Artist. Born Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson in Hampstead, son of Henry Nevinson. He studied at the Slade School of Art alongside Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler. In WW1 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, which inspired a lot of his paintings.
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Christopher Nevinson
Henry Nevinson, 1856 - 1941, journalist; C. R. W. Nevinson, 1889 - 1946, arti...
Avant-garde artist, misician, peace activist, feminist. Born Japan. Met John Lennon when he visited a preview of her exhibition at the Indica Gallery at 6 Masons Yard, on 9 November 9, 1966.
Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in what is now Lebanon, emigrated as a young man with his family to US. Best known for The Prophet, 1923, popular in the 60s.
Born Bowman's Lodge, (now Bowman's Mews), the penultimate of 21 children. Artist and writer of nonsense works, such as The Owl and the Pussycat, and limericks, e.g. There was an old person of Putn...
Artist. Born in a flat at the site of the plaque as Maude Ethel Eades. Being illegitimate she was an embarrassment to her family, who sent her to a Dr Barnado's orphanage. She later went to Canada ...
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