Person    | Male  Born 13/1/1926  Died 21/12/2009

Craigie Aitchison

Categories: Art

Countries: Scotland

Born Edinburgh. Studied law at Middle Temple in 1948 and then in 1950 returned to Edinburgh to paint. Back in London 1952-4 at the Slade School. He returned to Scotland, but in 1963 he moved to the Kennington house where, apart from travels to Italy, he remained until his death.

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Craigie Aitchison

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Craigie Aitchison

Craigie Aitchison, RA, CBE, 1926 - 2009, painter, lived in this house from 19...

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David Hockney

David Hockney

Artist.  Born Bradford.  Lived in California for many years.  Passionately anti-anti-smoking, like fellow artist Maggie Hambling.

Person, Art, Seriously Famous, USA

2 memorials
David McKee

David McKee

Born Devon. Created Mr Benn and Elmer the Patchwork Elephant.

Person, Art, Literature

1 memorial
Paul Nash

Paul Nash

Painter and watercolourist. Served with the Artists' Rifles in WW1.

Person, Art

2 memorials
Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka

Painter. Born in Pöchlarn, Austria. He studied in Vienna and worked in Berlin for many years where he painted expressionist portraits and did illustrations for the periodical 'Der Sturm'. Branded a...

Person, Art, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Switzerland

1 memorial
William Richard Lethaby

William Richard Lethaby

Born Barnstaple, Devon. Architect, in the arts and crafts style, and writer on archaeology and medieval art. First Principle of the Central School of Arts & Crafts.  The Lethaby gallery at the ...

Person, Architecture, Art, History

3 memorials

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Tom Moore

Tom Moore

W1, George Street, 85

The pdf from St James's Conservation Trust says:"This plaque was removed from 28 Bury Street, prior to its demolition in 1962, to make wa...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
George Baxter

George Baxter

Artist and craftsman. Born Lewes. 1825 moved to London and married his cousin Mary Harrild. He invented a commercially viable colour printing process, producing prints of religious and topical subj...

Person, Art, Commerce, Craft / Design, Tragedy

3 memorials
Wm. Phillips

Wm. Phillips

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Geoffrey Woolley VC

Geoffrey Woolley VC

E2, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green Gardens

In our photo the plaque can be seen laid into the grass behind the pedestrian.

War served | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Cheyne Walk heads - More and Erasmus

Cheyne Walk heads - More and Erasmus

SW3, Cheyne Walk, 15

No inscription remains legible but we believe we've found the painting used as the model for the head on the right and it's Erasmus.  So ...

2 subjects commemorated