Richard Wilson. Image credit: courtesy of Richard Wilson

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

Dolly Henry on Hampstead Heath. 1913, oil on canvas by John Currie (1883–1914). Image credit: courtesy of Bonhams

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

Image credit: Wellcome Collection

Image credit: Museum of London

The Queen of Time. figurative clock, installed 1931, gilt, enamel & bronze by Gilbert Bayes (1872–1953). Image credit: courtesy of Selfridges & Co., London / Andrew Meredith

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

Woman Artist, Nude, Standing. 1985–1987, oil on canvas by Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012). © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019. Image credit: The Destina Foundation, New York

© the artist's estate. Image credit: English Folk Dance and Song Society

The BBC's Broadcasting House in London. Image credit: Jeff Overs

Plague in London. 1665, facsimile reproduction from a pictorial broadside by John Dunstall (1644–1693). Image credit: Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Zimbabwe House, formally the home of the British Medical Association, The Strand, London. 1908, Jacob Epstein (1880–1959). Image credit: Stephen Richards (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Charterhouse's Great Chamber. Image credit: Will Pryce

Kinds of Life. 2019, winches, cables, swivel sheaves, custom control system & software by Random International (active since 2005). © the artist. Image credit: Great Ormond Street Hospital

Grace Dalrymple Elliot . c.1782, oil on canvas by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788). Image credit: Frick Collection, New York, public domain

Samuel Richardson's books. Image credit: The Stationers' Company

Image credit: Tate

© estate of Noelle Sandwith. Image credit: Royal Free Hospital

Image credit: British Dental Association Dental Museum

Image credit: Tate

Vandalised 'Rokeby Venus', 1914. (cuts made by Mary Richardson in 1914 using the meat cleaver shown in the top-right corner). Image credit: Wikimedia Commons

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

© the estate of David Bomberg. All rights reserved, DACS 2020. Image credit: A David Bomberg Legacy – The Sarah Rose Collection at London South Bank University, Borough Road

Image credit: Parliamentary Art Collection

© Andrew Tift. Image credit: Parliamentary Art Collection

© estate of Prunella Clough. All rights reserved, DACS 2020. Image credit: National Trust Images

© the artist's estate. Image credit: Bushey Museum and Art Gallery

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

© the artist, courtesy Ellen Kayley Broughton. Image credit: Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection

Image credit: Laing Art Gallery

The Tower of London and the Thames from 'Poems of Charles, Duke of Orleans'. c.1500, from the manuscript 'Royal 16 F.II, f.73' by British (English) School. Image credit: British Library, public domain

Image credit: Royal Academy of Arts

© The Executors of the Frink Estate and Archive. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020. Image credit: The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art

The Guitar Player. c.1672, oil on canvas by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), on display in Kenwood House. Image credit: Payton Walton, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (souce: Wikimedia Commons)

© the artist/Flowers Gallery, London and New York. Image credit: The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art