I’m a big fan of Carel Weight, I think he manages to capture that sense of English suburbia and yet invest it with something else – a sort of other-worldliness.

I used to visit Dolbadern Castle with my Dad, who was a really good watercolour artist. He painted it many times and the connection with Turner interested him as much as the drama of the landscape, so I feel really attached to it for that reason.

This photo is a bit of a mystery. All I know about Ledru Mauro is he was an Italian photographer based in Messina and he took photographs of the eruption of Mount Etna in 1892, but they’re certainly amazing.

Prior to Eadweard Muybridge's work, a horse in motion would’ve been quite mysterious, a gallop being so fast that the human eye can’t actually identify each motion. This revealed the mystery of that and just compositionally it is a really beautiful photograph.

Julia Margaret Cameron said she wanted to ‘record faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man’. It’s a very very moving image.

This engraving is an extraordinary montage of images, playing on historical, literary and theological traditions with a sense of sublime romanticism thrown in there.

This is a very subtle, almost Whistler-like silvery toned lithograph. There’s a beautiful suggestive quality to the print that really draws you in.

Some may find this print by John Martin melodramatic, but for me I think there’s an extraordinary sense of emotional intensity, which I find really compelling.

Despite its small scale, this is a powerful image that is graphically able to communicate something very intensely.

Although it’s an emotionally powerful composition and Constable obviously had something to say about that location, it’s also an important document. Constable wanted to record something that he was witnessing.