England

Anna Atkins

Electric blue: the first photographic book

Aubrey Beardsley

"If I am not grotesque I am nothing"

Augustus Osborne Lamplough

The poetry of sand and sun

Charles Darwin

The art of seeing

Clare Atwood

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Querulous poet founds art movement

David Hockney

Eadweard Muybridge

A brilliant murderer studies motion

Edward Burne-Jones

A return to stained-glass grace

Evelyn De Morgan

"Art is eternal, but life is short…"

George Ripley

Nothing is what it seems in the search for the Philosopher's Stone

George Stubbs

Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)

Great painter and social icon

John Constable

Nature wins, every time

John Dee

The man who summoned angels

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Wright of Derby

The birth of science out of fire

Julia Margaret Cameron

Leonora Carrington

"I'm not anyone's muse"

Mary Beale

Mary brings home the bacon

Simeon Solomon

Flamboyant, unrepentant, and fabulous

William Blake

Art is life, science is death

William Henry Fox Talbot

Britain's photographic pioneer

William Hogarth

A printmaker analyzes taste — and beauty comes out on top

William Holman Hunt

Stubborn commitment = beauty

William Morris

Can you run a socialist company in a capitalist economy?