A. de Valmont

A de Valmont strikes you like a 19th-century prankster in ink: those etching plates feel like he’d sneak into your study at midnight, carve a joke into the copper, then vanish before you noticed the ink dry. His prints love a good beard, especially the kind that curls like a question mark or sprouts leaves like a tree, because why not make facial hair the star of the show? Find him in the corners of your local antique print stall; tap “H Beard Print Collection” and you’ll meet his whole menagerie of whiskers gone wild.