Born County Clare, Ireland. Watercolour painter and art administrator. Appointed director of the National Gallery 1874 and knighted in 1884. Died 43 Argyle Road, Kensington.
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Sir Frederic William Burton
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Rossetti fountain
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
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Whitechapel Boys
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 Epste...
1 memorial
Thomas Allom
Architect and artist. Born Lambeth. Founding member of RIBA. Travelled extensively and illustrated topographical publications. Waymarking has the text of a 1997 paper by Leslie du Cane which sa...
1 memorial
Walter Sickert
Considered the most influential English painter since Turner. Born Munich, eldest son of a Danish artist and French-educated English mother. His family moved to England when he was 8. Trained as an...
3 memorials
John Heartfield
Born Helmut Herzfeld in the outskirts of Berlin. Changed his name in 1917 in protest at the anti-British feelings in Germany. Fleeing the Nazis in 1938 he came to England where he was interned for ...
1 memorial
Arthur George Walker
Sculptor and painter. Born Hackney. Other work in London: Heston war memorial.
7 memorials
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lockerbie bombing
Pan Am 103 flying Heathrow to New York's JFK was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland. 270 were killed: 243 passengers, 16 crew, 11 on the ground.
18 memorials
Sir Carol Reed
SW3, Kings Road, 213
This is the home where he died, 2 years earlier than the plaque would have it.
1 subject commemorated
Kensington Town Hall - Churchill
W8, Hornton Street
The Sequoiadendron giganteum, otherwise known as the Giant Redwood, was discovered by Europeans in California in 1833. More pictures at R...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Charrington's coal wharf
E1, The Highway, 326, Free Trade Wharf
We have laboured long and hard trying to understand what "H.R" and these dates refer to, but have yet to find an answer. Here is a report...