Born Southampton. A prodigy, the youngest ever pupil at the Royal Academy School. Co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His friendship with Ruskin did not survive marrying the ex-Mrs Ruskin, Effie. Painted 'Bubbles'. The first artist to be knighted. President of the Royal Academy in 1896. Died at home, 2 Palace Gate, SW7, now marked with a plaque.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir John Everett Millais
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Millais, Hoppe & Bacon
National Art Collections Fund John Everett Millais, 1829 - 1896, Emil Otto ...
Millais statue
Millais helped found the Tate Gallery in the building behind. Peter Duby p...
Sir John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, Bt. PRA (1829 - 1896) painter, lived and died here....
V&A façade - Millais
The sculptor is elsewhere logged as James Alexander Stevenson but the niche g...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sir John Everett Millais
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Rossetti fountain
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
Other Subjects
National Gallery
In the late 1700s national galleries were all the rage in Europe. A number of countries nationalised their royal collections but the British government instead wanted to purchase a major collection...
2 memorials
Augustus John
Augustus Edwin John was born Tenby, Pembrokeshire. Painter, draughtsman and etcher, specialized in portrait painting. Famous subjects include T.E. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw and Dy...
3 memorials
Debbie Bunting
2018: Our colleague Andrew Behan provides: Deborah R. Friedlander, also spelt Freedlander was born on 13 August 1920, the daughter of Alfred Freedlander and Ethel Eleanor Freedlander née Stammers. ...
1 memorial
Julia Clara Pitt Byrne, née Busk
Writer and illustrator. 1842 married William Pitt Byrne and, when the time came, designed his memorial. Died at home, 16 Montagu Street.
1 memorial
Robert Gordon McHarg III
Opened the Subway Gallery in 2006.
1 memorial
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125 deaths on Tower Hill
Wikipedia lists only 36 (in 2011). Most of the victims that we have researched are recorded as having been beheaded but A London Inheritance, quoting John Stow (c. 1598), refers to "a large scaffo...
1 memorial
John Robert Collard Dunn
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
1 memorial
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