Edward Lutterell

Edward Lutterell never signed a painting, but you’ll find a hundred of his prints in the British Museum’s Beard Print Collection. He spent his life in London taverns, sketching the regulars—drunkards, fishmongers, a one-eyed boxer who posed in exchange for ale. What sticks is how he turned soot and spittle into portraits that look like they’re still breathing. Pop into the museum’s print room and ask for “H Beard,” and you’ll get a shelf of faces that feel like gossip frozen in time.