Venetian painter. When the supply of Grand Tourists coming to Venice and buying his paintings dried up due to war, Canaletto decided to come to England. He arrived in 1746 and stayed until 1755, painting a number of London scenes. Review of an excellent 2007 exhibition 'Canaletto in England'.
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Antonio Canaletto
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Antonio Canaletto - W2
This plaque is not genuine. English Heritage have told us that they have, on ...
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery Dulwich Picture Gallery, England's very first public ...
Spirit of Soho Mural
Interesting that Coca Cola are specifically mentioned on the panel but not as...
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2 memorials
Angelica Kauffman
Painter. Born Switzerland. Arrived in London in 1766 and was quickly successful. Lived in Golden Square with her father. One of only two women amongst the founders of the Royal Academy of Arts. ...
1 memorial
Gunter Demnig
Born Berlin. From Stolpersteine: The artist Gunter Demnig remembers the victims of National Socialism by installing commemorative brass plaques in the pavement in front of their last address of ch...
1 memorial
Islington Art Society
Formed as the Islington Art Circle in 1941 by A. E. Hickman-Smith and on his death in 1965 run by George and Deborah Bunting until their deaths in 2000. Changed its name in 2002 to Islington Art S...
1 memorial
William Hogarth
Satirical artist and illustrator. Trained as an engraver, he depicted the unseemly behaviour of contemporaries in works like 'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) and 'A Rake's Progress' (1732). Much of his ...
12 memorials
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Karla Roman
E1, Whitechapel High Street
Killed at 9am as she cycled to work, by a coach. As far as we can tell the coach turned left across her path, as she also turned left out...
2 subjects commemorated
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
402 memorials
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