Artist. Born into a family of artists either at 70 (St) John Street, now Whitfield Street W1, or 6 Great Coram Street WC1, depending on source. In 1842 Victoria and Albert started buying his works and in 1851 he became art tutor to their children, a post he held for 20 years. Died at the house with the plaque.
The photo shows him c.1870. Lots more info at Corbould, especially about his family.
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Edward Henry Corbould
The plaque is a one-off in a delicate serif typeface. The off-set string cour...
Born Marcus Clayton Stone in London, the son of artist Frank Stone who was friends with Thackeray and Dickens. Trained by his father, he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy before he was eighteen. ...
Electrical engineer. Born John Ambrose Fleming in a house named Greenfield in Lancaster. Best known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube. He was also an accomplished photographer...
Artist. Born in Verona as Paolo Caliari (he took his professional name from his birthplace). He trained as a stone-cutter, but under the influence of Titian settled in Venice. He produced frescoes ...
Artist. Born Renate Hannah Meyer in Berlin. Her family came as refugees to Britain in 1933. She married fellow artist Charles Keeping.
Born Netherlands. Painted a lot of self-portraits. Died Amsterdam. As far as we can tell he never left his home country.
Second from the left in the photo. (Don't blame us for the sideways stretch.)
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