Cartographic publisher. He set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842, moving to Smithfield in 1846. The company published views of London and world atlases. He started 'The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages' in 1858.
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John Tallis
Greater London Council John Tallis, 1816 - 1876, publisher of London street v...
Artist, born in Edinburgh. In 1933 he won a scholarship to the Edinburgh College of Art. In 1938 he was made a fellow of the college at the relatively young age of 31. He studied in Paris at the Ac...
South London artist who has created work similar to the Charlton Athletic mural all over south-east London and Kent, e.g. Brockley, Hither Green, Lee, Forest Hill and Plumstead. He has completed ov...
In 2009 we were contacted by Alexander Ferguson Moran (Fergus), saying his granddaughter’s husband’s great grandfather was Robert Ryder, VC.  Fergus could not easily get to London to investigate th...
Painter. Former President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and Chairman of the Contemporary Portrait Society. His subjects include Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Bill ...
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