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Elizabeth Thompson was a painter who specialized in British military scenes. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, she moved to London in 1866. Thompson gained popularity for her paintings of soldiers that…
Read MoreA British painter and sculptor, Edwina Sandys is a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to British cultural interests in New York.…
Read MoreDora Carrington was an English painter who studied at the Slade School of Art at the University College in London in 1910; she received a scholarship and several prizes for…
Read MoreVanessa Bell, the older sister of famed author Virginia Woolf, was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a group of artists, writers, and intellectuals in mid-20th Century London. Bell’s…
Read MoreMary Beale was a prolific portrait painter in Baroque-era England. She is known for being the first female artist in England to fully support herself and her family with her…
Read MoreMary Gartside was an English watercolorist and color theorist. She wrote books and essays about mixing colors and the use of light and shadow in her paintings. She observed the…
Read MoreBeatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those…
Read MoreDante Gabriel Rossetti (/ˈdænti ˈɡeɪbriəl rəˈzɛti/; 12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William…
Read MoreJoseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was a British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his…
Read MoreSir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the \”Grand Style\” in painting which…
Read MoreWilliam Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and English Arts and Crafts Movement.…
Read MoreGustav Sohon (1825–1903) was an artist, interpreter, and topographical assistant. Born in 1825 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Gustav Sohon immigrated to the United States in 1842 at the age of…
Read MoreJohn Webber Muyundo RA (London 6 October 1751[1] – 29 May 1793 London) was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known…
Read MoreA London based photographer, Vinton\’s practice is informed by ethnographic practice and focuses on themes of life, movement, freedom, space, and world cultures. She works to visually document cultures and…
Read MoreAubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. |…
Read MoreFrances \”Fanny\” Flora Bond Palmer was a British American artist and lithographer who worked for the celebrated firm Currier & Ives. Palmer created over 200 prints for the firm and…
Read MoreMary Evelyn De Morgan was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Her works famously contain themes of the female figure, spirituality, pacifism, and a rejection of material wealth–…
Read More(1857 – February 24, 1919) Julian Russell Story was born in 1857 in Walton-upon-Thames, England. He received his education at Eton and Oxford and later studied art in Munich, Germany,…
Read MoreDame Eileen Mayo (1906- 1994) was an English born artist and designer who worked in almost all mediums, including woodcuts, drawings, calligraphy, and silk screening. During her extensive career, she…
Read MoreEthel Carrick Fox was an English-born painter who traveled around the world throughout her art career, spending time in both France and Australia. She painted in the impressionist and post-impressionist…
Read MoreWilliam Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the…
Read MoreThomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished…
Read MoreAnna Atkins was a botanist who became interested in photography to record her specimens. Her book, \”British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions\”, may be the first published books of photography and she…
Read MoreMaude Goodman (1853-1938) was an English-born painter, whose birth name was Matilda Goodman. She was raised and encouraged to pursue art by her step-mother after the passing of her mother.…
Read MoreKate Greenaway was an English artist and writer best known for her children\’s books. Her style was revolutionary in book illustration and was copied in England and around the world.…
Read MoreJohn Constable was an English Landscape painter that received critical acclaim for his exquisitely detailed paintings of the English countryside. Born in 1776 in Suffolk, Constable found himself enamored of…
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