Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

male, deceased (1825)
Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the...
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

male, deceased (1971)
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influential composer of...
Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova

male, deceased (1822)
Antonio Canova (November 1, 1757 - October 13, 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered...
Robert Adam

Robert Adam

male, deceased (1792)
Robert Adam (3 July 1728 - 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

male, deceased (1965)
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Li...
Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

male, deceased (1744)
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his...
Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

male, deceased (1745)
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works...
John Milton

John Milton

male, deceased (1674)
John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed...
John Dryden

John Dryden

male, deceased (1700)
John Dryden (August 19 {August 9 O.S.1631 – May 12 {May 1 O.S.}, 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator and pl...
Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs

male, deceased (1779)
Anton Raphael Mengs (March 12, 1728 - June 29, 1779) was an eminent German painter, active in Rome, Madrid, and Saxony, who became one of the...