Person    | Male  Born 15/4/1452  Died 2/5/1519

Leonardo da Vinci

Categories: Art, Science, Seriously Famous

Countries: Italy

Scientist, artist, etc. - a polymath, the first "renaissance man".
Born in Vinci, Italy (No? Really?). Died in France.

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Vitruvian man

This statue is a representation of 'The Vitruvian Man', a world-renowned draw...

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Hannah Barlow

Hannah Barlow

Born Bishop's Stortford. Studied at Lambeth School of Art where she was a student of John Sparkes. Began work at Doulton's in 1871, the first female employee, she specialised in painting animals. H...

Person, Art, Craft / Design

1 memorial
James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler

Painter and printmaker, born in Worthen Street, Lowell, Massachussetts. His family moved to Russia in 1843 and he received his first formal art instruction at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, St ...

Person, Art, Seriously Famous, Russia, USA

3 memorials
Peggy Fortnum

Peggy Fortnum

Illustrator. Born in Harrow, Margaret Fortnum has illustrated about 80 children's books, most famously the Paddington series from the beginning to 1974. Andrew Behan has researched Fortnum: Margar...

Person, Art

2 memorials
Sir Alfred Munnings

Sir Alfred Munnings

Born Mendham, Suffolk. Artist specializing in paintings of horses and an opponent of ‘modernism’. The loss of an eye in 1898 did not impair his ability to paint. Knighted 1944. Died at home in ...

Person, Art

2 memorials
National Gallery of Ireland

National Gallery of Ireland

Located in Merrion Square West, Dublin. The engineer William Dargan, wanting to emulate the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, set up an art exhibition in a series of pavilions. Such was its succes...

Building, Art, Ireland

1 memorial

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Frank Edward Flack

Frank Edward Flack

A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Giacomo Quattrucci
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Tunnel Trench - play

Tunnel Trench - play

A war play by Hubert Griffith, set in WW1. Shown as a ITV Play of the Week in 1963. This play opened The Duchess Theartre in 1929.

Fiction, Fictional, Theatre

1 memorial
Fusilier W. G. Heron

Fusilier W. G. Heron

Killed while serving with the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) in the Korean War, July 1952 to August 1953.

Person

War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Brunel statue - WC2

Brunel statue - WC2

WC2, Victoria Embankment

{On the plinth:} Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer, born 1806, died 1859.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator