Adams, Norman Edward Albert (1927–2005), artist, was born on 9 February 1927 in a flat at 74 Shernhall Street, Walthamstow, Essex, the only child of Albert Henry Adams (1900–1975), a London Transport clerk, and his wife, Elizabeth Winifred Rose, née Humphries (1906–2000). The family moved shortly afterwards to ...
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Adams, Norman Edward Albert (1927–2005), artist
Magdalen Evans
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Bawden, Edward (1903–1989)
Maker: Howard Coster
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Edward Bawden (1903–1989) by Howard Coster, 1946 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bawden, Edward (1903–1989), painter and designer
David Gentleman
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Bawden, Edward (1903–1989), painter and designer, was born on 10 March 1903 in Braintree, Essex, the only child of Edward Bawden, a Braintree ironmonger of Cornish stock, and his wife, Eleanor Game, the daughter of a Suffolk gamekeeper. He went to Braintree high school...
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Bloch, Martin (1883–1954), painter and graphic artist
Jutta Vinzent
Bloch, Martin (1883–1954), painter and graphic artist, was born on 16 November 1883 in Neisse, Upper Silesia, the younger of two children of Maximilian Bloch (1852–1932), a textile factory owner, and his wife, Margarete, née Mosse (d. 1942), who died in a concentration camp in ...
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Cattaneo, Ambrogio Antonio [Tony] (1927–2003), animator
Anne Pimlott Baker
Cattaneo, Ambrogio Antonio [Tony] (1927–2003), animator, was born on 15 February 1927 at 53 Hamilton Road, West Norwood, London, the son of Dante Cattaneo, a chef at the Savoy Hotel, originally from Gravedona, near Como, Italy, then living at 41 Burton Street, Euston Road, London...
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Cruikshank, George (1792–1878), graphic artist
Robert L. Patten
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, George (1792–1878)
Maker: Daniel Maclise
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George Cruikshank (1792–1878) by Daniel Maclise, 1833 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Fitton, James (1899–1982), painter and designer
Frederick Gore
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Fitton, James (1899–1982), painter and designer, was born on 11 February 1899 in Herbert Street, Oldham, Lancashire, the second son and youngest of three children of James Fitton, iron plater and union leader, and his wife, Janet Chadwick, mill weaver. He was educated at the ...
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Gilroy, John Thomas Young (1898–1985)
Maker: John Thomas Young Gilroy
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John Thomas Young Gilroy (1898–1985) self-portrait Garrick Club / the art archive
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Gilroy, John Thomas Young (1898–1985), graphic artist and portrait painter
David Bernstein
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, ...
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Guyatt, Richard Gerald Talbot [Dick] (1914–2007), graphic designer
Christopher Frayling
Guyatt, Richard Gerald Talbot [Dick] (1914–2007), graphic designer, was born on 8 May 1914 in La Coruña, Galicia, Spain, the third son and last of the six children of Thomas Guyatt (1872–1924), British vice-consul at La Coruña and later consul at Vigo, and his wife, ...
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James [née Calkin], Margaret Bernard (1895–1985), designer, calligrapher, and painter
Betty Miles
James [née Calkin], Margaret Bernard (1895–1985), designer, calligrapher, and painter, was born on 23 February 1895 at 22 Holmdale Road, West Hampstead, London, the third of seven children of Harry Bernard Calkin (1861–1926), who married Margaret Agnes Palfrey (1870–1936) in 1890. He was in insurance and became a ...
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Kauffer, Edward McKnight (1890–1954)
Maker: Carl Van Vechten
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Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954) by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 © The Van Vechten Trust; National Portrait Gallery, London
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Kauffer, Edward McKnight (1890–1954), artist and graphic designer
Mark Haworth-Booth
Kauffer, Edward McKnight (1890–1954), artist and graphic designer, was born Edward Kauffer in Great Falls, Cascade county, Montana, USA, on 14 December 1890, the only son of John and Anna Kauffer. His parents were first- and second-generation immigrants to the United States, his father of Hanseatic German stock, his mother of Swedish origin. ...
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Knowles, Reginald Lionel (1879–1950), book designer and illustrator
Alan Horne
Knowles, Reginald Lionel (1879–1950), book designer and illustrator, was born on 4 March 1879 at 16 Plimsoll Street, Poplar, in east London, the second son of Ebenezer Caleb Knowles, an author and musician who worked as a merchant's clerk, a native of Worcestershire...
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Kramer, Jacob (1892–1962), painter and graphic artist
Monica Bohm-Duchen
Kramer, Jacob (1892–1962), painter and graphic artist, was born on 26 December 1892 in Klintsy, in the province of Chernigov in Ukraine, the only son of Max (Meir) Kramer (d. 1915), a court painter who worked in a naturalistic style and who had studied under ...
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Leete, Alfred Ambrose Chew (1882–1933), graphic artist
Jim Aulich
Leete, Alfred Ambrose Chew (1882–1933), graphic artist, was born in Thorpe Achurch, Northampton, on 28 August 1882, the eldest of the five surviving children of John Alfred Leete, farmer, and his wife, Harriet Eliza, née Chew. In 1893 his father's ill health prompted the family to move to ...
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Meidner, Ludwig Baruch (1884–1966), painter and graphic artist
Jutta Vinzent
Meidner, Ludwig Baruch (1884–1966), painter and graphic artist, was born on 18 April 1884 in Bernstadt, Silesia, one of four children of Gustav Georg Meidner (b. c.1818), a textile merchant, and his wife, Rosa Glogauer (d. 1942). Meidner grew up in a Jewish family who owned a textile shop. In 1901 he started training as a bricklayer in preparation for the study of architecture. Two years later he began studying drawing at the ...
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Paolozzi, Sir Eduardo Luigi (1924–2005)
Maker: Ida Kar
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Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (1924–2005) by Ida Kar, 1959 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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