Francis Bacon is celebrated as one of the most unique, engaging figurative painters to emerge during the post-war period, whose grotesque imagery served as a method of exploring nihilism and death at a time when Europe had been repeatedly savaged by war.

One of the most successful British painters of the twentieth century, Bacon was born on October 28, 1909, in Dublin, Ireland.

Allan Ramsay is celebrated as one of the foremost 18^th-century British portraitists.

Best-known for his natural style portraiture, Ramsay was born on October 13, 1713, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Reviving the medieval art through passionate imagination and sensuality, the British painter, poet and translator, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is famous for founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of painters treating religious, moral, and medieval subjects in a nonacademic manner.

Best-known for influencing the European Symbolists and inspiring the second generation of artists and writers, Rossetti was born on May 12, 1828, in London, England, to English-Italian parents.