The American photographer and artist, William Henry Jackson, is celebrated as one of the most respected landscape photographers of the American West, whose photographs helped popularize the region.
The great-great nephew of Samuel Wilson, Jackson was born in Keeseville, New York, on April 4, 1843.
The prolific French caricaturist, painter and sculptor, Honore Daumier, is revered for his cartoons and drawings focusing on the foibles of 19th-century France.
Known as the “Michelangelo of Caricature”, Daumier was born on February 26, 1808, in the South of France in the port city of Marseille.