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
Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church College from the 1850s to 1891, had a duaghter in 1852 he named Alice Pleasance Liddell. The Liddell family struck up a friendship with a mathematics professor named Charles Dodgson, who would regale the Liddell sisters with elaborate fantasy tales on their boating trips down Oxford's rivers. Little Alice begged Dodgson to write some of them down, and he did, using the pename Lewis Carroll, casting a precocious seven-year old girl named "Allice" as the protagonist, and eventually publishing Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.