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
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
1937-
Eadweard Muybridge
A brilliant murderer studies motion
1830-1904
Edward Burne-Jones
A return to stained-glass grace
1833-1898
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
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner
1775-1851
Joseph Wright of Derby
The birth of science out of fire
1734-1797
Julia Margaret Cameron
1815-1879
Leonora Carrington
"I'm not anyone's muse"
1917-2011
Madge Gill
An orphan talks to angels
1882-1961
Mary Beale
Mary brings home the bacon
1633-1699
Simeon Solomon
Flamboyant, unrepentant, and fabulous
1840-1905
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
