Person    | Male  Born 1832  Died 12/12/1907

John Sparkes

John Sparkes

Principal of the Lambeth School of Arts 1858 - 1900. Born as John Charles Lewis Sparkes in Brixton. Began teaching at Lambeth in 1857. Cultivated a special relationship between the school and Doulton's neighbouring pottery works. Mutually beneficial to each organisation this resulted in a line of ‘art-pottery’, known as Doulton ware. Sparkes designed many of these items.

Headmaster and then Principal of the National Art Training School in South Kensington (later the Royal College of Art) 1875-98. Died Surrey. Mapping Sculpture and JSTOR are useful sources.

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John Sparkes

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Tinworth pillar

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William Blake

William Blake

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Richard Cosway

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Richard Ansdell

Richard Ansdell

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F. Cayley Robinson

F. Cayley Robinson

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Frank Mowbray Taubman

Frank Mowbray Taubman

Frank Mowbray Taubman was born on 13 June 1868 in Holloway, Middlesex (now Greater London), the second of the four children of Robert Taubman (1840-1905) and Fanny Taubman née Mountain (1845-1932)....

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