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 Epstein, Mark Gertler, Jacob Kramer, Bernard Meninsky, Clara Winsten, Alfred Wolmark.
Writers/philosophers/thinkers: Joseph Leftwich, John Rodker, Isaac Rosenberg, Stephen Winsten.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Whitechapel Boys
Murals are often rather fun puzzles so do have a go identifying what you can ...
John V. Doubleday was born on 9 October 1947 in Langford, Maldon, Essex, the youngest of the three children of Gordon Vincent Doubleday (1914-1993) and Margaret Elsa Verder Doubleday née Harris (19...
From:johncoulthart: ". . the model for Eros was one Angelo Colarossi whose father was also named Angelo Colarossi and was the model for Leighton’s python wrangler. Colarossi Snr, an Italian immigr...
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