"Helping museums and galleries buy art for everyone to enjoy". Previously known as the National Art Collections Fund.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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Burghers of Calais
Created for the town square in Calais following France's devastating defeat i...
Millais, Hoppe & Bacon
National Art Collections Fund John Everett Millais, 1829 - 1896, Emil Otto ...
Windrush fruit
The plaque is laid into the paving to the east of the fruit. Reading our phot...
Windrush Hackney statue
The title is 'Warm Shores'. From Hackney: "The two 9ft bronze figures are bas...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
1 memorial
Walter Greaves
Painter and boat builder. Born at 31 Cheyne Walk. His father was J.M.W. Turner's boatman. His most famous painting is 'Hammersmith Bridge on Boat-Race Day'. Although a colleague of Whistler, he fel...
1 memorial
1 memorial
William Roberts
Artist. Founder member of the short-lived British Vorticist group and a WW1 war artist.The William Roberts Society's website (see Picture Source) has much information, especially on the house in...
1 memorial
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Leyton people fallen since WW2
"Fallen" tends to suggest a war context, but this is not specified.
1 memorial
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
Sydney Perks
Sydney Perks FRIBA, FSA, was born on 2 January 1864 in Westminster, one of the eight children of Charles Perks (1807-1871) and Emily Marian Perks née Warner (1827-1919). On 22 January 1864 he was b...
2 memorials
Zeppelin airships
Invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1900. London was first targeted with airships in May 1915 and initially found defence very difficult. Searchlights and incendiary ammunition helped to de...
7 memorials
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