Person    | Male  Born 28/10/1925  Died 27/3/2006

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Categories: Art, Sculpture

Countries: Caribbean Islands, Scotland

Poet, writer, artist and gardener. Born in the Bahamas to Scottish parents and brought up in Scotland. Studied at Glasgow School of Art. Combined his interests by installing concrete poetry in his self-created garden at Little Sparta, near Edinburgh. Died Edinburgh.

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Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Princess Diana - Serpentine Gallery

"The beauty of trees..." is a quotation from Hutcheson.

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George Lookwood (Slim of Peckham)

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Peter De Wint

Peter De Wint

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Sir Frederic William Burton

Sir Frederic William Burton

Born County Clare, Ireland. Watercolour painter and art administrator. Appointed director of the National Gallery 1874 and knighted in 1884. Died 43 Argyle Road, Kensington.

Person, Art, Museums / Libraries, Ireland

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Virginia Nimarkoh

Virginia Nimarkoh

Artist based in London.

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5 memorials
William Morris (designer)

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

15 memorials