William Powell Frith 1819-1909 | Victorian Era painter

Frith was an english painter, specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian Era.
He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1852.
He has been described as the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth".

Lord Frederic Leighton 1830-1896 | Victorian Era painter

His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. Leighton was bearer of the shortest-lived peerage in history; after only one day his hereditary peerage ended with his death. Leighton was born in Scarborough to a family in the import and export business. He was educated at University College School, London. He then received his artistic training on the European continent, first from Eduard Von Steinle and then from Giovanni Costa. When in Florence, aged 24, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti, he painted the procession of the Cimabue Madonna through the Borgo Allegri. He lived in Paris from 1855 to 1859, where he met Ingres, Delacroix, Corot and Millet. In 1860, he moved to London, where he associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He designed Elizabeth Barrett Browning's tomb for Robert Browning in the English Cemetery, Florence in 1861. In 1864 he became an associate of the Royal Academy and in 1878 he became its President 1878–96. His 1877 sculpture, Athlete Wrestling with a Python, was considered at its time to inaugurate a renaissance in contemporary British sculpture, referred to as the New Sculpture.

George Frederic Watts 1817-1904 | Pre-Raphaelite/symbolist painter

Watts was a popular english victorian painter and sculptor associated with the symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language.

Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema 1836-1912 | Victorian painter

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Leeuwarden è stato un pittore olandese di nascita ma attivo nell'Inghilterra di epoca vittoriana. Artista dell'epoca del decadentismo, è conosciuto per i suoi ritratti di scene di vita nell'antichità - particolarmente quelle ambientate all'epoca pompeiana, sempre caratterizzate da romantico languore e raffinata indolenza, oltre che permeati da ricorrenti motivi floreali.