Painter and etcher. Born Dumbarton, aged 17 came to the Slade School of Art and stayed in London. Illustrated the works of John Bunyan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling. A Google image search shows a varied array of portraits. The picture here is a self-portrait. Died Bournemouth.
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William Strang
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William Strang
William Strang, 1859 - 1921, painter and etcher, lived here, 1900 - 1921. Lon...
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John Linnell
Painter of landscapes and portraits. The picture is a self-portrait. Born London. Patron to William Blake. Daughter married Samuel Palmer, the painter.
1 memorial
Craigie Aitchison
Born Edinburgh. Studied law at Middle Temple in 1948 and then in 1950 returned to Edinburgh to paint. Back in London 1952-4 at the Slade School. He returned to Scotland, but in 1963 he moved to the...
1 memorial
Jacques Lipchitz
Born as Chaim Jacob Lipchitz Druskieniki, Lithuania. Died on the island of Capri and was buried on Har Hamenuhot, Jerusalem. External website provides a good chronology and pictures of some works .
2 memorials
William Holman Hunt
Painter and co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His intended middle name was ‘Hobman’ (his mother’s maiden name) which he disliked. Discovering that it had been misspelled as ‘Holman’ at ...
3 memorials
Cicely Mary Barker
Illustrator. Born at West Croydon. An epilepsy sufferer, she was housebound for most of her youth. In this time she showed a talent for drawing, and the first of her many books 'Flower Fairies of t...
1 memorial
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S. Brown
Died serving in WW1. Member of the parish of Saint Olave and Saint John Southwark.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
LSHTM - Ross
WC1, Gower Street, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
This listed building was designed by Vernor Rees in 1926, one of the first steel-framed buildings ever erected. The balconies are decorat...
1 subject commemorated
Sir Francis Drake
Sea captain, explorer and pirate. Born in Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon. He spent his formative years in the house of his cousin Sir John Hawkins and by 1565 was voyaging to Guinea and the Spani...
6 memorials
Mihaela Otto
Mihaela Draganescu was born on 18 December 1958 in Romania who came to the UK in 1984. She was briefly married but when the marriage broke down she retained her married surname of Otto. Living in M...
3 memorials
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