Anna Atkins
Electric blue: the first photographic book
1799 – 1871
Aubrey Beardsley
"If I am not grotesque I am nothing"
1872 – 1898
Augustus Osborne Lamplough
The poetry of sand and sun
1877 – 1930
Austin Osman Spare
1886 – 1956
Barbara Hepworth
The ovoid and its penetration
1903 – 1975
Charles Darwin
The art of seeing
1809 – 1882
Clare Atwood
1866 – 1962
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Querulous poet founds art movement
1828 – 1882
David Hockney
Eadweard Muybridge
A brilliant murderer studies motion
1830 – 1904
Edward Burne-Jones
A return to stained-glass grace
1833 – 1898
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
1872 – 1945
Emma Sandys
1843 – 1877
Evelyn De Morgan
"Art is eternal, but life is short…"
1855 – 1919
George Ripley
Nothing is what it seems in the search for the Philosopher's Stone
1415 – 1490
George Stubbs
1724 – 1806
Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)
Great painter and social icon
1895 – 1978
John Constable
Nature wins, every time
1776 – 1837
John Dee
The man who summoned angels
1527 – 1608
John Everett Millais
Prodigy, Pre-Raphaelite, sellout?
1829 – 1896
John William Godward
"The world is not big enough for myself and Picasso"
1861 – 1922
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Every age has its star; meet J.M.W. Turner
1775 – 1851
Joseph Wright of Derby
The birth of science out of fire
1734 – 1797
Julia Margaret Cameron
1815 – 1879
Laura Knight
1877 – 1970
Leonora Carrington
"I'm not anyone's muse"
1917 – 2011
Louis Wain
1860 – 1939
Madge Gill
An orphan talks to angels
1882 – 1961
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
1864 – 1933
Marie Spartali Stillman
1844 – 1927
Mary Beale
Mary brings home the bacon
1633 – 1699
Moses Haughton the Younger
The reason Henry Fuseli got famous
1773 – 1849
Russell Drysdale
The Feelbad Lands
1912 – 1981
Simeon Solomon
Flamboyant, unrepentant, and fabulous
1840 – 1905
Stanley William Hayter
1901 – 1988
Susan Penelope Rosse
Tiny paintings of presumably normal-sized people
1652 – 1700
Thomas Woolner
Sculptor turned poet, Pre-Raphaelite turned Neoclassicist
1825 – 1892
William Blake
Art is life, science is death
1757 – 1827
William Henry Fox Talbot
Britain's photographic pioneer
1800 – 1877
William Hogarth
A printmaker analyzes taste — and beauty comes out on top
1697 – 1764
William Holman Hunt
Stubborn commitment = beauty
1827 – 1910
William Morris
Can you run a socialist company in a capitalist economy?
1834 – 1896
