Sorry guys. I may have done the OP wrong. You are giving me a list of names for folk who have done great things. Some I agree with and some I don't, but where are the artefacts? Where are today's majestically carved and painted porcelain figures? Where are today's sculptures the like of Rodin's The Thinker? OK, there may be one or two artists out there with a mass of ability but back in the 1800's there were dozens of them and much of their work still exists in museums and Art galleries.