Curated category
English male painters
- Lucas HorenboutLucas Horenbout arrived in England sometime in the mid-1520s carrying a tradition that had almost nowhere else to go. He had grown up in Ghent, trained by a…
- John Gilbert (painter)John Gilbert was born on the 21st of July 1817 in Blackheath, Surrey, and by the time he died on the 5th of October 1897, he had produced over two thousand…
- Joseph Wright of DerbyJoseph Wright was born on the 3rd of September 1734 in a house located at 28 Irongate, Derby. His father John Wright served as the town clerk and worked as…
- William HogarthWilliam Hogarth told people his pictures were meant to be read, not just looked at. A country girl arrives in London and meets a procuratress.
- Marcus Gheeraerts the YoungerMarcus Gheeraerts the Younger was born in Bruges around 1561 or 1562. His father Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder fled to England with his son to escape…
- Clive BarkerClive Barker was three years old when he saw a man fall out of the sky. At an air show in Liverpool, the French skydiver Leo Valentin plummeted to the ground…
- James ThornhillJames Thornhill was knighted on the 2nd of May 1720, becoming the first native-born English artist ever to receive that honor.
- Peter Blake (artist)Peter Blake was born in Dartford, Kent, on the 25th of June 1932, and he would go on to create one of the most recognised images of the twentieth century.
- John RuskinJohn Ruskin was born on the 8th of February 1819 at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, London, into a household where a wine importer father read Byron…
- William Powell FrithWilliam Powell Frith was born in Aldfield, near Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire on the 9th of January 1819. He had originally intended to be an…
- Herbert James DraperHerbert James Draper was born in 1863 in Covent Garden, London, the seventh child and only son of a fruit merchant. His father, John James Draper, and his…
- William Blake RichmondWilliam Blake Richmond carried a poet's name into a painter's life. Born on the 29th of November 1842 in Marylebone, he was named after the poet William…
- Nicholas HilliardNicholas Hilliard, the English goldsmith and miniature painter born in Exeter around 1547, spent forty-five years at the heart of two royal courts without…
- John Charles DollmanJohn Charles Dollman was born in Hove on the 6th of May 1851, and by the time he died in London on the 11th of December 1934, he had spent more than four…
- Joseph FaringtonJoseph Farington died on the last day of 1821 by falling down a church steps in Didsbury, Manchester. He had gone there for a New Year's Eve service.
- Richard Hamilton (artist)Richard William Hamilton arrived in the world on the 24th of February 1922 within the London district of Pimlico. He left school without any formal…