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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1 memorial
David Hockney
Artist. Born Bradford. Lived in California for many years. Passionately anti-anti-smoking, like fellow artist Maggie Hambling.
2 memorials
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
1 memorial
John Edwards
abstract painter and sculptor, and teacher. Born in London and grew up in Hornsey. Head of painting and sculpture at St Martin's School of Art, London, in the 1980s. In the last decade of his life,...
1 memorial
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Charles II - Sloane Square
SW1, Sloane Square
There seems to be some connection between Nell and this area so we asked the very knowledgeable Dave Walker, the Local Studies Librarian ...
1 subject commemorated,
5 creators
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...
11 memorials
Sebastopol fortifications
SW3, Old Church Street, 65, 1 The Courtyard
This plaque, on a building in the courtyard behind Old Church Street, is not self-explanatory. What was established in 1798 and rebuilt e...
2 subjects commemorated
Cromwell Buildings
SE1, Redcross Way
The Prince Regent (later King George IV) had died more than twenty years before the Great Exhibition. They mean the 'Prince Consort', i.e...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Hackney Almshouses for Disabled Soldiers & Sailors
E5, Wattisfield Road
The tower in the symbol looks to us a lot like Hackney's St Augustine's tower. Since the Foundation did not come into being until 1916 we...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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