Person    | Male  Died 1764

Simon Francis Davenet

Categories: Art, Craft / Design

Simon Francis Davenet

Engraver.

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Simon Francis Davenet

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Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial

This elaborate piece of high Victoriana was designed by George Highton of Bri...

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David Jones

David Jones

Painter and poet. Born Walter David Michael Jones.As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engra...

Person, Art, Poetry

1 memorial
Alexis Kow

Alexis Kow

From Velocetoday we learn: Kow was born near St. Petersburg as Alexis Kojewnikow (or Kogeynikow) and was studying in Switzerland when the 1917 Russian revolution happened. He went on to Paris where...

Person, Art, Sculpture, France, Russia

1 memorial
William Blake

William Blake

Poet and artist. Except for 3 years spent on the coast near Bognor, Blake lived his whole life in London, making his living as an engraver. Born at 28 Broad Street, now Broadwick Street (the memori...

Person, Art, Poetry, Seriously Famous

10 memorials
Society of British Artists

Society of British Artists

The following text was copied from the picture source website: The Royal Society of British Artists was established in 1823 by a small group of artists who wished to form an alternative to the Roy...

Group, Art

2 memorials

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Raine's House - charity girl

Raine's House - charity girl

E1, Raine Street, Raine's House

The motto above the door reads ‘Come in and learn your duty to God and man’. The scholar statues on the front are copies. The originals w...

2 subjects commemorated
Bombs 7 July 2005

Bombs 7 July 2005

In the middle of the morning rush hour four bombs went off on three tube trains, at 8.50am and a bus, at 9.47am. 52 people died. Plaques commemorating the victims have been placed at each of the b...

Event, Seriously Famous, Terrorism, Tragedy

12 memorials
Laurie Cunningham - Statue

Laurie Cunningham - Statue

E10, Buckingham Road, Coronation Gardens

The statue was sculpted by Graham Ibbeson.

3 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Nell Gwynne

Nell Gwynne

Eleanor Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne, whatever.  Born Hereford. Rumoured to have lived at Lauderdale House as the mistress of Charles II, where she dangled her first-born from a window to scare the King int...

Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous, Theatre

4 memorials
Trinity College of Music

Trinity College of Music

Founded as the Church Choral Society by the Reverend Henry George Bonavia Hunt. with the intention of improving the teaching of church music. In 1873 it became the College of Church Music, and then...

Place, Music / songs

1 memorial