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.
Joseph Noel Paton
Scottish artist, antiquary, poet and sculptor.
Pierre Adolphe Valette
French Impressionist painter who taught at the Manchester School of Art from 1906 until 1920.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Group of English artists formed in 1848 to counter what they saw as the corrupting influence of the late-Renaissance painter Raphael.
Richard Dadd
English painter of the Victorian era , noted for his depiction of fairies and other supernatural subjects. Most were completed while he was an inmate of Bedlam and Broadmoor lunatic asylums.
Robert Huskisson, artist
British portrait painter particularly recognised for his fairy paintings.
Roger Hampson
Painter, printmaker, teacher and a member of the group of post-war northern artists who developed the realist tradition established by L S Lowry and Harry Rutherford.
The Clique (art group)
Short-lived group of English artists active during the late 1830s, dissatisfied with the stuffy traditionalism of the Royal Academy.
Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait and landscape painter, founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
William Holman Hunt
English painter (1827–1910), one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.