Person    | Male  Born 1/11/1500  Died 13/2/1571

Benvenuto Cellini

Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous autobiography and poetry.

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Benvenuto Cellini

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Royal Society of Arts

Royal Society of Arts

Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee House. They carried on meeting in coffee houses and taverns but as the society grew they needed more space. Shipley rented ...

Group, Art, Commerce

17 memorials
Charles Keene

Charles Keene

Artist and illustrator. Born Charles Samuel Keene in Duvals Lane, Hornsey. He studied law, but abandoned this in favour of illustrating. He became well known for his work in The Illustrated London ...

Person, Art

1 memorial
Marcus Stone

Marcus Stone

Born Marcus Clayton Stone in London, the son of artist Frank Stone who was friends with Thackeray and Dickens. Trained by his father, he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy before he was eighteen. ...

Person, Art

1 memorial
William Hogarth

William Hogarth

Satirical artist and illustrator. Trained as an engraver, he depicted the unseemly behaviour of contemporaries in works like 'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) and 'A Rake's Progress' (1732). Much of his ...

Person, Art, Seriously Famous

12 memorials
Frederick Richard Pickersgill

Frederick Richard Pickersgill

History painter.  Born London (probably 6 Northampton Street).   From about 1888 he lived at The Towers, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, where he died.

Person, Art

1 memorial