Charles Despiau is celebrated as one of the leading lights of French early 20th-century sculpture, who sought a new route for sculpture and developed a distinctive classicising style.

Famous for repeating the same model with only slight variations, Despiau was born on November 4, 1874, at Mont-de-Marsan, Landes.

Annibale Carracci is acclaimed as one of the most influential Italian Baroque painters of the late 16^th and early 17^th century.

A vital force in pioneering the style of “idealized realism”, Carracci was born in Bologna on November 3, 1560, into a humble, working-class family.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin is celebrated as one of the most important artists of the 18^th century as well as one of the greatest masters of Still Life in the history of French art.

Venerated as the master of genre painting, Chardin was born in Paris on November 2, 1699, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left his native quarter of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Antonio Canova is highly acclaimed as one of the greatest exponents of Neoclassicism and the most brilliant sculptor in Europe in the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries.

Revered as ‘the supreme minister of beauty', Canova was born on November 1, 1757, in Possagno, a small village in the Republic of Venice.

Helmut Newton is celebrated as one of the most influential photographers of all time, whose subversive approach to subject matter and form brought an edge to his editorial spreads.

 Born Helmut Neustädter into a Jewish family in Berlin on October 31, 1920, Helmut Newton dubbed the “King of Kink”.

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.

Vasilyevich Vereshchagin is acclaimed as one of the most distinguished Russian battle painters of the time, and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized outside his home country.

Regarded as one of the great master painters of Orientalism, Vereshchagin was born on October 26, 1842, in an aristocrat family, in the city of Cherepovets in the Vologda region of Russia.

Ismail Gulgee is celebrated as a globally famous Pakistani painter, whose Arabic calligraphy inspired abstract paintings and portrait paintings are highly admired in Islamic states and the rest of the world as well.

One of Pakistan's best-known painters, Gulgee was born on October 25, 1926, in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Eugène Fromentin is celebrated as one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, and a great writer whose descriptions of paintings are the last word in the art of writing.

One of the cleverest modern harmonists of Academic Classicism, Fromentin was born on October 24, 1820, in La Rochelle, France.

Jean-Louis Forain is highly revered for his numerous drawings chronicling and commenting on Parisian city life at the end of the 19^th century.

Celebrated as one of the most significant living artists during his time, Forain was born on October 23, 1852, in Reims, Marne, and during his childhood, his family moved to Paris.

Aelbert Jacobszoon Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Baroque period, whose Italianate landscapes of the Dutch countryside is revered for their poetic use of light and atmosphere.

Belonging to the most famous family of painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Cuyp was born on October 20, 1620, in Dordrecht, Netherlands.