George Ripley
Nothing is what it seems in the search for the Philosopher's Stone
1415-1490John Dee
The man who summoned angels
1527-1608Mary Beale
Mary brings home the bacon
1633-1699Susan Penelope Rosse
Tiny paintings of presumably normal-sized people
1652-1700William Hogarth
A printmaker analyzes taste — and beauty comes out on top
1697-1764William Blake
Art is life, science is death
1757-1827John Constable
Nature wins, every time
1776-1837Joseph Mallord William Turner
Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner
1775-1851William Henry Fox Talbot
The inventor of photography in Britain
1800-1877Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Querulous poet founds art movement
1828-1882Charles Darwin
The art of seeing
1809-1882Thomas Woolner
Sculptor turned poet, Pre-Raphaelite turned Neoclassicist
1825-1892William Morris
Can you run a socialist company in a capitalist economy?
1834-1896John Everett Millais
Prodigy, Pre-Raphaelite, sellout?
1829-1896Aubrey Beardsley
"If I am not grotesque I am nothing"
1872-1898Edward Burne-Jones
A return to stained-glass grace
1833-1898Eadweard Muybridge
A brilliant murderer studies motion
1830-1904Simeon Solomon
Flamboyant, unrepentant, and fabulous
1840-1905William Holman Hunt
Stubborn commitment = beauty
1827-1910Evelyn De Morgan
"Art is eternal, but life is short…"
1855-1919A. O. Lamplough
The poetry of sand and sun
1877-1930Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)
Yes, you can be both a social icon and a great painter.
1895-1978Leonora Carrington
"I'm not anyone's muse"
1917-2011John Singer Sargent
Portrait Painter Extraordinaire
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Coming in from the cold
1930-Anthony van Dyck
Foppish men, elegant women, and cavalier style
1599-1641Angelica Kauffmann
A feminist prodigy charms the European elite
1741-1807James Nasmyth
The inventor of the steam hammer maps the moon
1808-1890Alfred Sisley
Why did we forget about Alfred Sisley?
1839-1899James McNeill Whistler
A lesson in making enemies
1834-1903Winslow Homer
Transcend criticism by embracing solitude
1836-1910André Derain
In the shadow of brighter colors
1880-1954Francis Bacon
The never-ending scream
1909-1992Ali Al Jabri
A life of parallel universes
1942-2002