© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2025. Image credit: Tate

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Eve. 1882, bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). Image credit: Tracy Jenkins / Art UK

Susanna and the Elders . c.1610, oil on canvas by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653 or after). Image credit: Schloss Weißenstein, Pommersfelden, Bavaria (source: Wikimedia Commons)

© The Executors of the Frink Estate and Archive. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025. Image credit: Tracy Jenkins / Art UK

© the artist. Image credit: Brunel University London Arts Collection

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Image credit: The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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Presumed self-portrait. c.1512, red chalk on paper drawing by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) (attributed to). Image credit: Uffizi, Florence (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Image credit: Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council

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Frank Bowling, 2019. Image credit: Mathilde Agius

Still from the film 'Dora Gordine Ars Gratia Artis', 2018. Image credit: 2018 Viking Visionary Films

Naming the Money (installation view, Spike Island, 2017). 2004, plywood, acrylic & mixed media installation, dimensions variable by Lubaina Himid (b.1954). Image credit: courtesy the artist, Hollybush Gardens and National Museums, Liverpool. Photo: Stuart Whipp

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© the artist's estate. Image credit: City of London Corporation

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© courtesy of Culture Perth & Kinross Museums & Galleries. Image credit: Perth & Kinross Council

'Mrs Lowry & Son' will be released nationwide from 30th August 2019. Image credit: Vertigo Releasing

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Image credit: Sir John Soane’s Museum

Still from the film 'Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis', 2018. Image credit: 2018 Viking Visionary Films

Meme of Jacob Rees-Mogg as Millais' Ophelia. Image credit: GazWeetman (source: Twitter)

© Royal Academy of Arts, London. Image credit: Marcus Leith

© the copyright holder. Image credit: Bradford Museums and Galleries

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Catherine II the Legislatress in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice. 1783, oil on canvas by Dmitry Levitsky (1735–1822). Image credit: The State Russian Museum (source: Google Arts and Culture)

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© Chris Ofili. Image credit: Tate

Sir Sampson Gideon. (and an unidentified companion), 1767, oil on canvas by Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787). Image credit: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1963 (source: Google Arts Project)

'I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi' by Gina Siciliano. Image credit: Fantagraphics

Fons Americanus. 2019, Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern by Kara Walker (b.1969). © the artist. Image credit: Tate (Matt Greenwood)

The years lie in wait for you. c.1935, photograph, gelatin silver print on paper by Dora Maar (1907–1997). © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019. Image credit: The William Talbott Hillman Collection

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Gold statuette of Amun. Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, c.945–712 BC, possibly from Thebes, Karnak, Egypt. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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© the artist. Image credit: Jerwood Collection

Ain Sakhri lovers figurine. c. 10,000 BC (the Natufian period), calcite cobble, found at Wadi Khareitoun, Judea, near Bethlehem. Image credit: The British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Full Moon Circle. 2009, slate by Richard Long (b.1945), Houghton Hall, Norfolk. Image credit: Houghton Hall, Norfolk, CC-BY-2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Declaration of love. 1731, oil on canvas by Jean François de Troy (1679–1752). Image credit: Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin (source: Google Arts and Culture)

A pink triangle against a black backdrop with the words 'Silence = Death'. 1987, colour lithograph by ACT UP. Image credit: ACT-UP, The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, CC BY-NC 4.0 (source: Wellcome Collection)

Jeune femme aux perles . unknown date, oil on canvas by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956). © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2020. Image credit: Nahmad Projects

The Blue Kimono. 1898, oil on canvas by William Merritt Chase (1849–1916). Image credit: The Parrish Art Museum, public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Edith Cavell (1865–1915). 1915–1920, Cornish grey granite & white marble by George James Frampton (1860–1928). Image credit: Tracy Jenkins / Art UK

Flora Yukhnovich. Image credit: Peter Mallet, Parafin Gallery, London

© the artist. Image credit: British Council Collection

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Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy. c.1620–1625, oil on canvas by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1654 or after). Image credit: Dominique Provost Art Photography – Bruges / private European collection

Image credit: Birmingham Museums Trust

Image credit: Paul Francis / Art UK

Laura Knight. 1927, bromide print by Press Association Photos. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

The Gleaners. oil on canvas, copy of Jean-François Millet (1814–1875). Image credit: Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2025. Image credit: Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

Still from 'Ammonite'. 2020, film by Francis Lee. Image credit: NEON Rated, LLC. All rights reserved.

Self Portrait . (detail), 1940, gouache on cardboard by Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943). Image credit: Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

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© the artist. Image credit: Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London

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The Male Graze for Art Night, Compton Verney. 2021, billboard by the Guerrilla Girls. © the artist. Image credit: Tegen Kimbley

Sophie Taeuber with her Dada head. 1920, gelatin silver print on card by Nicolai Aluf. Image credit: Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin

Sofia Mitsola. 2020, photograph by Mark Blower. Image credit: Mark Blower, courtesy of Pilar Corrias, London

Ira Aldridge. Image credit: New York Public Library, Digital Collection

From 'The Pillar'. 2015–2019, photograph by Stephen Gill (b.1971). © the artist. Image credit: Courtesy of Arnolfini, Bristol

Garden Party. 2021, oil on jute by Sahara Longe (b.1994). © the artist. Image credit: Ed Cross Fine Art, London

Film still from 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain'. Image credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios

© the artist. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

Vanessa Raw in her studio. Image credit: Courtesy of the artist

Peix que fui. 2020–2021, ceramic by Miquel Barceló (b.1957). © the artist, courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac. Image credit: Charles Duprat

Caroline Walker, 2018. Image credit: Peter Mallet, courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, GRIMM, Amsterdam and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

A Conversation with Oscar Wilde. 1998, bronze and granite sculpture by Maggi Hambling (b.1945). © the artist / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Colleen Rowe Harvey / Art UK

Jusqu'ici tout va bien. 2022, acrylic gouache on linen by Hulda Guzmán. © the artist. Image credit: Gustavo Peña, courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

Pillars (Ravendale). 1972, oil on board, by Maurice Wade (1917–1991). © the artist's estate. Image credit: Trent Art Gallery, courtesy of Andy McCluskey

Intimate Distances. 2010, optical image made by a constructed camera obscura by Issam Kourbaj (b.1963). © the artist. Image credit: Christ’s College, Cambridge

Emma Fineman in the studio. Image credit: courtesy of the artist

Breathe:2022. © the artist. Image credit: courtesy of the artist and Invisible Dust

Performance view, Carolina Caycedo in 'Atarraya', Phoenix, 2018. Image credit: Alonso Parra / Lamp Left Media

Unknown Territory 1. 2022, oil on wood by Anne Rothenstein (b.1949). © the artist / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Todd-White Art Photography, courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

The Gulf Stream. 1899, oil on canvas by Winslow Homer (1836–1910). Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. Image credit: unknown photographer

© the artist's estate. Image credit: Southend Museums

Image credit: The Fitzwilliam Museum

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Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery

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Vessel. 1961, by Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011). © Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. . Image credit: Jordan Tinker, courtesy Tate

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

God will punish him. 2021, textiles by Anya Paintsil (b.1993). © the artist. Image credit: Ed Cross Fine Art, London

© the artist. Image credit: Rugby Art Gallery and Museum Art Collections

Gin Lane. (detail), 1751, engraving by William Hogarth (1697–1764). Image credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London