Master gun-founder and artist. Born at Enkhuizen in the Netherlands. After an unsuccessful attempt in 1763, he and his son Pieter were appointed master founders at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich in 1770. They introduced a horizontal boring machine for producing guns, rather than the traditional vertical method. Our picture shows this machine.
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Jan Verbruggen
Verbruggen's House, 1773, built for Jan & Pieter Vanbruggen, joint master...
The plaque refers to the Verbruggens as brothers, when in fact they were fath...
From the Whitechapel Gallery: "A group of significant artists and writers emerged from the Jewish diaspora in east London at the beginning of the 20th Century." Artists: David Bomberg, Jacob Epste...
Originated as the bequest left by Lord Leighton in 1896. Bob Speel provides some useful information about what the fund has bought. The newspaper article quoted at Sloane Square fountain contains:...
Born Aberdeen. Winner of the Prix de Rome. Other work in London includes the 1963 Joy of Life group in the Hyde Park fountain, pictured by Ornamental Passions.
Born County Clare, Ireland. Watercolour painter and art administrator. Appointed director of the National Gallery 1874 and knighted in 1884. Died 43 Argyle Road, Kensington.
Born Helmut Herzfeld in the outskirts of Berlin. Changed his name in 1917 in protest at the anti-British feelings in Germany. Fleeing the Nazis in 1938 he came to England where he was interned for ...
A parliamentary fort erected to defend London during the Civil War. The picture source website is fascinating but strangely we can't actually locate Stones End on the maps there. There used to be ...
Nearby is a small notice, nicely handmade but beginning to deteriorate, informing "St Mellitus' Peace Garden, dedicated on Remembrance Su...
The fourth theatre on the site since restoration times, this is the oldest theatre in use in London. In 1745 the National Anthem had its first public performance here, in an earlier building.
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