Alphonse Mucha was a Czech artist whose flowing posters of women framed by flowers and halos came to define the Art Nouveau style in Paris.

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder was a pioneer of Dutch flower painting, known for richly detailed bouquets of blooms that never flowered at the same time.

Arthur Dove was one of the first American abstract painters, drawing his organic shapes and colours from nature.

August Macke was a German Expressionist and member of Der Blaue Reiter, known for bright, harmonious scenes of everyday life. He died in the First World War at 27.

Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionism. He painted outdoors to capture changing light and atmosphere, from garden scenes to his famous water lilies at Giverny.

E.A. Séguy was a French designer who published richly coloured pattern portfolios of flowers, insects and ornament in the early 20th century.

Edvard Weie was a Danish painter who helped introduce modern colourist painting in Denmark, often working with mythological themes.

Edward Penfield was a pioneer of the American art poster in the 1890s, known for his flat colours and clean, graphic compositions.

George Barbier was a leading French illustrator of the Art Deco era, known for elegant fashion plates and theatrical scenes.

is an American contemporary artist known for his distinctive fusion of figuration, abstraction and art-historical references. His invented characters explore the complexity of human emotion, often balancing the grotesque, the comic and the beautiful within a single image.

Georges Seurat developed pointillism, building images from small dots of pure colour. His short career produced some of the most recognisable paintings of the 19th century.

Gustav Klimt was a founder of the Vienna Secession. His decorative, often gold-leafed paintings blend ornament, sensuality and symbolism.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captured the nightlife of Montmartre in paintings and posters that helped turn the poster into an art form.

Henri Matisse was a leader of Fauvism and one of the great colourists of modern art, from early paintings to his late paper cut-outs.

Jay van Everen was a Dutch painter and early pioneer of abstract art in the Netherlands, working with rhythmic geometric forms.

Johann Georg van Caspel was a Dutch poster designer of the Art Nouveau period, known for elegant advertising posters featuring women.

John Singer Sargent was an American painter born in Florence, celebrated for his portraits and his loose, light-filled watercolours of Venice and the Mediterranean.

Juan Gris was a Spanish painter who worked in Paris and became one of the key figures of Cubism, known for his clear, structured still lifes.

Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Edo period. His woodblock series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji made him one of the most influential artists in the world.

Brian Donnelly, known professionally as KAWS, is an American artist and designer whose work centers on repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs, some dating back to the beginning of his career in the 1990s.[1] He initially painted these figures in 2D and later realized in 3D. Some of his characters are his own creations while others are reworked versions of existing icons.

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, inventor and scientist, and one of the defining figures of the High Renaissance.

Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer, best known for his stained glass and lamps in the Art Nouveau style.

Otto Eckmann was a German painter and graphic designer and a key figure of Jugendstil, the German form of Art Nouveau.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a leading French Impressionist known for warm, luminous scenes of people, gardens and everyday Parisian life.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was the leading Flemish painter of the 16th century, known for crowded landscapes and lively scenes of peasant life.

Robert Delaunay co-founded Orphism, a colourful branch of Cubism. The Eiffel Tower was one of his favourite subjects.

Sandro Botticelli was a Florentine painter of the Early Renaissance, known for graceful figures and works such as The Birth of Venus.

Theo van Hoytema was a Dutch artist and lithographer known for his calendars, picture books and finely observed birds and landscapes.

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter whose expressive brushwork and bold colour changed the course of modern art. In roughly ten years of work he made around 900 paintings, many of them in the south of France.

Wassily Kandinsky is widely credited as a pioneer of abstract art. He linked colour and form to music and taught at the Bauhaus.

Will H. Bradley was an American illustrator and typographer whose posters helped bring Art Nouveau to the United States.

Yamamura Toyonari, also known as Yamamura Kōka, was a Japanese printmaker of the shin-hanga movement, known for scenes of modern life and kabuki actors.