Hiroshige is known as the last great master of Japanese traditional woodblock printing, imbuing the Japanese landscape with a magnificent lyricism. X

Nadar was the popular moniker of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, nineteenth-century French artist, photographer, innovator and journalist. He was also close to the Impressionists, and is known for his portraits of the significant personalities of the Parisian avant-garde. X

The painter Ben Nicholson led the British St Ives Group (among others) with wife Barbara Hepworth and other important artists of the time such as Kit Wood and Naum Gabo. X