Giuseppe Fazio, Actor and director. Sitter in 1 portrait. Caitlin Macnamara Thomas (1913-1994), Wife of Dylan Thomas. Sitter in 10 portraits.

Born into slavery around 1743, and known as Toussaint de Bréda on the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, Toussaint L'Ouverture's leadership of the Haitian Revolution has made him an ...

William Callow was a painter of landscapes, buildings and seascapes. He was articled at the age of eleven to the engraver Theodore Fielding. He went to Paris in 1829, where he worked under Newton ...

Courtaulds Professor of Polymer Chemistry at Durham and leader of the University of Durham Nanotechnology programme. Feast was formerly the Director of the IRC (Interdisciplinary Research Centre) in ...

Younghusband's interests lay in problems of the poor, and whilst a full-time lecturer at the London School of Economics (1933-57), she devoted her spare time to the Citizens' Advice Bureaux, care ...

Beau Nash, born Richard Nash, was a celebrated dandy and leader of fashion in eighteenth-century Britain. Nash served as an army officer and was then called to the Bar, but made little of either ...

The first Chinese Minister to be posted to a western country. He was a prominent member of China's Self-Strengthening Movement which brought about a number of institutional reforms that were initiated ...

Minnie Cohen studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London and in Paris under Benjamin Constant, Puvis de Chavannes and Edouard Bordes. Primarily a portrait painter, she lived in London and exhibited ...

Matthew Brady, also known as 'Mr Lincoln's cameraman' for his famous images of the American Civil War, is the best-known American photographer of the nineteenth century. Born in New York, he opened ...

The figurative wood carvings, mainly human heads, for which Jilly Sutton has become known are characterised by their large size, their chalky white and grainy surface texture. Jilly Sutton trained as ...

James Hogg was born on a farm in Selkirkshire and worked as a shepherd. His employer lent him books and he began to write, publishing a slim volume of poems in 1801. In 1810, he moved to Edinburgh and ...

Sir Henry Hobart was an English judge and politician. He trained in the law and was called to the Bar in 1584. Hobart entered Parliament as an MP in 1588. Hobart was Steward of Norwich in 1595, made ...