Sculptor active in 2011. Freelanced page.
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Michael Painter
Woodcarver. Some people succeed in their battle against nominative determinism. See Isambard Kingdom Brunel for a brief discussion on this naming nicety.
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Laurence Bradshaw
Artist and sculptor. Born Liverpool. Socialist. Designed posters for London Transport 1935-1937. The only other London work of which we could find mention is a commission for eight bas-reliefs ...
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Sir John Steell
Born John Robert Steell, Aberdeen. Queen Victoria's official sculptor in Scotland, his work includes the Walter Scott statue at the Scott Monument in Edinburgh and Robert Burns in Albert Square, Du...
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Charles Leonard Hartwell, RA, FRBS, RBC.
He was a Member of the Royal Academy. The picture is a self-portrait. Much information about this sculptor can be found on his Wikipedia page, on the Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculptur...
3 memorials
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World War 1
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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Gyorgy Krasso
Hungarian patriot. New York Times obituary. Krasso's widow, Agnes Hay, has kindly allowed us to use this photograph.
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Nora Maude
Central Secretary of the Mothers' Union in 1925. In 1926 was quoted in newspapers as opposed to divorce, supporting a MU decision to deny membership to a divorced woman.
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Great Fire of London
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area of one and a half miles by a half mile - 87 churches - 13,200 houses - only 6 people are recorded as having died (but ...
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