Vincent Van Gogh said it best: There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. And so, in honor of Valentines Day, we asked four artistic couples to share the secrets of their passion.

The 1919 story an otherwise usual shipwreck with an unusually tragic ending should stop with the words of the first mate. But over the days and weeks that followed, his report proved a mere preface to the saga that sprang up around the case of the Sumner.