Aubrey Beardsley
"If I am not grotesque I am nothing"
1872-1898Augustus Osborne Lamplough
The poetry of sand and sun
1877-1930Barbara Hepworth
The ovoid and its penetration
1903-1975Charles Darwin
The art of seeing
1809-1882Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Querulous poet founds art movement
1828-1882Eadweard Muybridge
A brilliant murderer studies motion
1830-1904Edward Burne-Jones
A return to stained-glass grace
1833-1898Evelyn De Morgan
"Art is eternal, but life is short…"
1855-1919George Ripley
Nothing is what it seems in the search for the Philosopher's Stone
1415-1490Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)
Great painter and social icon
1895-1978John Constable
Nature wins, every time
1776-1837John Dee
The man who summoned angels
1527-1608John Everett Millais
Prodigy, Pre-Raphaelite, sellout?
1829-1896Joseph Mallord William Turner
Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner
1775-1851Joseph Wright of Derby
The birth of science out of fire
1734-1797Leonora Carrington
"I'm not anyone's muse"
1917-2011Madge Gill
An orphan talks to angels
1882-1961Mary Beale
Mary brings home the bacon
1633-1699Simeon Solomon
Flamboyant, unrepentant, and fabulous
1840-1905Susan Penelope Rosse
Tiny paintings of presumably normal-sized people
1652-1700Thomas Woolner
Sculptor turned poet, Pre-Raphaelite turned Neoclassicist
1825-1892William Blake
Art is life, science is death
1757-1827William Henry Fox Talbot
Britain's photographic pioneer
1800-1877William Hogarth
A printmaker analyzes taste — and beauty comes out on top
1697-1764William Holman Hunt
Stubborn commitment = beauty
1827-1910William Morris
Can you run a socialist company in a capitalist economy?
1834-1896