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An index of illustrators and artists to help you navigate our collection and enjoy some chance encounters along the way.
Artists whose names begin with 'B'
Albert Bailey, illustrator whose work appeared in The Bystander and The Tatler in the 1920s.
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Baird, Art Deco illustrator whose work appeared in The Sketch and The Bystander, late 1920s to early 1930s.
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Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (1887-1959), British cartoonist whose most famous creation was the character of curmudgeonly soldier Old Bill, published in The Bystander during World War One.
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Shirley Baker (1932-2014), British photographer, best known for her street photography in Salford and Manchester in the 1960s.
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George Barbier (1882-1932), French fashion illustrator and designer of theatre and ballet costumes, 1910s to early 1930s. Also wrote essays for influential fashion magazine Gazette du Bon Ton.
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William Barribal (1874-1952), British illustrator, designer and commercial artist.
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Henry Mayo Bateman (1887-1970), British humorous artist and cartoonist, especially known for his series 'The Man Who?' featuring comic reactions to social gaffes.
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Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), English illustrator, notably of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein.
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Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), English illustrator and leading light of the Aesthetic movement whose highly-stylised black ink drawings were hugely influential.
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Samuel Begg (1854-1936), British artist who worked principally for the Illustrated London News.
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Patrick Bellew (1905-1984), Irish cartoonist whose work appeared in The Tatler, The Bystander and Men Only in the 1930s. He later worked as a commercial artist in the US.
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John Benton-Harris, American-born photographer. Staff photographer for short-lived magazine London Life chronicling the Swinging Sixties. His documentary style images have featured in many one-man and group exhibitions.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), Italian sculptor, architect and city planner; he also painted small canvases, designed stage sets, theatrical machinery and decorative art objects. He is best known for establishing the Baroque style of sculpture, and for the design of various churches, fountains and public squares.
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Andrew Besley, British photographer, a specialist in the topography of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, with many years of experience.
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Alfred Bestall (1892-1986), British illustrator whose work appeared in The Tatler and Punch. Famously wrote and illustrated Rupert Bear stories taking over from creator Mary Tourtel.
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Molly Bishop (1911-1998), British illustrator and portrait painter, titled Lady Montagu-Douglas-Scott.
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Edmund Blampied (1886-1966), Channel Islands-born artist, lithographer and prolific illustrator.
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Douglas Percy Bliss (1900-1984), Scottish landscape artist. Established The Blackheath Society in the 1930s to preserve this area of south-east London.
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Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, c1445-1510), Italian Early Renaissance artist based in Florence. He painted religious and mythological subjects, as well as a few portraits. He is best known for The Birth of Venus and Primavera.
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Sophia May Bowley (1865-1960), English children's illustrator and writer. Elder sister of Ada Leonora Bowley, and like her worked for Raphael Tuck & Sons.
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Ada Leonora Bowley (1867-1954), English children's illustrator, flourished from the early 20th century to the 1920s. Younger sister of Sophia May Bowley, and like her, worked for Raphael Tuck & Sons.
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Tony Boxall (1929-2010), British amateur photographer best known for his photos of gypsy life in the 1960s. Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, 1969.
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Margaret Bradley (b. circa 1905), British illustrator and commercial artist, daughter of motoring correspondent William Fletcher Bradley.
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Molly Brett (1902-1990), English illustrator and author of children's books, known for her cute anthropomorphic animals and decorative florals.
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Hablot Knight Browne, known as Phiz (1815-1882), English illustrator particularly known for illustrating books by Charles Dickens
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Tom Browne (1870-1910), English cartoonist, comic strip artist and illustrator. Created the original Johnnie Walker whisky character.
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Ella Bruce (fl.1960s-70s), children's author and illustrator for the Medici Society.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (circa 1525-1569), Dutch-Flemish renaissance artist and printmaker, best known for his landscapes and genre paintings of peasant life, sometimes containing a religious element. After training and working in Italy, he settled in Antwerp from 1555. His two sons, Pieter and Jan, were also artists.
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Patricia Burgess, illustrator for the Medici Society specialising in anthropomorphic animals.
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Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), British artist and designer associated with later Pre-Raphaelites
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