Born Hartlepool. Painter. He met and became friends with Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1864, who along with John Ruskin gave him practical help in his work. From 1865 to 1867 he collaborated on a group portrait of Queen Victoria and her family, which he described as a period of ‘hateful slavery’. Died Morayfield, Kingston Road, Merton.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Frederic James Shields
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
Participants in the creation of the Will Crooks mural.
Opened the Subway Gallery in 2006.
Artist. Born Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone of French/Italian stock in Haiphong, Tonkin (modern day Vietnam) where his father was working at the time. He came to Britain in 1905, and eventually st...
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