Painter and sculptor. Born London but brought up in Nottingham. Despite a scholarship (aged 12!) to study art at Nottingham Art School he left school and in 1927 went to Canada doing the sort of jobs men of that age do (mining, logging and printing). But he returned to London in 1933 to study art. He went on to study in Paris and returned to England with his first wife on the outbreak of WW2. In 1960, he married his second wife, Dutch Indonesian Renske van Slooten, 28 years his junior. Self-portrait from about 1950. More of his work, many war-damaged London street scenes, can be seen in the post by the wonderful Spitalfields Life.
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Cyril Mann
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Cyril Mann
Mann lived here in a very small flat, only 500sq ft. But it had superb light...
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Alfred Head
Born Holloway. Islington artist and Borough Architect for Islington in 1974. the Riviera Reporter contains an interview with Alfred Head.
Sir Noel Paton
Born Dunfermline, Scotland as Joseph Noel Paton. Painter. He first achieved success as a book illustrator. His early paintings heavily featured fairies, but in due course he became influenced by ...
Richard Cosway
Born Tiverton, Devon Painter of miniatures, the picture is a self-portrait.
Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Born Calcutta, India. Artist and writer. His father was a civil servant in India and the family moved to England on his retirement. A minor figure in the Pre-Raphaelites, although he exhibited regu...
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Sir David Low
Cartoonist and caricaturist. Born David Alexander Cecil Low in Dunedin, New Zealand. He worked for several newspapers, before coming to London and joining the 'Star'. In 1927 he moved to the Evenin...
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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Born Arthur William Patrick Albert, the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria. Created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex in 1874. Entered the Royal Military Academy at Woo...
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney
Created in 1900, it became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1965.
Reverend Nicholas Richards
SE16, St Marychurch Street, 72
The Reverend Nicholas Richards, 1942 - 2006, "Father Nick", rector of St Mary's Rotherhithe 1977 - 2006. London Borough of Southwark - V...
Theodore H. Bryant
Co-owner and director of the Bryant and May match factory.
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