Curated playlist
English male painters
- Lucas HorenboutA miniature long taken for Holbein's self-portrait is now attributed to Lucas Horenbout.
- John Gilbert (painter)Self-taught illustrator John Gilbert made over two thousand wood-engravings for the Illustrated London News.
- Joseph Wright of DerbyJoseph Wright of Derby painted a bird gasping in an air pump. His 1768 scene turned a science experiment into drama.
- William HogarthHogarth's 1751 print Gin Lane shows a mother letting her baby fall to its death. The prints supported the Gin Act 1751.
- Marcus Gheeraerts the YoungerMarcus Gheeraerts the Younger once painted Elizabeth I standing on a map of England, with her feet planted on the county of Oxfordshire. He was a Flemish painter working at the Tudor court, and a later assessment called him "the most…
- Clive BarkerUnhappy with how others filmed his screenplays, Clive Barker directed Hellraiser himself. It opened in 1987.
- James ThornhillJames Thornhill became the first native-born English artist to be knighted. The painter received the honor in May 1720.
- Peter Blake (artist)Peter Blake was paid a one-off two hundred pounds for the Sgt. Pepper album cover. He has complained ever since.
- John RuskinA jury awarded painter Whistler one farthing in his libel suit against critic John Ruskin.
- William Powell FrithIn 1858, crowds pressing to see William Powell Frith's new painting forced officials to add a rail.
- Herbert James DraperA fruit merchant's son from Covent Garden won gold in Paris for The Lament for Icarus.
- William Blake RichmondWilliam Blake Richmond spent 1891 to 1904 covering part of St Paul's Cathedral in mosaics.
- Nicholas HilliardNicholas Hilliard, miniature painter to Elizabeth I, was jailed for debt in 1617.
- John Charles DollmanJohn Charles Dollman painted Lawrence Oates walking out of a tent in Antarctica to die. It was commissioned in 1913.
- Joseph FaringtonJoseph Farington died on the last day of 1821 by falling down church steps in Didsbury. His diary outlasted him.
- Richard Hamilton (artist)Richard Hamilton defined pop art in a 1957 letter to two architects. He called it expendable, witty and Big Business.
- Syd BarrettSyd Barrett walked into Abbey Road Studios on the 5th of June 1975, and the men inside did not know him. He had shaved off his hair and even his eyebrows, and he was overweight. He was 29. The musicians were Pink Floyd, the band he had…