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Anna Mill

Person, Art

Lee Miller

Fashion model and photographer.  Born New York. Worked closely with Man Ray in Paris and worked within the surrealist movement, starring in Jean Cocteau's film "Le sang d'un poète". Married an Egyp...

Person, Art, Egypt, France, USA

Carol Misch

Person, Art

László Moholy-Nagy

Painter, photographer and film-maker. Born László Weisz in Bácsborsód, Hungary, he changed his surname to that of his mother's lawyer friend, (Wikipedia says maternal uncle) who had helped when the...

Person, Art, Photography, Germany, Hungary, USA

Gerald Moira

Gerald Edward Moira was an English painter best known for his murals. Born in London, the son of a former Portuguese diplomat. His first commission was a mural for J. Lyons and Co., for the Trocad...

Person, Art

Leo Mol

Artist and sculptor. Born Leonid Molodozhanyn in Polonne, Ukraine. Studied at the Leningrad Academy of Arts. After living in Germany and The Hague, he emigrated to Canada in 1948. A prolific artist...

Person, Art, Canada, Ukraine

Piet Mondrian

Painter.  Born the Netherlands.  September 1938, avoiding the Nazis, he moved to Hampstead and, assisted by Ben Nicholson, rented a room in the house with the plaque.  He painted it white, includin...

Person, Art, Seriously Famous, Netherlands

Lady Ottoline Morrell

Literary hostess and patron of the arts. Died in a clinic at Tunbridge Wells. Her Wikipedia page gives much information about her life and confirms that she was born on 6 June 1873 as Ottoline Vio...

Person, Art, Literature

Arthur Morrison

Writer and novelist. Born at 14 John Street, Poplar. He wrote detective novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. His best known work was 'A Child of the Jago', set in a fic...

Person, Art, Literature

William Morris (designer)

Designer, author and visionary socialist.  Born Elm House, Walthamstow, Essex. The family moved to Woodford Hall in 1840 and to Water House in 1848. He moved in with his friend Edward Burne-Jones f...

Person, Art, Craft / Design, Literature, Seriously Famous, Iceland / Faroe Islands