The poetry of sand and sun
A. O. Lamplough
1877-1930"If I am not grotesque I am nothing"
Aubrey Beardsley
1872-1898The ovoid and its penetration
Barbara Hepworth
1903-1975The art of seeing
Charles Darwin
1809-1882Querulous poet founds art movement
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828-1882A brilliant murderer studies motion
Eadweard Muybridge
1830-1904A return to stained-glass grace
Edward Burne-Jones
1833-1898"Art is eternal, but life is short…"
Evelyn De Morgan
1855-1919Nothing is what it seems in the search for the Philosopher's Stone
George Ripley
1415-1490Great painter and social icon
Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)
1895-1978Nature wins, every time
John Constable
1776-1837The man who summoned angels
John Dee
1527-1608Prodigy, Pre-Raphaelite, sellout?
John Everett Millais
1829-1896Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1775-1851The birth of science out of fire
Joseph Wright of Derby
1734-1797"I'm not anyone's muse"
Leonora Carrington
1917-2011An orphan talks to angels
Madge Gill
1882-1961Mary brings home the bacon
Mary Beale
1633-1699Flamboyant, unrepentant, and fabulous
Simeon Solomon
1840-1905Tiny paintings of presumably normal-sized people
Susan Penelope Rosse
1652-1700Sculptor turned poet, Pre-Raphaelite turned Neoclassicist
Thomas Woolner
1825-1892Art is life, science is death
William Blake
1757-1827Britain's photographic pioneer
William Henry Fox Talbot
1800-1877A printmaker analyzes taste — and beauty comes out on top
William Hogarth
1697-1764Stubborn commitment = beauty
William Holman Hunt
1827-1910Can you run a socialist company in a capitalist economy?