A. O. Lamplough — The poetry of sand and sun
1877-1930Aubrey Beardsley — "If I am not grotesque I am nothing"
1872-1898Barbara 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) — Yes, you can be both a social icon and a great painter.
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 — The inventor of photography in Britain
1800-1877William Hogarth — A printmaker analyzes taste — and beauty comes out on top
1697-1764William Holman Hunt — Stubborn commitment = beauty
1827-1910