875-1958Hishida Shunsō
A quiet boy paints cats in a new style
1874-1911Robert Cornelius
The inventor of the selfie
1809-1893Félix Nadar
Photographer, caricaturist, novelist — and balloonist?
1820-1910Luca della Robbia
Terra-cotta Master
1399-1482Sarah Bernhardt
Actress on stage and screen moonlights as a sculptor
1844-1923Osman Hamdi Bey
Archeologist, painter, scientist, curator, orphan
1842-1910