Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Artist, sculptor. Born Devonshire Street. Designer of the prehistoric 'monsters' original made for and exhibited at the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park but now in Crystal Palace Park. They were moved...
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Benjamin Haydon
Historical painter and diarist. Born Plymouth. Not a successful man; Haydon's biographer, Paul O'Keefe, says that Haydon has been called "the William McGonagall of British painting". One morning af...
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Alfred Head (architect)
Born Holloway. Islington artist and Borough Architect for Islington 1968-83. the Riviera Reporter contains an interview with Alfred Head.
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Thomas Hearne
Thomas Hearne was born on 22 September 1744 in Marshfield, Gloucestershire, the son of William and Prudence Hearne. He was baptised on 26 September 1744 in St Mary the Virgin Church, Marshfield. H...
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John Heartfield
Born Helmut Herzfeld in the outskirts of Berlin. Changed his name in 1917 in protest at the anti-British feelings in Germany. Fleeing the Nazis in 1938 he came to England where he was interned for ...
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Vernon Hill
Sculptor and illustrator.  Born Halifax, Yorkshire.  Other work in London in St Columba's Church, Pont Street and Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Hanwell.
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Damien Hirst
Artist. Born Damien Steven Brennan in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. One of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK in the 1990s. In 2024, reportedly the UK's richest...
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David Hockney
Artist.  Born Bradford.  Lived in California for many years.  Passionately anti-anti-smoking, like fellow artist Maggie Hambling.
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William Hogarth
Satirical artist and illustrator. Trained as an engraver, he depicted the unseemly behaviour of contemporaries in works like 'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) and 'A Rake's Progress' (1732). Much of his ...
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Hans Holbein the Younger
Londonist have a post about the Holbein Gate in Whitehall which probably had nothing to do with Holbein.
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