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Antoine Wiertz (1806–1865) was a Belgian Romantic painter and sculptor. His output, featuring such macabre scenes as violent suicide and premature burial has persuaded some critics as the work of a madman.

Emily Susan Ford (1850–1930), artist and campaigner for women’s rights, was born into a Quaker family in Leeds. She trained as an artist at the Slade School of Art and exhibited at the Royal Academy.

English artist, specialist in flower painting; her husband was fellow artist John William Waterhouse

Frederic Leighton was an English painter, knighted in 1878.

English portrait painter; mother of John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse was an English artist known primarily for his depictions of women set in scenes from myth, legend or poetry. He is the best known of that group of artists who from the 1880s revived the literary themes favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites.

Scottish artist, antiquary, poet and sculptor

Roger Hampson (1925–1996), painter, printmaker and teacher, was a member of the group of post-war northern artists who developed the realist tradition established by L S Lowry and Harry Rutherford.

Portrait and landscape painter, and a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts.

English artist; father of John William Waterhouse