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Nicholas Revett
Architect. Born in Framlingham, Suffolk. He went to Rome in 1742 to study under Marco Benefiale. In 1750 he travelled to Athens with James Stuart to record the antiquities. He incorporated some of ...
Person, Architecture, Art, Greece, Italy
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Born in Plympton, Devonshire. Came to London in 1753. As a student of Italian art, his work became increasingly classical under the influence of the Bolognese school. In 1768 he was elected the fir...
15 memorials
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George Richmond
History and portrait painter. Born: Brompton. Died London. Buried Highgate Cemetery (the new, east, section)
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Sir William Blake Richmond
Born 10 York Street. Painter. He entered the Royal Academy in 1858, winning two silver medals. His reputation rests on his portraiture of many prominent people. His painting of the Princess of Wal...
1 memorial
Charles Ricketts
Charles de Sousy Ricketts. Artist, illustrator, author. Half French he was born in Geneva and brought up in Switzerland, London, France. He met his life partner, Charles Shannon, on his 16th birthd...
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William Roberts
Artist. Founder member of the short-lived British Vorticist group and a WW1 war artist.The William Roberts Society's website (see Picture Source) has much information, especially on the house in...
1 memorial
F. Cayley Robinson
Frederick Arthur Cayley Robinson. Painter and book illustrator. Born Brentford, Middlesex. In 1914 moved with his wife and daughter into 1 Lansdowne House. That same year he began 10 years as a...
1 memorial
William Heath Robinson
Comic artist and illustrator. Born in Finsbury Park. He started his career as a book illustrator, and during WW1 began drawing cartoons of unlikely secret weapons. His later works of wonderfully co...
2 memorials
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