Person    | Male  Born 14/10/1900  Died 23/4/1984

Sir Roland Penrose

Categories: Art

Surrealist artist, writer and exhibition organiser. Born at 44 Finchley Road. Brought the first Picasso painting for display in London, in the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition which he organised. Arranged for Guernica to tour Britain. 1949 - co-founder of the INstitute of Contemporary Arts. Wrote a biography of Picasso. Husband of Lee Miller.   Died at home, Farley Farm, Chiddingly, Sussex.

Our picture shows him (left) with Picasso (right).

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Sir Roland Penrose

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Miller & Penrose

Unveiled by Sir David Hare (planning a film about Lee Miller) and Antony Penr...

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Henry Stacy Marks

Henry Stacy Marks

Artist specialising in birds.  Born 92 Great Portland Street.  Died at home, 5 St Edmund's Terrace, Regent's Park.  The picture is a self-portrait.

Person, Art

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William Strang

William Strang

Painter and etcher. Born  Dumbarton, aged 17 came to the Slade School of Art and stayed in London. Illustrated the works of John Bunyan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling. A Google image ...

Person, Art, Scotland

1 memorial
Thomas Allom

Thomas Allom

Architect and artist.  Born Lambeth.  Founding member of RIBA.  Travelled extensively and illustrated topographical publications. Waymarking has the text of a 1997 paper by Leslie du Cane which sa...

Person, Architecture, Art

1 memorial
Royal Society of Arts Murals

Royal Society of Arts Murals

Painted by the artist James Barry. They show, 'Orpheus', 'A Grecian Harvest-Home', 'Crowning the Victors at Olympia', 'Commerce or the Triumph of the Thames', 'The Distribution of Premiums in the S...

Group, Art

1 memorial