Akseli Gallen-Kallela was born in the small village of Pori, Finland in 1865.

Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor and painter, famed for his trademark sculptural technique of rough, eroded and consumed surfaces.

Arthur Jafa is an American artist who works seamlessly across film, photography, happenings, moving image and sound installation, found material and prints.

Over the last five decades, architectural artist Brian Clarke has produced works that expand and redefine our understanding of stained glass.

Conor Harrington is an Irish artist based in London known for his impressive body of work that graces both streets and gallery walls.

Colourful spots, animals frozen in time, glorious butterfly wings and a skull set with diamonds are just some icons of Damien Hirst’s boundary-redefining career.

Etel Adnan was an American-Lebanese painter and writer whose expressive, poetic landscapes offer intimate visions of both American and Middle Eastern scenes.

In many ways Francis Bacon’s raw images of abject bodily distortions answer the Surrealist Andre Breton’s call for a ‘convulsive beauty’.

Gerhard Richter’s artistic explorations, which stretch over more than six decades, constitute a radical attempt to integrate representation and abstraction.

Few names in the history of early modern art are more celebrated than that of Hans Holbein the Younger, the court portraitist who immortalised the Tudor aristocracy as well as eminent humanists and intellectuals across Europe.

The elusive street artist Invader uses his now-ubiquitous pixelated characters to bring the digital world to the physical world and art to the masses.

In his own words, French artist JR creates ‘infiltrating art’ and is driven by an ambition to bring art to as many people as possible.

Lucian Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, celebrated for his provocative portraits and nudes.

Peter Doig’s visionary paintings and prints transform ordinary moments from life into enthralling compositions bursting with colour.