Ackermann, George (1803–1891), publisher and artist, was born in London on 29 January 1803, the second surviving son of Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834) and Martha, née Massey (1769–1811). By nature quiet, gentle, and something of a dreamer, he was nevertheless an obedient son and began a long and active business career by joining his father's business as publisher of books and prints at ...
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Ackermann, George (1803–1891), publisher and artist
John Ford
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Allom, Thomas (1804–1872), architect and artist
Diana Brooks
Allom, Thomas (1804–1872), architect and artist, was born on 13 March 1804 at Lambeth, the second of the two children of Thomas Allom (1770–1840), a coachman, and his wife, Martha Rampley (1771–1861), who were both originally from Suffolk. He was articled to the architect ...
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Allom, Thomas (1804–1872)
Maker: Thomas Carrick
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Thomas Allom (1804–1872) by Thomas Carrick, 1846 private collection
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Andrews, Michael James (1928–1995), artist
William Feaver
Andrews, Michael James (1928–1995), artist, was born on 30 October 1928 at 142 Glebe Road, Norwich, the second child of Thomas Victor Andrews, an insurance clerk, and his wife, Gertrude Emma, née Green. Reared a Methodist and readied by his parents for a job for life in the ...
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Angas, George French (1822–1886), artist and zoologist
Elizabeth Baigent
Angas, George French (1822–1886), artist and zoologist, born on 25 April 1822 in Newcastle upon Tyne, was the eldest son of George Fife Angas (1789–1879) and his wife, Rosetta French (1796–1867), who had three sons and four daughters. When he was a child his family moved to ...
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Anson, Peter Frederick (1889–1975), monk, writer, and artist
Michael Yelton
Anson, Peter Frederick (1889–1975), monk, writer, and artist, was born Frederick Charles Anson on 22 August 1889 at 32 South Parade, Southsea, the son of Charles Eustace Anson (1858–1940), subsequently rear-admiral, and his wife, (Maria) Evelyn, née Ross (1863–1904). His father came from a family with strong connections to the ...
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Anson, Peter Frederick (1889–1975)
Maker: Howard Coster
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Peter Frederick Anson (1889–1975) by Howard Coster, 1933 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Ardizzone, Edward Jeffery Irving (1900–1979), artist and writer
Brian Alderson
revised by Judy Taylor
Ardizzone, Edward Jeffery Irving (1900–1979), artist and writer, was born on 16 October 1900 in Haiphong, French Indo-China. He was the eldest child of Auguste Ardizzone (d. 1942), a naturalized Frenchman of Italian parentage, an employee of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company...
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Ardizzone, Edward Jeffery Irving (1900–1979)
Maker: Howard Coster
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Edward Jeffery Irving Ardizzone (1900–1979) by Howard Coster, 1954 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Armfield, Maxwell Ashby (1881–1972), artist and writer
Peyton Skipwith
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Armfield, Maxwell Ashby (1881–1972), artist and writer, was born at Ringwood, Hampshire, on 5 October 1881, the eldest of the three children of Joseph John Armfield, a milling engineer, and his wife, Margaret Maxwell, a lineal descendant of the earls of Nithsdale. The ...
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Armstrong, Thomas (1832–1911), artist and applied arts administrator
Lionel Robinson
revised by Neil Sharp
Armstrong, Thomas (1832–1911), artist and applied arts administrator, was born at Fallowfield, Manchester, on 19 October 1832, the eldest son of Thomas Armstrong and his wife, Sarah. Educated at a private school at Tarvin, near Chester, he initially began work in his family's cotton business in ...
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Baines, (John) Thomas (1820–1875)
Maker: unknown photographer
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(John) Thomas Baines (1820–1875) by unknown photographer, 1860s The Royal Geographical Society, London
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Baines, (John) Thomas (1820–1875), artist and explorer
Elizabeth Baigent
Baines, (John) Thomas (1820–1875), artist and explorer, was born on 27 November 1820 at King's Lynn, Norfolk, the second son and one of three surviving children of Mary Ann Watson and John Thomas Baines, a master mariner. His father and maternal grandfather were amateur artists, his brother ...
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Baker, William [name in religion Anselm] (1833–1885), heraldic artist and mural painter
Thompson Cooper
revised by Anne Pimlott Baker
Baker, William [name in religion Anselm] (1833–1885), heraldic artist and mural painter, was born in Birmingham on 23 January 1833, the son of Thomas Baker, a coach painter. He appears to have worked as a gun-stocker, and he learned to paint and draw at the ...
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Barnard, Lambert (d. 1567/8), painter and calligrapher
Robert Tittler
Barnard, Lambert (d. 1567/8), painter and calligrapher, may have been the son of a Dutch émigré rumoured to have come to England in the latter decades of the fifteenth century (Croft-Murray, 110), but further details of his parents and place of birth are unknown. He was perhaps born in the early 1490s, as his son ...
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Batty, Robert (1789–1848), army officer and artist
John Sweetman
Batty, Robert (1789–1848), army officer and artist, was born in London on 5 August 1789, son of the obstetric physician, medical journal editor, and amateur artist Dr Robert Batty (1762–1849) and his wife, Ann, née Braithwaite. After attending school in Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland...
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Bentley, Richard (bap. 1708, d. 1782), writer and artist
Loftus Jestin
Bentley, Richard (bap. 1708, d. 1782), writer and artist, was baptized on 3 June 1708 at All Saints', Cambridge, the youngest of the four children and only surviving son of Dr Richard Bentley (1662–1742), master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and his wife, Joanna Bernard (...
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Berlin, Sven Paul (1911–1999), artist and writer
John Paddy Browne
Berlin, Sven Paul (1911–1999), artist and writer, was born on 14 September 1911 at 6 South Terrace, Fairlawn Park, Sydenham, in south-east London, the second of the three children of Karl Gustave Hermann Berlin (1885–1972), a Swedish paper merchant (and nephew of the explorer ...
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Berlin, Sven Paul (1911–1999)
Maker: Stanley Devon
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Sven Paul Berlin (1911–1999) by Stanley Devon, 1952 © News International Newspapers Ltd
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Blake, William (1757–1827), engraver, artist, and poet
Robert N. Essick
Blake, William (1757–1827), engraver, artist, and poet, was born on 28 November 1757 at 28 Broad Street, Soho, London, the third son of James Blake (1723?–1784), a hosier, and his wife, Catherine, née Wright (1723–1792), the widow of Thomas Armitage. Blake had four brothers, ...
