Person    | Male  Born 20/2/1921  Died 17/11/1975

Michael Ayrton

Categories: Art, Literature, Sculpture

Artist and writer. Born 3 Hamilton Terrace. Other work by Ayrton in London: Minotaur at London Wall. Died at his London flat. Our picture is a self portrait from 1966.

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Michael Ayrton

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Sunley and Icarus

Ayton also designed the unusual bronze plinth for this location, a garden ato...

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James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler

Painter and printmaker, born in Worthen Street, Lowell, Massachussetts. His family moved to Russia in 1843 and he received his first formal art instruction at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, St ...

Person, Art, Seriously Famous, Russia, USA

3 memorials
Laurence Housman

Laurence Housman

Radical playwright, writer, illustrator, socialist, pacifist and founding member of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage. The photo shows Housman in 1914. Brother to A. E. Housman. Studied art an...

Person, Art, Gender Issues, Theatre

1 memorial
John Heartfield

John Heartfield

Born Helmut Herzfeld in the outskirts of Berlin. Changed his name in 1917 in protest at the anti-British feelings in Germany. Fleeing the Nazis in 1938 he came to England where he was interned for ...

Person, Art, Politics & Administration, Germany

1 memorial
Paul Donnelly

Paul Donnelly

Artist. We think Donnelly may be the instructor mentioned in this 2010 Ceramics Monthly.

Person, Art

2 memorials
Bruce Williams

Bruce Williams

Artist. He describes himself as 'a figurative, expressionist painter who is constantly at odds with creating the pictorial image'.

Person, Art

1 memorial