Artist and sculptor. Born Suffolk.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Maggie Hambling
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Mary Wollstonecraft, statue for
The quotation is from Wollstonecraft's 1792 'A Vindication of the Rights of W...
Oscar Wilde reclining
Unveiled by Lucian Holland, Wilde's great grandson, who made the unveiling sp...
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George Bunting
From Orra: “George, an engineer by profession, was an easy-going, pipe smoking and puckish ‘mein host’. His auburn close-cropped hair and goatee made him instantly recognizable, and his infectious...
John Skeaping
Painter and sculptor. Born John Rattenbury Skeaping in South Woodford, Essex. He studied at Goldsmith's College, the Central School of Arts and Crafts and later at the Royal Academy. In 1924 he won...
Philip de Laszlo
Painter. Born Budapest. In 1907 moved to London and stayed, though he often travelled for portrait commissions which included many royal families. His good relations with what became the enemy in...
Leonardo da Vinci
Scientist, artist, etc. - a polymath, the first "renaissance man". Born in Vinci, Italy (No? Really?). Died in France.
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Captain, Sir John Franklin
Born Lincolnshire. Royal Navy. Governor of Tasmania 1836-43. where there is also a statue. Left England in 1845 leading an expedition of 2 ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to voyage the last unnav...
York Watergate
See Norwich Place/York House for more about the history of this site. In 1874 the construction of Embankment Gardens left this watergate high and dry. In 1893, the watergate having fallen into de...
William Robert Fountaine Addison, VC
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 9 April 1916, age 32, while serving in the Army Chaplains’ Department. "For his unceasing attention to the wounded... under incessant fire and with utter disregard...
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