Antoine Wiertz
Belgian Romantic painter and sculptor. His output, featuring such macabre scenes as violent suicide and premature burial has persuaded some critics to consider it the work of a madman.
Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse
English artist, specialist in flower painting; her husband was fellow artist John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse
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.
William Waterhouse
English artist; father of John William Waterhouse
Isabella Waterhouse
English portrait painter; mother of John William Waterhouse
Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait and landscape painter, founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Frederic Leighton
English painter, knighted in 1878.
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.
Emily Ford
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.