Person    | Male  Born 1821  Died 1893

Giovanni Fontana

Categories: Sculpture

Countries: Italy

Giovanni Fontana

Born Italy. Based in London and naturalized British by 1871.

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Giovanni Fontana

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Albert Grant & Shakespeare

"There is no darkness but ignorance" is a quote from "Twelfth Night". The scu...

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Martin Ludlow

Martin Ludlow

Sculptor.  From minutes of the Trustees committee: "Martin was the visionary, designer, sculptor, diplomat, executor and custodian of the Flame. He, alone in Methodism, was able to carry this off w...

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Thomas Wyon

Thomas Wyon

Engraver and medallist.  Born Birmingham, his father Thomas also being an engraver as were a number of other (male, obviously) members of his family such as Edward Wyon, his brother.  Chief engrave...

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Colin Dudley DFC

Colin Dudley DFC

Sculptor.  From the picture source: "He has written books on architectural history and is a talented artist. As well as doing a tour of ops as a Halifax Navigator with 578 squadron."

Person, Armed Forces, Sculpture, Australia

1 memorial
Cyril Mann

Cyril Mann

Painter and sculptor.  Born London but brought up in Nottingham.  Despite a scholarship (aged 12!) to study art at Nottingham Art School he left school and in 1927 went to Canada doing the sort of ...

Person, Art, Sculpture, Canada, France

1 memorial
William Bateman Fagan

William Bateman Fagan

Born Bermondsey. Andrew Behan's researches have found that when he was baptised on 7 April 1872 at St Mary Newington Church, Lambeth his date of birth was recorded as 3 September 1860. Lots of inte...

Person, Sculpture

12 memorials

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Charles Anderson

Charles Anderson

Clerk of Works responsible for the construction of the Northern Outfall Sewer in 1862-3.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
The Waterloo Way

The Waterloo Way

Following victory at the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington’s personal handwritten record of events, the Waterloo Dispatch, was carried to London by Major Henry Percy, an aide de camp to th...

Place, Armed Forces, Transport

2 memorials