Born Devon. Created Mr Benn and Elmer the Patchwork Elephant.
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George Richmond
History and portrait painter. Born: Brompton. Died London. Buried Highgate Cemetery (the new, east, section)
Mark Gertler
Painter. Born 16 Gun Street, Spitalfields. As a baby he returned with his family to their native Galicia (Austria-Poland) but after a few years they came back to London's East End where his artist...
John Constable
Painter. Born in East Bergholt, on the Essex/Suffolk border. From 1819 Constable spent much of his time in Hampstead and many of his finest paintings are of Hampstead landscapes. He died in Fitzrov...
Abram Games
Designer. Born Abraham Gamse in Whitechapel. In World War II, he was approached by the War Office to produce a recruitment poster, and became an official war artist, designing many more posters. Af...
Omega Workshops
A design enterprise founded by Roger Fry and members of the Bloomsbury Group. The workshops, which included studios and showrooms were at 33 Fitzroy Square. The aim was to remove the perceived div...