Italian Renaissance sculptor to the Kings and Queens of England (that's his bust of King Henry VII above)
German portraitist who painted some of the seminal figures of the British Renaissance
An English painter in the Flemish mold, depicting wonderful slices of life in early 18C England
Arguably the greatest artist who ever lived, part of the Holy Trinity of Italian Renaissance masters
One of the greatest painters of the early Renaissance was nothing if not a man of his times
There is no place in the United Kingdom that is more than 113km (70 miles) from the sea. The most landlocked place in all of Britain? Coton in the Elms, an English village of around 900 souls in Derbyshire, just NE of Birmingham.