Group    From 1903 

Art Fund

Categories: Art, Benefactor

"Helping museums and galleries buy art for everyone to enjoy". Previously known as the National Art Collections Fund.

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Art Fund

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Burghers of Calais

Created for the town square in Calais following France's devastating defeat i...

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Millais, Hoppe & Bacon

National Art Collections Fund John Everett Millais, 1829 - 1896, Emil Otto ...

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Windrush fruit

The plaque is laid into the paving to the east of the fruit. Reading our phot...

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Windrush Hackney statue

The title is 'Warm Shores'. From Hackney: "The two 9ft bronze figures are bas...

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Other Subjects

William Morris (designer)

William Morris (designer)

Designer, author and visionary socialist.  Born Elm House, Walthamstow, Essex. The family moved to Woodford Hall in 1840 and to Water House in 1848. He moved in with his friend Edward Burne-Jones f...

Person, Art, Craft / Design, Literature, Seriously Famous, Iceland / Faroe Islands

15 memorials
Edward Lear

Edward Lear

Born Bowman's Lodge, (now Bowman's Mews), the penultimate of 21 children. Artist and writer of nonsense works, such as The Owl and the Pussycat, and limericks, e.g. There was an old person of Putn...

Person, Art, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, Italy

3 memorials
Ananda Coomaraswamy

Ananda Coomaraswamy

A Tamil philosopher and art historian. Born in Ceylon of a Tamil father and an English mother, brought up in England. Studied at University College, London.

Person, Art, History, Indian Sub-continent, Sri Lanka

1 memorial
National Gallery of Ireland

National Gallery of Ireland

Located in Merrion Square West, Dublin. The engineer William Dargan, wanting to emulate the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, set up an art exhibition in a series of pavilions. Such was its succes...

Building, Art, Ireland

1 memorial
Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis

Artist and writer. Born Percy Wyndham Lewis but he didn't like the Percy and dropped it. He was born in his wealthy American father's yacht off Amherst, Nova Scotia, to a British mother who left he...

Person, Art, Literature, USA

1 memorial

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Fish Street Hill plaque

Fish Street Hill plaque

EC3, Monument Street

Built 1671-7, designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke as a monument to the Great Fire and as a scientific instrument. Each step is ...

1 subject commemorated
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. It was originally planned to call it just Kensington, but Chelsea was added after local prot...

Group, Politics & Administration

32 memorials
Mrs Margaret Isobel Turner

Mrs Margaret Isobel Turner

Margaret Isobel Scott was born on 21 May 1861 in Bombay (now called Mumbai), India, the youngest of the three children of Henry Scott (1827-1862) and Margaret Scott Lang (1838-1915). Her two brothe...

Person, Friend / family, India

1 memorial