"Helping museums and galleries buy art for everyone to enjoy". Previously known as the National Art Collections Fund.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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Burghers of Calais
Created for the town square in Calais following France's devastating defeat i...
Millais, Hoppe & Bacon
National Art Collections Fund John Everett Millais, 1829 - 1896, Emil Otto ...
Windrush fruit
The plaque is laid into the paving to the east of the fruit. Reading our phot...
Windrush Hackney statue
The title is 'Warm Shores'. From Hackney: "The two 9ft bronze figures are bas...
Other Subjects
Sir Frederic William Burton
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.
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...
John Tallis
Cartographic publisher. He set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842, moving to Smithfield in 1846. The company published views of London and world atlases. He started 'The...
George du Maurier
Artist and writer. Born Paris. Punch cartoonist. 1894 wrote the novel Trilby, from which comes the term "Svengali". In Hampstead lived at 4 Holly Mount, moved to Gangmoor House facing Whitestone P...
Person, Art, Humour, Literature, France
Samuel Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on 27 April 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA. He was an artist who travelled to Italy, Switzerland ,France and England where in 1811 he gained admittance...
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Nell Gwynne
Eleanor Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne, whatever. Born Hereford. Rumoured to have lived at Lauderdale House as the mistress of Charles II, where she dangled her first-born from a window to scare the King int...
Penny Post
First established in London in 1680 by William Dockwra and his business partner, Robert Murray, operating only within the City of London, the City of Westminter and Southwark. From 1765 similar ser...
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