London County Council
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723 - 1792, portrait painter, lived and died in a house on this site.
WC2, Leicester Square, 48
There are actually 2 plaques, with the same wording, on the building, one at first floor and one at ground floor level.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Joshua Reynolds plaque
Born in Plympton, Devonshire. Came to London in 1753. As a student of Italian...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Joshua Reynolds plaque
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
We photographed this plaque in Sept 2003, but on returning to photograph the building in March 2008, the plaque had gone. 2021: we retur...
Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) French impressionist, stayed here in 1892.
Site of St Leonard Eastcheap, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666. The Corporation of the City of London
The plaques are on the southern end wall of the colonnade. From their position and style, including the rope borders, these two plaques w...
The Prince Regent (later King George IV) had died more than twenty years before the Great Exhibition. They mean the 'Prince Consort', i.e...
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