Artist based in London.
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Virginia Nimarkoh
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Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - entrance
Building designed by: Joseph Paxton First large scale prefabricated glass and...
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NE
British Isles & Empire exhibitors: 7381 Foreign exhibitors: 6556 Number o...
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NW
700 tons of wrought iron 3800 tons of cast iron 24 miles of wooden guttering ...
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - SE
Project funded by: public subscription Cost of building and fittings: £200,00...
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - SW
Length of building: 1848 ft Breadth of building: 408 ft Height of building: 1...
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Paul Sandby
Water-colour painter. Probably born in Nottingham. 1742 joined the Ordnance office at the Tower of London as a military draughtsman. Engaged for 5 years in the military survey of Scotland. Back...
Sir Hugh Lane
Art dealer and collector. Born Hugh Percy Lane In Ballybrack House, Douglas, Cork. He moved to London, and opened an art gallery in 1898. Here he developed a reputation as a shrewd gentleman-deale...
Sir William Orpen
Painter. Born William Newenham Montague Orpen at Oriel, Blackrock, County Dublin. He was an official artist in World War I and attended the Versailles Peace Conference. Deeply affected by the suffe...
Ray Walker
Muralist. Married to Anna. Designed the Hackney Peace Carnival Mural but died suddenly from a heart attack, aged 39 before the painting began. He was also working on the Cable Street mural when he...
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Dame Marie Tempest
Actress and singer. Born Mary Susan Etherington in London. She studied music in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Music, making her stage debut in 1885 in the operetta Boccaccio at the Comedy Theat...
Michael Painter
Woodcarver. Some people succeed in their battle against nominative determinism. See Isambard Kingdom Brunel for a brief discussion on this naming nicety.
Gilbert Miller
American impresario. Owned the St James's Theatre from 1943 to its demise in 1957.
Janet Gillman
Former councillor and mayor of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Harold Knight
Painter. Registered as a conscientious objector in WW1. Died at the Park Hotel near Malvern. See his wife, Laura, for more details.