Having been Clerk and Rector of Barnsley, Gloucestershire, and also Master of the Hospital of Saint Nicholas, in Sarum, Wiltshire, Howman was a keen artist. Famed for his paleontological watercolours and etchings, he also had a keen eye for architectural detail, and personally made designs for renovations he carried out to his rectory.

A Scottish artist, illustrator, and sculptor, Paton became a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1847, and was made a fellow in 1850. After meeting Millais while studying in London, he rejected a formal invite to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and had a strong interest in Scottish folklore and Celtic mythology.

Apprenticed to a wood engraver from 1842 to 1847, Keene worked for Punch from 1851 to 1890. His illustrations often depicted generalised and satirised characters from contemporary Victorian society; his authentic style, lacking in contemporary cliches, was praised by Sickert . From 1863, he was an early member of the Arts Club in Mayfair.

Born in Brussels, Fraipont produced illustrations for a number of publications during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also painted numerous posters for French transport companies. During the First World War, he was commissioned by L'Illustration to create a series of illustrations of destroyed landmarks across Belgium and France.

Having studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Cabanel and Fernand Cormon, Fouqueray was appointed Peintre de La Marine in 1908, allowing him to travel with the French navy to the French colonial possessions in Africa and South-East Asia. His style was greatly influenced by the French Academic tradition.

Born in London, Hall began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1890, and was elected to it in 1920. He also frequently exhibited at the Fine Arts Society and the Leicester Galleries, having had his exhibition at the Dowdeswell Gallery in 1898. He was well known for his watercolours and etchings of British landscape scenes.

Born in London, and later moving to Australia in 1923, Medland was well known for her published illustrations of birds. She was commissioned by the Australian Museum in 1925 to create a number of postcard designs, having first illustrated The Birds Of The British Isles (London, 1906). She continued to produce illustrations until her death.

A Swedish artist, Bergstrom studied in Gothenburg, Paris, and Italy. He was known for his traditional oil portraits and landscape scenes, while also having success with etchings and woodcuts. In 1914 he was appointed curator of Allmänna Konstförening (The Swedish Association for Art), and received many national awards throughout his life.

Known for his fashion-related illustrations in the 1920s and 1930s, Polack's art is typical of the developments of the Art-Deco style that occurred during the inter-war period in France. He created graphics and illustrations for a number of leading publications and businesses.

De Belay's style changed throughout his career - originally being influenced by the Romantic tradition in his youth, his paintings of Breton landscapes in the 1920s and Parisian life in the 1930s reflect the development of French impressionism in the early 20th century.

Born in Lewes in Sussex, Lawrence trained at King Edward VII School of Art, and went on to study at the Royal College of Art under William Rothenstein. During the First World War he served in the Tyneside Pioneers as a subaltern, seeing action at Bray and the Somme.

Born in Scarborough, Littlewood was taught at art school by Albert Strange and Richard E. Clark. Joining the 19th Royal Hussars (Queen Alexandra's Own) during the First World War, he later set up an advertising agency, and moved to Berkshire due to ill health in 1936 - working during the Second World War to work as a cartographer.

Originally from Devon, Atwell was the great niece of the artist Mabel Lucy Atwell. With her husband serving in the merchant navy, Atwell travelled extensively during the 1930s, and recorded her experiences through her art. Her art is held by a number of public collections, including by the National Trust.

Having studied drawing and architecture at the Leeds School of Art, Myerscough-Walker moved to London in 1928 to study at the Architectural Association. He also worked for the Royal Air Force, and was involved in the design and painting of cycloramas for the Link Trainer - an early form of fligh simulator.

Having taken evening classes at the Sheffield College of Art from 1923 to 1926, Askew moved to London in the 1930s. With his wife organising the exhibiting of his works while he served in the Second World War, he went on to split his time between London and Hertfordshire, where he became close friends with Henry and Irina Moore.

Born in Sheffield in 1925, Green studied architecture at the University of Sheffield during the late 1940s - the works of his which we offer all date from this period, and reflect the architectural principles that he was taught. He went on to practise as an architect in Nottingham in the 1960s and 1970s.

Going to Queen's College, Oxford, Walker later studied at the Croydon School of Art, and the Slade School of Fine Art under William Coldstream. He was a member of the Armed Forces' Art Society, and exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon.

Born in 1930, Huson studied at the Camberwell School of Art from 1945 to 1947 where he was taught by John Minton and William Townsend. Their influence is present within his views of London, with the ruinous and derelict structures mirroring the bombed-out houses in Minton’s wartime city scenes.

Born in London in 1974, Wiltshire’s masterful ability to capture cityscapes was recognised from an early age. Commissioned by Edward Heath to sketch Salisbury Cathedral when he was only eight, Wilshire drew A London Alphabet in 1984.