LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Lawrence Alma-Tadema	Painter	8-Jan-1836	25-Jun-1912	Classicist painter
Barry Andrews	Musician	12-Sep-1956		Former XTC keyboardist, Shriekback co-founder
Banksy	Artist	c. 1977		Graffiti stenciler
Aubrey Beardsley	Artist	21-Aug-1872	16-Mar-1898	Leading late 19th c. English illustrator
Thomas Bewick	Engraver	12-Aug-1753	8-Nov-1828	English wood engraver
William Blake	Poet	28-Nov-1757	12-Aug-1827	English romantic poet and artist
Branwell Brontë	Poet	26-Jun-1817	24-Sep-1848	The Brontë sisters' brother
Ford Madox Brown	Painter	16-Apr-1821	6-Oct-1893	English historical painter
Edward Burne-Jones	Painter	28-Aug-1833	16-Jun-1898	British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Leonora Carrington	Painter	6-Apr-1917	25-May-2011	Last surviving Surrealist
John Constable	Painter	11-Jun-1776	31-Mar-1837	English landscape painter
John Singleton Copley	Painter	3-Jul-1738	9-Sep-1815	Boy with a Squirrel
Walter Crane	Artist	15-Aug-1845	17-Mar-1915	British children's illustrator
Odile Crick	Artist	11-Aug-1920	5-Jul-2007	Sketched the double helix
John Crome	Painter	22-Dec-1768	22-Apr-1821	Painter of trees, Norwich School
George Cruikshank	Artist	27-Sep-1792	1-Feb-1878	English caricaturist
Danielle Dax	Musician	?		Unique multi-media artist and performer
Edmund Dulac	Artist	22-Oct-1882	25-May-1953	Children's book illustrator
Augustus Egg	Painter	2-May-1816	26-Mar-1863	Life and Death of Buckingham
Warren Ellis	Author	16-Feb-1968		Transmetropolitan
Jacob Epstein	Sculptor	10-Nov-1880	21-Aug-1959	Strand Statues
Richard Fortey	Paleontologist	1946		Trilobites and graptolites
Thomas Gainsborough	Painter	14-May-1727	2-Aug-1788	Portrait and landscape painter
Grinling Gibbons	Sculptor	4-Apr-1648	3-Aug-1721	English wood carver
John Gibson	Sculptor	19-Jun-1790	27-Jan-1866	English neoclassical sculptor
Eric Gill	Typographer	22-Feb-1882	17-Nov-1940	Typographer, Gill Sans
James Gillray	Artist	13-Aug-1756	1-Jun-1815	English caricaturist
John Golding	Critic	10-Sep-1929	9-Apr-2012	Cubism: A History and an Analysis
Lawrence Gowing	Historian	21-Apr-1918	5-Feb-1991	Art historian, biographer of Vermeer
Kate Greenaway	Artist	17-Mar-1846	6-Nov-1901	British illustrator
Barbara Hepworth	Sculptor	10-Jan-1903	20-May-1975	British abstract sculptor
Oliver Herford	Poet	3-Dec-1863	5-Jul-1935	Cupid's Encyclopedia
Damien Hirst	Artist	1965		Animal slices in formalin as art
William Hogarth	Engraver	10-Nov-1697	26-Oct-1764	A Rake's Progress
John Hoppner	Painter	4-Apr-1758	23-Jan-1810	English portrait painter
John Callcott Horsley	Painter	29-Jan-1817	18-Oct-1903	Designed first Christmas card
William Holman Hunt	Painter	2-Apr-1827	7-Sep-1910	British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Sir Thomas Lawrence	Painter	13-Apr-1769	7-Jan-1830	English portrait painter
Edward Lear	Poet	12-May-1812	29-Jan-1888	The Owl and the Pussycat
Frederick Leighton	Painter	31-Dec-1830	25-Jan-1896	Classical Victorian English painter
Wyndham Lewis	Painter	18-Nov-1882	7-Mar-1957	Vorticist movement
George du Maurier	Artist	6-Mar-1834	6-Oct-1896	British caricaturist, Punch
Andrew McKenzie	Musician	11-May-1963		The Hafler Trio
John Everett Millais	Painter	8-Jun-1829	13-Aug-1896	British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Albert Moore	Painter	4-Sep-1841	25-Sep-1893	English classicist painter
Henry Moore	Sculptor	30-Jul-1898	31-Aug-1986	20th c. English humanist sculptor
Evelyn De Morgan	Painter	30-Aug-1855	1919	British Pre-Raphaelite painter
William Morris	Artist	24-Mar-1834	3-Oct-1896	Arts and Crafts Movement
Isaac Oliver	Painter	c. 1556	2-Oct-1617	English miniature painter
Peter Oliver	Painter	1594	1647	English miniature painter
John Opie	Painter	May-1761	9-Apr-1807	English portrait painter
Tony Oxley	Musician	15-Jun-1938		Free improv pioneer
Samuel Palmer	Painter	27-Jan-1805	24-May-1881	English landscape painter
Beatrix Potter	Artist	28-Jul-1866	22-Dec-1943	Peter Rabbit
Sir Edward Poynter	Painter	20-Mar-1836	26-Jul-1919	British Neo-Classical painter
Arthur Rackham	Artist	19-Sep-1867	6-Sep-1939	British Golden Age children's book illustrator
Joshua Reynolds	Painter	16-Jul-1723	23-Feb-1792	English portraitist
Mark Roberts	Artist	12-Dec-1964		Serial Streaker at Superbowl XXXVIII
Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Painter	12-May-1828	9-Apr-1882	English pre-Raphaelite painter
Thomas Rowlandson	Artist	1756	12-Apr-1827	English caricaturist
John Russell	Painter	29-Mar-1745	20-Apr-1806	English portrait painter
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys	Painter	1-May-1829	25-Jun-1904	Pre-Raphaelite British painter
"Legs" Larry Smith	Musician	18-Jan-1944		Hello Sausage
Steven Stapleton	Musician	3-Feb-1957		Nurse With Wound
Alfred Stevens	Sculptor	28-Jan-1818	1-May-1875	Monument to Wellington
Nicholas Stone	Sculptor	1586	24-Aug-1647	Prominent 17th c. English sculptor-mason
Thomas Stothard	Painter	17-Aug-1755	27-Apr-1834	English subject painter
Sir John Tenniel	Artist	28-Feb-1820	25-Feb-1914	Illustrator for Punch
David Tibet	Musician	5-Mar-1960		Current 93
J. M. W. Turner	Painter	23-Apr-1775	19-Dec-1851	Romanticist English lanscape painter
Louis Wain	Painter	5-Aug-1860	4-Jul-1939	The Man Who Drew Cats
Lalla Ward	Actor	28-Jun-1951		Romana #2 from Doctor Who
John William Waterhouse	Painter	6-Apr-1849	10-Feb-1917	British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Josiah Wedgwood	Artist	1730	3-Jan-1795	Greatest potter of all time
Benjamin West	Painter	10-Oct-1738	10-Mar-1820	British-American portrait, scene painter
Edward Whymper	Explorer	27-Apr-1840	16-Sep-1911	Scrambles among the Alps
Patrick Woodroffe	Artist	1940		English fantasy artist

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