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Baptized c.April 6, 1849 • Rome • Italy
Died February 10, 1917 • London • England

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Waterhouse, John William: “I Am Half Sick of Shadows,” said the Lady of Shalott
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Brown, Ford Madox: Pretty Baa-Lambs
Ford Madox Brown
British painter
Hunt, William Holman
William Holman Hunt
British painter
John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais
British painter
Edward Burne-Jones: The Love Song
Edward Burne-Jones
British painter
Joseph Severn
artist
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Self-portrait by John Constable
John Constable
British artist
Joshua Reynolds: self-portrait
Joshua Reynolds
British painter
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
Roger Fry
British art critic and painter
Anthony Blunt
British art historian and spy
Clive Bell
British critic
Charles Locke Eastlake
British author
Graham Sutherland.
Graham Sutherland
British artist
Scott, Sir Peter Markham
Sir Peter Markham Scott
British conservationist and artist
Greta Bridge, watercolour by John Sell Cotman, c. 1805; in the British Museum.
John Sell Cotman
British painter
Lowry, L.S.
L.S. Lowry
British painter
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake
British painter

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