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  1. Brooke, L. Leslie Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) was a renowned English illustrator and painter, notable for his captivating depictions of animals and enchanting wildlife scenes. Born in Manchester, Brooke demonstrated artistic talent from a young age, eventually studying at the Manchester School of Art. His early exposure to the natural world had a profound influence on his work, shaping his distinctive style. Brooke gained prominence for his illustrations in children’s literature, most notably for the Edw...
  2. Broinowski, Gracius Gracius Joseph Broinowski (1837-1913) was a Polish Australian artist and ornithologist known for his detailed illustrations of Australian birds and mammals. Born in 1837 in Walichnowy, Poland, Broinowski was the son of a landowner and military officer. He studied languages, classics and art at Munich University before embarking on a journey to Australia in around 1857. Upon arriving in Australia, Broinowski initially worked various jobs, including working for a publisher in Melbourne and sell...
  3. Brinsley Le Fanu, George Brinsley Le Fanu (1854-1929) was born George Brinsley Le Fanu, the youngest son of Sheridan Le Fanu, on 1st August 1854 in Dublin. We don't know anything about his formal education, but he worked a lot, illustrating such classics as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of Shalott and the Voyage of Maeldune by Sir Alfred Tennyson, Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Story of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Uncle ...
  4. Briggs, Ernest Ernest Briggs (1866-1913) was born in Broughty Ferry, the youngest of five children of Henry Currer Briggs and Catherine Shepherd. The Briggs family were colliery owners in Yorkshire, but Ernest’s father also became involved in the jute industry in Dundee, where, in the 1860s, he was a partner in the firm of Thomson Shepherd and Co. Owing to poor health, Ernest was unable to join his brothers in the coal industry but the family’s wealth allowed him to pursue his interest in art. Author and il...
  5. Caldecott, Randolph Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. Caldecott greatly influenced the illustration of children's books during the nineteenth century. Two books illustrated by him, priced at a shilling each, were published every Christmas for eight years. Caldecott also illustrated novels and accounts of foreign travel, made humorous drawings depicting hunting and fashionable life, drew cartoons and he made sketches of the Houses of Parliament inside and ou...
  6. Caillebotte, Gustave Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group. Caillebotte was known for his early interest in photography as an art form. Gustave Caillebotte was born on 19 August 1848 to an upper-class Parisian family living in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis. His father, Martial Caillebotte (1799–1874), was the inheritor of the family's military textile business and wa...
  7. Byam Shaw, John John Byam Liston Shaw (1872-1919), commonly known as Byam Shaw, was a British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher. Byam Shaw was the son of John Shaw and his wife, Sophia Alicia Byam Gunthorpe. In 1899, Byam Shaw married the artist, Evelyn Caroline Eunice Pyke-Nott, later known as Evelyn CE Shaw (1870-1959). Byam Shaw came from an Ayrshire family of lawyers and clerics. The couple had five children, including the actor and theatre director Glen Byam Shaw and the art historian James &...
  8. Canaletto Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. A Painter of cityscapes of Venice, Rome, and London, he also painted imaginary views (referred to as capricci). In the period from 1746 to 1756, he worked in England, where he painted many views of London and other sites, including Warwick Castle and Alnwick Castle. He was highly successful in England, thanks to the British me...
  9. Burton, William Shakespeare William Shakespeare Burton (1824-1916) was an English genre and historical painter of the Victorian era. He is now remembered mainly for The Wounded Cavalier (1855). Burton's grandfather was a printer, and his father was William Evans Burton, a comic actor and playwright who found popular success in the United States while leaving his wife and son behind in London, with little money. An only child, the younger Burton worked at copying prints as a teenager. The dramatist and critic Tom Tay...
  10. Burne-Jones, Edward Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was a prominent British artist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his enchanting and romanticised depictions of mythological and medieval subjects. Born on 28th August 1833 in Birmingham, England, Burne-Jones initially pursued a career in theology before turning to art, influenced by the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and other Pre-Raphaelites. He became a close friend and collaborator of William Morris, leading to their joint ventures in d...
  11. Cane, Ella Du Ella Mary Du Cane (1874-1943) was the third and youngest daughter of politician and colonial administrator Sir Charles Du Cane and his wife, Georgiana Susan Copley. Through her mother, she was the great-granddaughter of the artist John Singleton Copley. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in the last year of her father's five-year term as Governor of Tasmania, shortly before the family returned to their country house at Braxted Park, Essex. Her older sister Florence was born in 1869. Ella m...
  12. Brunelleschi, Umberto Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949) was an Italian artist. He was born in Montemurlo, Italy, studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence and moved to Paris in 1900 with Ardengo Soffici where he soon established himself as a printer, book illustrator, set and costume designer. He worked for Le Rire as a caricaturist (often under the pseudonym's Aroun-al-Raxid or Aron-al-Rascid) and was a contributor to many of the deluxe French fashion publications including Journal des Dames et Des...
  13. Chavannes, Pierre Puvis de Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work influenced many other artists, notably Robert Genin, and he aided medallists by designs and suggestions for their works. Puvis de Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as "an art made of reason, pas...
  14. Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. Caravaggio was born in Milan, where his father, Fermo (Fermo Merixio), was a household administrator and architect-decorator to the marquess of Caravaggio, a town 35 km (22 mi) to the east of Milan and south of Bergamo. In 1576 the family moved to Caravaggio to escape a plague that ravaged Milan, and Caravaggio's father and grandfather both...
  15. Chéret, Jules Jules Chéret (1836-1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster. Born in Paris to a poor but creative family of artisans, Chéret had a very limited education. At age thirteen, he began a three-year apprenticeship with a lithographer and then his interest in painting led him to take an art course at the École Nationale de Dessin. Like most other fledgling artists, Chéret studied the techniques of ...
  16. Cézanne, Paul Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is often hailed as one of the most influential painters in the history of modern art. Born in 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne's work laid the foundation for the transition from 19th-century Impressionism to the radically different world of 20th-century Cubism. His innovative approach to form, colour and composition significantly influenced later artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Cézanne began his artistic journey in Paris, where he met and ...