Painter of landscapes and portraits. The picture is a self-portrait. Born London. Patron to William Blake. Daughter married Samuel Palmer, the painter.
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John Linnell
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Linnell & Blake
Greater London Council John Linnell, 1792 - 1882, painter lived here. Wil...
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Walter Sickert
Considered the most influential English painter since Turner. Born Munich, eldest son of a Danish artist and French-educated English mother. His family moved to England when he was 8. Trained as an...
3 memorials
Jan Verbruggen
Master gun-founder and artist. Born at Enkhuizen in the Netherlands. After an unsuccessful attempt in 1763, he and his son Pieter were appointed master founders at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich in 177...
2 memorials
Led by Donkeys
From their Facebook page: "Art, activism and accountability. All our work is funded by the public, no big donors."
1 memorial
William Heath Robinson
Comic artist and illustrator. Born in Finsbury Park. He started his career as a book illustrator, and during WW1 began drawing cartoons of unlikely secret weapons. His later works of wonderfully co...
2 memorials
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Parachute mines
These were used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the German Luftwaffe in 1940-41. They acted as blast bombs and were capable of killing up to 100 people.
1 memorial
Josef Dallos
Hungarian-born British ophthalmologist, invented living eye impression technique, 1930. Moved to London with George Nissel in May 1937 and, in Cavendish Square, set up the first contact lens only p...
1 memorial
William Ian Baverstock Brooks
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
1 memorial
George 5th Earl Cadogan
Politician. Born at Durham. Ennobled by the death of his father in 1873. Lord of the Manor of Chelsea when it was undergoing massive developments out of which he made pots of money. Funded the bui...
2 memorials
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