Horace Henry Cauty

English painter of genre, landscape and historical scenes (c. 1846 –1909).

The Clique (art group)

Short-lived group of English artists active during the late 1830s, dissatisfied with the stuffy traditionalism of the Royal Academy.

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.

Henry Fuseli


Swiss-born British Romantic artist (1741–1825), who established a reputation for his paintings depicting the horrifying and fantastic.

William Holman Hunt

English painter (1827–1910), one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

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.

John Henry Mole

English artist (1814–1886) who became a professional miniature painter in 1835, later focusing on landscapes and portraits of children.

James Sharples

Blacksmith and self-taught artist whose major work, The Forge, was completed in 1847.

John Simmons, artist

English painter recognised as a specialist in painting female fairies, frequently nude.