This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 18th Century

1. John Constable
2. JMW Turner
3. Jean-Honoré Fragonard
4. John Sell Cotman
   

   

5. John Crome
6. François Boucher
7. Giovanni Battista Piranesi
8. William Blake
9. Katsushika Hokusai
10. Antonio Canova

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 17th Century

1. Claude Lorrain
2. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
3. Willem van der Velde the Younger
   

   

4. Johannes Vermeer
5. Wenceslaus Hollar
6. Aelbert Cuyp
7. Pieter de Hooch
8. Antoine Watteau
9. William Hogarth
10. Peter Lely

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 16th Century

1. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
   

   

2. Nicolas Poussin
3. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
4. Anthony van Dyck
5. Giuseppe Arcimboldo
6. El Greco
7. Nicholas Hilliard
8. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
9. Frans Hals
10. Hendrick Avercamp

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born Before 1500

1. Albrecht Durer
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Fra Angelico
4. Jan van Eyck
5. Hieronymus Bosch
   

   

6. Giotto
7. Donatello
8. Filippo Lippi
9. Piero della Francesca
10. Sandro Botticelli