British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. Many of his works are held at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

A figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for the Israelite King Solomon. However, the queen's existence is disputed among historians.

Whilst commonly known as a romantic novelist, this is completely misleading. Like Hitchcock, she dealt in fear, loneliness, suspense and gothic imagery.

Great artist or mere illustrator. A storyteller with a brush, he did a lot of work for the Saturday Evening Post in New York. His work now sells for millions of dollars.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. A young Australian photographer, Frank Hurley, accompanied Shackleton on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition to record events in motion and still pictures.

Cardinal Richelieu was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman. He sought to consolidate royal power and crush domestic factions and was also famous for his patronage of the arts.

A versatile art form, almost uniquely British, and at its height in the 18th and 19th centuries. Hugh is an architect but also a very talented watercolourist, and regards this as perhaps the most challenging of all the media.

Dame Laura Knight and Dod Procter, are two well -known women artists to feature in the history of Cornish art. But there were many who came before and after them, who have been forgotten often because of their more famous husbands. This talk looks at the many women artists who came to capture Cornwall’s charms.

Gustav Klimt broke away from the imperially endorsed art institutions in Vienna in 1897 and founded the Secession. In the same year Gustav Mahler took charge of the Opera House in the city. Comparing these two, this lecture places Klimt and Mahler in context, asking what links and divides them.