Sir Thomas Lawrence: The Ten-Year-Old Who Grew Up to Paint Every King in Europe
A self-taught child prodigy who supported his whole family with portraits before he was a teenager — and ended up the most fashionable painter on the continent, adored, knighted, and hopelessly in debt. Meet Sir Thomas Lawrence, the boy from the inn who grew up to paint every king in Europe.
Henry Fuseli: The Swiss Painter Who Invented the Horror Movie 150 Years Early
A demon crouched on a sleeping woman's chest, a ghostly horse bursting through the curtains — Henry Fuseli painted our nightmares before anyone thought nightmares were worth painting. Meet the sharp-tongued Swiss priest-turned-painter who made dreams and dread into great art, and inspired William Blake.