- Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (sometimes erroneously pronounced [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡɒf] in British English and [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡoʊ] in US English; the correct Dutch pronunciation is) (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. Van Gogh spent his early life working for a firm of art dealers. - Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 - November 3, 1954) was a French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century. - Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, … - Augustus John
Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (January 4, 1878 - October 31, 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in England. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse. - Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colouristic style. Through the use of clear, slow-drying oil paints, Giovanni created deep, rich tints and detailed shadings. - William Daniell
William Daniell (1769-1837) was a British draughtsman. Daniell was fourteen when he accompanied his uncle Thomas Daniell to India. His publications, engraved in aquatint, were * "Voyage to India" * "Zoography" * "Animated Nature" * "Views of London" * "Views of Bootan", a work prepared from his uncles sketches; and * "A Voyage Round Great Britain", which occupied him several years. - John Flaxman
John Flaxman (July 6, 1755 - December 7, 1826), was an English sculptor and draughtsman. He was born in York. His father was also named John, after an ancestor who, according to family tradition, had fought for Parliament at the Battle of Naseby, and afterwards settled as a carrier or farmer in Buckinghamshire. John Flaxman the father was well known as a moulder and seller of plaster casts at the sign of the Golden Head, New Street, Covent Garden, London. - Henry Fuseli
Henry Fuseli (February 7, 1741 - April 16, 1825) was a British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin. - Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg (April 2, 1928 - March 2, 1991) was a French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's varied style and individuality made him difficult to categorize. Although famous in France for many years, he did not achieve his first No. 1 album until 1979, when he released "Aux Armes et caetera" more than twenty years after his music career had begun. But since the 1980s, his legacy has been firmly established. - Thomas Girtin
Thomas Girtin, was an English painter and etcher, who played a key role in establishing watercolour as a reputable art form. He was born in Southwark, London, the son of a well-to-do brushmaker of Huguenot descent in. His father died while Thomas was a child, and the widow married a Mr.Vaughan, a pattern-draughtsman. Girtin learnt drawing as a boy (attending classes with Thomas Malton), and was apprenticed to Edward Dayes (1763-1804), a topographical watercolourist. - Jim Morahan
Jim Morahan (1902 - 1976) was a British art director. He began his career in film in 1936. He worked in a number of prominent British productions in the 1940s and 1950s, such as "Scott of the Antarctic" (1948), "Whisky Galore!" (1949), "The Blue Lamp" (1950), "The Man in the White Suit" (1951), "The Cruel Sea" (1953), "The Ladykillers" (1955) and "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" (1965). - George Edwards
Sir George Robert Edwards, OM, CBE, FRS, DL (born 9 July 1908 in Highams Park, England; died 2 March 2003 in Guildford, England) was a British aircraft designer and industrialist. Beginning as a design draughtsman, in 1945 he became the Chief Designer of the Vickers-Armstrong team that produced the Viking, Valetta, Varsity, Viscount and Valiant. He later became Managing Director of the company, supervising the development of the Vanguard, VC-10 and TSR-2. - Charles Heaphy
Major Charles Heaphy VC (1820 - August 3, 1881) was a New Zealand explorer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Charles Heaphy was just seventeen years old when he was appointed as resident Artist and Surveyor to the first New Zealand Company expedition to New Zealand, … - Jane Birkin
Jane Mallory Birkin OBE (born 14 December 1946) is an actress and singer. Birkin was born in London, England to David Birkin, a Royal Navy commander and World War II espionage hero, and Judy Campbell, an actress in Noel Coward musicals. Her great aunt was Freda Dudley Ward, a mistress of Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. - Gwen John
Gwen John (June 22, 1876 - September 18, 1939) was a Welsh artist. - Ken Adam
Sir Ken Adam (born 5 February, 1921 as Klaus Adam) is a production designer most famous for his set designs for the early films in the James Bond series. - Donald Friend
Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (6 February 1915 - 16 August 1989) was an Australian artist, writer and diarist. Born in Sydney, precociously talented both as an artist and a writer, Friend grew up in the artistic circle of his bohemian mother. He studied with Sydney Long (1931) and Dattilo Rubbo (1934-1935), and later in London (1936-1937) at the Westminster Art School with Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky. - Pierre Paul Prud'Hon
Pierre Paul Prud'hon (April 4 1758 - February 16 1823) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits. Prud'hon was at times clearly influenced by Neo-classicism, at other times by Romanticism. Appreciated by other artists and writers like Stendhal, Delacroix, Millet and Baudelaire for his chiaroscuro and convincing realism, he is probably most famous for his "Crucifixion" (1822), which he painted for St. - Thomas Malton
Thomas Malton (1748-1804) was the son of the architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton Snr. Like his brother James Malton he worked in the office of the celebrated Irish architect James Gandon. Malton also ran a drawing-school were he taught perspective drawing to J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Girtin. - Bartholomeus Spranger
Bartholomeus (Bartholomaeus) Spranger was a Flemish Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He was born in Antwerp. In 1565, he traveled to Paris and Italy after finishing his studies. He worked on wall paintings in various churches. At Rome, Pope Pius V appointed him court painter in 1570. In 1581 he was appointed to the Prague court of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. Hendrik Goltzius made engravings of his paintings, thus increasing Spranger's fame. - Gordon Jackson
Gordon Cameron Jackson OBE (19 December 1923 - 15 January 1990) was an Emmy Award winning Scottish actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Hudson in "Upstairs, Downstairs" and George Cowley, the head of CI5, in "The Professionals". - Giovanni Battista Cipriani
Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785), Italian painter and engraver, Pistoiese by descent, was born in Florence. - Frank Hampson
Frank Hampson (21 December 1918 - July 1985) was an illustrator and is best known for being the creator and artist of Dan Dare and other characters in the British boys' comic, the "Eagle", to which he contributed between 1950 and 1959. He was born at 488 Audenshaw Road, Audenshaw, near to Manchester (now Tameside). His brother Eric was killed in the Second World War. In April 2006, his sister Margaret was still living in Southport, … - Simon de Vlieger
Simon de Vlieger (c. 1601m, Rotterdam - buried Mar 13 1653, Weesp) was a Dutch designer, draughtsman, and painter, most famous for his marine paintings. Born in Rotterdam, de Vlieger moved in 1634 to Delft, where he joined the Guild of Saint Luke, and then to Amsterdam in 1638, though he maintained a house in Rotterdam until 1650 when he moved to Weesp. In the 1630s and 1640s he was one of the best-known Dutch maritime painters. - Otto van Veen
Otto van Veen, also known by his Latinized name Otto Venius or Octavius Vaenius, ("c". 1556 – May 6, 1629) was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is known for running a large studio in Antwerp, producing several emblem books, and for being, from 1594 or 1595 until 1598, Peter Paul Rubens's teacher. - Frank Dobson
Frank Dobson (1888-1963) was a British artist and sculptor. Dobson began as a painter, and his early work was influenced by cubism, vorticism, and futurism. After World War I, however, he turned increasingly toward sculpture in a more or less realist style. While Dobson was one of the most esteemed artists of his time, after his death his reputation declined with the move towards postmodernism and conceptual art. However, in recent years a revival has begun. - Romeyn de Hooghe
Romeyn de Hooghe (ca. Sepember 8, 1645, Amsterdam - June 10, 1708, Haarlem) was an important and prolific late Dutch Baroque engraver and caricaturist. De Hooghe was skilled as an etcher, draughtsman, painter, sculptor and medalist. He is best known for political caricatures of Louis XIV and propagandistic prints supporting William of Orange. During his career, de Hooghe produced over 3500 prints. - William Kellner
William Kellner (1900 - 1996) was an Austrian-born art director who worked primarily on British films in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career as a draughtsman working for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on their films "A Canterbury Tale" (1944) and "I Know Where I'm Going!" (1945) and on David Lean's "Brief Encounter" in 1946. - Richard Earlom
