George Dance the younger
Architect. Son of the architect George Dance the Elder, one of the 4 original members of the Royal Academy, he designed Newgate Prison and St Luke's Hospital. John Soane was his pupil. We have see...
4 memorials
Thomas Daniell
Topographical artist. Born Kingston upon Thames. Studied art and set off for India in 1785 with William, his nephew, as assistant. On his return, after seven years in India, he spent most of the re...
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William Daniell
Artist and engraver of Indian scenes. Orphaned early, he was adopted by his uncle, Thomas Daniell, a landscape painter, and taken as his assistant to Indian, returning to London in 1794. Died at ho...
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Jerome Davenport
Australian graffiti artist with the Twitter/Instagram handle @ketones6000.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Scientist, artist, etc. - a polymath, the first "renaissance man". Born in Vinci, Italy (No? Really?). Died in France.
3 memorials
Mabel Dearmer
Novelist, playwright, translator and illustrator. Â Born Jessie Mabel Prichard White, daughter of Surgeon-Major William White. Her illustrations were accepted by the Yellow Book. 1892 married Percy ...
War dead, WW1
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Philip de Laszlo
Painter. Born Budapest. Â In 1907 moved to London and stayed, though he often travelled for portrait commissions which included many royal families. His good relations with what became the enemy in...
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Gunter Demnig
Born Berlin. From Stolpersteine: The artist Gunter Demnig remembers the victims of National Socialism by installing commemorative brass plaques in the pavement in front of their last address of ch...
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Dorothy Dene
Actress and artist's model. Born Ada Alice Pullen in New Cross. Her theatrical career took her to New York, but she had little success there. As a model, she became the muse of Frederick Leighton, ...
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