Born Latvia. First visited London in 1926. The Picture Source website provides a biography. Married Richard Hare and built, with him, Dorich House which is where she died and is now a museum.
For more information on this sculptor we suggest the book ‘Working Against the Grain: Women Sculptors in Britain c.1885-1950’ by Pauline Rose.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Dora Gordine
Sun Yat-Sen, 1866 - 1925, father of the Chinese Republic, lived in a house on...
Sculptor. Apprenticed for 7 years with her parents, sculptors Lorne McKean FRBS and Edwin Russell FRBS. Other works in London: Minerva at Minerva plc HQ, Wigmore Street (2005);The Hands of Justice ...
Sculptor and medallist. On the page about his brother, Geoffrey, Wikipedia says "The eldest {sibling}, Theodore Spicer-Simson, became a world-famous medallion portrait artist, moving between France...
Poet, sculptor and performance artist. Born London.
In 2006 a final year sculpture student at Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London.
Architect. Born in Greenwich. Articled to Thomas Allom. Emigrated to Sydney in 1885 on account of his wife's tuberculosis, but she was to die just 3 years later. 1921-4 he was chairman of the Feder...
At the time the address was 9 Queens Wood Avenue.
Unit of soldiers raised in Manchester during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, supporting Charles Stewart against George II. 300 volunteers commanded by Francis Towneley. They withdrew to Carlisle whi...
Born Darjeeling, India. She and her husband Laurence Olivier, managed the St James's Theatre from 1950 to its closure in 1957. She led a vigorous but unsuccessful campaign to try and save it. Die...
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