Born Latvia. First visited London in 1926. The Picture Source website provides a biography. Married Richard Hare and built, with him, Dorich House which is where she died and is now a museum.
For more information on this sculptor we suggest the book ‘Working Against the Grain: Women Sculptors in Britain c.1885-1950’ by Pauline Rose.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Dora Gordine
Sun Yat-Sen, 1866 - 1925, father of the Chinese Republic, lived in a house on...
Sculptor (or "sculptress", according to her website). Born England, studied chemistry and moved to Iran where she took up art and sculpture. Active in 2011.
Born in what is now Croatia. Worked in Vienna and Brussels and settled in Britain in 1938. Specialised in Winston Churchill. Our picture shows Nemon with a self-portrait: now that sculpture we woul...
Sculptor. Born Dublin. Exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1866. His prolific output includes busts in Westminster Abbey.
One of Viscount Rothermere's three sons, of which the elder two died in WW1.
The daughter of the landlord of The Swan public house at Walton-on-Thames. The composer Jerome Kern stopped at the pub while on a Thames river trip and fell in love with her. They married in Walton...
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...
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