Sir Samuel Luke Fildes RA (1843-1927) was an English painter and illustrator born at Liverpool and trained in the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools. At the age of seventeen Luke Fildes became a student at the Warrington School of Art. Fildes moved to South Kensington Art School where he met Hubert von Herkomer and Frank Holl. All three men became influenced by the work of Frederick Walker, the leader of the social realist movement in Britain.

Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849 - 1914), British painter, was born at Waal, in Bavaria, and eight years later was brought to England by his father, a wood-carver of great ability. He lived for some time at Southampton and in the school of art there began his art training; but in 1866 he entered upon a more serious course of study at the South Kensington Schools, and in 1869 exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy.

Fougasse was the pen name of Cyril Kenneth Bird CBE, one of the greatest British cartoonists of the 20th century. He was born in London on 17 December 1887 and died there on 11 June 1965. He was seriously injured at the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I and invalided out of the British Army (his pen name is based on the fougasse, a type of mine). He first contributed to "Punch" in 1916, while convalescing, …

Frank Holl (July 4, 1845 - July 31, 1888), English painter, was born in London, and was educated chiefly at University College School. He was a grandson of William Holl, an engraver of note, and the son of Francis Holl, ARA, another engraver, whose profession he originally intended to follow. Entering the Royal Academy schools as a probationer in painting in 1860, he rapidly progressed, winning silver and gold medals, …

William Black (November 13, 1841 - December 10, 1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland to Mr. and Mrs. James Black. He was educated with a view to being a landscape painter, a training that clearly influenced his literary life, and as a writer he became celebrated for the detailed and atmospheric descriptions of landscapes and seascapes in novels such as "White Wings: A Yachting Romance" (1880). At the age of twenty-three he went to London, …

Dr Henry Reginald Holland Hall MBE, FBA, FSA (30th September 1873 — 13th October 1930) was an English Egyptologist and historian. Henry R.H. Hall was the son of Sydney Hall, MVO, MA, a portrait painter and illustrator for "The Graphic" newspaper, and his wife Hannah Holland. He went to Merchant Taylors' School and showed an interest in history and ancient Egypt from an early age. By the age of 11 he wrote a history of Persia, …

Harry Furniss (March 26,1854-January 14,1925) was an artist and illustrator, born in Wexford, Ireland. His father was English and his mother Scottish, Furniss identifying himself as English. He was educated in Wesley College. His first job as an illustrator was for the "Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News", and when it was purchased by the owner of the "The Illustrated London News" he moved to that magazine.

Frank Reynolds (London, 1876 - April 1953) was a British artist. Son of an artist, he studied at Heatherley's School of Art. Reynolds had a drawing called "A provincial theatre company on tour" published in The Graphic on 30 November 1901. In 1906 he began contributing to Punch Magazine and was regularly published within its pages during World War I. He was well known for his many illustrations in several books by Charles Dickens, including David Copperfield (c1911), …

William Luson Thomas was an English wood engraver and the founder of various British newspapers. He worked as an engraver in Paris and also as an assistant to the well-known engraver William James Linton. Thomas was a friend of Charles Dickens and believed in social reform. At one time he worked for the Illustrated London News, and became convinced that pictures could have a powerful influence on public opinion, especially on political issues.

Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836, India - 1875, England) was a British painter (oil and watercolours) and illustrator. His work was varied and was revered during the mid-19th century. He traveled to America and Russia, creating illustrations for "The Graphic" and for numerous books, including "The Arabian Nights" and "Don Quixote". His work was strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Percy Macquoid was a theatrical designer and a collector and connoisseur of English furniture, and the author of articles, largely for "Country Life", and of four books on the history of English furniture, the first major survey of the subject, which have been reprinted and are still of use today: "The Age of Oak", "The Age of Walnut", "The Age of Mahogany" and "The Age of Satinwood", ending his surveys about the year 1800.

William Comyns Beaumont, also known as Comyns Beaumont was a British journalist, author, and lecturer. Beaumont was a staff writer for the "Daily Mail" and eventually became editor of the "Bystander" in 1903 and then "The Graphic" in 1932. Beaumont was an eccentric with several unusual beliefs, many of which were later mirrored by Immanuel Velikovsky's works.

John Strange Winter was the pen-name of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (born January 13, 1856, York; died 1911), an English novelist. She was the daughter of Reverent H. V. Palmer, rector of St Margarets, York. She early began to write fiction for different magazines, producing sentimental stories, chiefly of army life. Two of these, "Booties Baby" and Hoe p-la (???), which appeared originally in "The Graphic" in 1885, …

George Arthur Fripp was a British artist who specialised in watercolours. He was a grandson of the artist Nicholas Pocock and brother of the painter Alfred Downing Fripp. Edcuated in Bristol, Birmingham and Leamington, he had lessons in oil painting from James Baker Pyne and first exhibited at the Bristol Society of Artists in 1832. In 1834 he accompanied the Bristol artist William James Müller on a sketching tour of Europe, …

Arthur Comfort (1864-1935) was a master wood engraver at "The Graphic" in London and art teacher in Halifax.