William Hogarth (1697–1764) was an English painter and engraver, best known for the satirical picture series A Harlot's Progress , A Rake's P…
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John Ruskin (1819–1900) was the most influential art critic of Victorian England. He was also a skilled draughtsman and watercolourist, and he drew b…
William Morris (1834–1896) was an English designer, poet, and craftsman who changed the look of Victorian homes. Through his firm, Morris & Co., …
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) was the leading portrait painter of eighteenth-century Britain and the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts, …
William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, painter, and engraver who saw his art as a form of prophecy. He made his books himself, etching words …
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian painter and theorist, widely regarded as one of the pioneers of abstract art. He came to painting late, a…
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) was one of the central voices of German Romanticism: a composer of piano cycles, songs, symphonies, and chamber music, an…