Scientist, artist, etc. - a polymath, the first "renaissance man".
Born in Vinci, Italy (No? Really?). Died in France.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Leonardo da Vinci
Commemorated ati
Other Subjects
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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Frank Edward Flack
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.
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.
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.
Brunel statue - WC2
WC2, Victoria Embankment
{On the plinth:} Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer, born 1806, died 1859.
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