Person    | Male  Born 1856  Died 1941

Sir John Lavery

Categories: Art

Countries: Ireland, Scotland

Painter. Born Belfast. One of the "Glasgow Boys" he went on to become a successful portrait painter.

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Sir John Lavery

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Sir John Lavery

Greater London Council Sir John Lavery, 1856 - 1941, painter, lived here 189...

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Henry Fuseli

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Edward Lear

Edward Lear

Born Bowman's Lodge, (now Bowman's Mews), the penultimate of 21 children. Artist and writer of nonsense works, such as The Owl and the Pussycat, and limericks, e.g. There was an old person of Putn...

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Frederic George Stephens

Frederic George Stephens

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Arts Council of England / Great Britain

Arts Council of England / Great Britain

1940 the Committee for Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) was set up by Royal Charter.  About 1946 it became the Arts Council of Great Britain and in 1994 it was split into national bodies,...

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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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403 memorials