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Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maximilian [Max] (1872–1956), caricaturist and writer, was born at 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, London, on 24 August 1872 and was baptized on 16 October at the church of All Saints, Kensington. His father, Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm (1810–1892), of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, had come to ...
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Judy Egerton
Boyle [née Savile], Dorothy, countess of Burlington (1699–1758), portrait painter and caricaturist, was born in London on 13 September 1699 and baptized on 24 September at St James's, Piccadilly, the elder daughter of William Savile, second marquess of Halifax (1665–1700), and his second wife, ...
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Christopher Reeve
Bunbury, Henry William (1750–1811), artist and caricaturist, was born on 1 July 1750 at the Manor House, Mildenhall, Suffolk, the second son of the Revd Sir William Bunbury, fifth baronet (c.1710–1764) and vicar of Mildenhall, and his wife, Eleanor (d...
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Duncan Thomson
Coia, Emilio (1911–1997), caricaturist, was born at 244 Castle Street, Glasgow, on 13 April 1911, the son of Giovanni Coia, an ice-cream dealer, and his wife, Maria Salvatore. His parents, who had married in Govan in 1897, were part of that large émigré community of Italians who moved to ...
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Collier, John [pseud. Tim Bobbin] (1708–1786), satirist and caricaturist, was born at Church Lane, Urmston, Lancashire, on 16 December 1708. He was the third of nine children of John Collier, Church of England clergyman (c.1676–1739) and his wife, Mary Cook (...
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Collings, Samuel (d. 1793
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Cruikshank, George (1792–1878), graphic artist, was born on 27 September 1792, and baptized on 6 November at St George's, Bloomsbury Way, London, the second son of Isaac Cruikshank (1764–1811), caricaturist, and his wife, Mary, née MacNaughton (1769–1853). At the time the family lived at ...
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Cruikshank [Crookshanks], Isaac (1764–1811), caricaturist and painter, born on 5 October 1764 in the Canongate, Edinburgh, and baptized in the parish on 14 October, was the fifth child and third son of Andrew Crookshanks (c.1725–c.1783) and Elizabeth (b...
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Cruikshank, (Isaac) Robert (1789–1856), caricaturist and portrait painter, eldest son of Isaac Cruikshank (1764–1811) and his wife, Mary, née MacNaughton (1769–1853), was born on 27 September 1789 in St Martin's Court, London, and baptized on 25 October at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Three years later, around the time of his younger brother ...
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Maker: Walery
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Furniss, Henry [Harry] [pseud. Lika Joko] (1854–1925), caricaturist and illustrator, was born on 26 March 1854 in Wexford, Ireland, the first child of the second family of James Furniss, civil engineer, and his second wife, Isabella Cornelia, a miniature painter, daughter of ...
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Gillray, James (1756–1815), caricaturist, was born in Robinson's Lane, Chelsea, Middlesex, near London, on 13 August 1756, the third of the five children of James Gillray (1720–1799) of Culter, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and his wife, Jane Coleman (1716–1797), of Long Hope, Gloucestershire. The elder ...
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Gilroy, John Thomas Young (1898–1985), graphic artist and portrait painter, was born on 20 May 1898 at 4 Crawhall Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, the second son and the fourth of eight children of John William Gilroy, marine artist and technical draughtsman, and his wife, ...