Richard Earlom (1742-1822), English mezzotint engraver, was born and died in London. His natural faculty for art appears to have been first called into exercise by admiration for the lord mayor's state coach, just decorated by Giovanni Battista Cipriani. He tried to copy the paintings, and was sent to study under Cipriani. He displayed great skill as a draughtsman, and at the same time acquired without assistance the art of engraving in mezzotint. - Vittorio Jano
Vittorio Jano (April 22, 1891 - March 13, 1965) was a famed Italian automobile designer of Hungarian descent from the 1920s through 1960s. Jano was born "Viktor János" in San Giorgio Canavese, in Piedmont, to Hungarian immigrants, whom arrived there several years before the birth of Jano. He began his career at Fiat in 1911 under Luigi Bazzi. He moved with Bazzi to Alfa Romeo in 1923 and designed the Alfa Romeo P2. The P2 was notorious, winning its first race, … - George Scharf
Sir George Scharf KCB (December 16, 1820 - April 19, 1895), British art critic, was born in London, the son of George Scharf, a Bavarian miniature painter who settled in England in 1816 and died in 1860. He studied in the schools of the Royal Academy. In 1840 he accompanied Sir Charles Fellows to Asia Minor, and in 1843 acted as draughtsman to a government expedition to the same country. - Marten de Vos
Marten de Vos, also Maarten, was a leading Antwerp painter and draughtsman in the late sixteenth century. He had, like Frans Floris, travelled to Italy and adopted the mannerist style popular at the time. He was also highly influenced by the colors of Venetian painting, and might have worked in the studio of Tintoretto. - Phyllis Pearsall
Phyllis Pearsall, MBE (1906-1996) was a distinguished painter and writer, and the creator of the A to Z map of London. - Philipp Veit
Philipp Veit (13 February 1793 - 18 December 1877) was a German Romantic painter. To Veit is due the credit of having been the first to revive the almost forgotten technique of fresco painting. Veit was born in Berlin, Prussia. He was the son of Simon Veit and his wife Dorothea, daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, who subsequently left him to marry Friedrich Schlegel. Veit received his first art education in Dresden and Vienna. - Cass Gilbert
Cass Gilbert (November 29, 1859 - May 17, 1934) was a pioneering American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers in works like the Woolworth Building, Gilbert was also responsible for numerous museums and libraries (Saint Louis Art Museum), state capitol buildings (the Minnesota and West Virginia State Capitols, for example) as well as public architectural icons like the United States Supreme Court building. - Pierre Plantard
Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard (March 18, 1920 - February 3, 2000) was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the hoax of the Priory of Sion, which he established to manufacture evidence that he had a legitimate claim to the French throne. This deception later inspired a series of BBC Two documentaries, the 1982 pseudohistory book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and the 2003 novel "The Da Vinci Code", among others. - James Malton
James Malton was an engraver and watercolourist, who once taught geometry and perspective and worked as a draughtsman in the office of the celebrated Irish architect James Gandon. He was the son of the architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton. James Malton is best known for "Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin", a highly acclaimed series of twenty-five engravings originally published between 1792 and 1799. - Wojciech Weiss
Wojciech Weiss was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman. Weiss was born in a Polish family in Bukovina to Stanisław Weiss and Maria Kopaczyńska. He gave up music training to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Leon Wyczółkowski. Weiss originally painted historical or mythological paintings, but later switched to Expressionism after being profoundly influenced by Stanisław Przybyszewski. Weiss later became a member of the Vienna Secession. - George Cattermole
George Cattermole (August 10, 1800 - July 24, 1868) was an English painter, chiefly in watercolours. He was born at Dickleburgh, near Diss, Norfolk. At the age of sixteen he began working as an architectural and topographical draughtsman; afterwards he contributed designs to be engraved in the annuals then so popular; thence he progressed into water-colour painting, becoming an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1822, and a full member in 1833. - Charles Garnier
Charles Garnier was a French architect, designer of the Paris Opéra and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo
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