Person    | Male  Born 1727  Died 1788

Thomas Gainsborough

Categories: Art, Seriously Famous

Born Sudbury, Suffolk.

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Thomas Gainsborough

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Dulwich Picture Gallery

Dulwich Picture Gallery Dulwich Picture Gallery, England's very first public ...

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Thomas Gainsborough

London County Council Thomas Gainsborough, 1727 - 1788, artist, lived here.

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Isaac Rosenberg

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Philip de Laszlo

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Norman Augustus Finch, VC

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1 memorial
London Society of East Anglians

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James Lane

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2 memorials
Cyprus Street war memorial

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E2, Cyprus Street, 76 - 78

"They shall grow not old..." is by Binyon. "When you go home..." is by Maxwell. But we cannot identify the "...marching with their comrad...

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Nell Deller

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Person, Community / Clubs

1 memorial