British genre painter Mark W. Langlois often turned his attention to the depiction of rustic life. He was born in 1848 in Surrey. While his training is a mystery, his…

John Edwin Noble was born in 1876. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. He then served as a Royal Army Veterinary Corps sergeant during…

Samuel Palmer (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism…

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a 19th-century explorer who was known for his many publications about his expeditions around the world. Burton was born and raised in Torquay, Devonshire,…

Algernon Talmage (1871-1939) was a British Impressionist at the turn of the 20th century. He was known for his quaint landscapes and fascination with painting horses. Talmage was born and…

Samuel Henry Baker (1824-1909) was a 19th-century British landscape painter. Baker was born and spent his youth in Birmingham, England. He got his artistic training at the Royal Birmingham Society…

John Bertonccini (1872-1947) was a maritime artist. Little is known about Bertonccini’s personal life and childhood other than that he was born to an Italian father and a Swedish mother.…

James William Peachey was a draftsman and engraver. Nothing is known about his early life, not even his birth date. Records show that he was a surveyor in Canada, England,…

W.A. Williams is an engraver who lived and worked during the 18th century. Engraving is a printmaking process in which the artist carves a design into a metal plate (copper…

Alfred Augustus Glendening was born in London around 1840. Not much has been found about his early life or where he got his artistic training, but it is known that…

Peter de Wint was a successful English watercolor painter in the early nineteenth century. He moved to London in 1802 and soon got an apprenticeship under John Raphael Smith, a…

Born in 1832 to parents that painted, Louise Rayner was encouraged and destined to have an art career. At the age of ten, Rayner and her family moved to London,…

John Nugent Fitch was a British botany lithographer born on October 24th, 1840. His uncle, Walter Hood Fitch, gave him art training. Walter Fitch was among the most significant contributors…

Scholars have little biographical information about John Whitchurch Bennett beyond what can be gleaned from his military service records. In 1816, when he was a 2nd lieutenant in the British…

Edward Dayes was an English artist born in London on August 6, 1763. As a young adult, Dayes started studying at the Royal Academy Schools in 1780. While in school,…

Edward Burne-Jones was a Pre-Raphaelite painter who was also incredibly talented in the decorative arts, particularly tapestries and stained glass. Edward Burne-Jones was born in Birmingham, England, on August 28,…

Charles Burton Barber (b. 1845 – d. 1894) was a British artist who is most known for creating delightful paintings of children and animals. Many of Barber’s most famous works…

James Hayllar (b. 1829 – d. 1920) was a British painter who was most known for his portraits, figure subjects, and landscapes. Early in his career he focused on creating…

Arthur Alfred Burrington (b. 1856 – d. 1924) was an English artist who was known for creating idyllic scenes of everyday English life. Burrington’s work celebrated the simplicity and virtue…

Soon after his acceptance to the Royal Academy of Arts in his native London, William Holman Hunt met John Everett Millais in 1844. When Hunt exhibited his painting The Eve…