A portraitist and landscape painter, he took a keen interest in industrial and scientific developments, experimenting in lighting effects and candlelit subjects. Wright travelled to Italy with his ...

and artists’ colourman stamp: ‘BROWN / 163 / HIGH HOLBORN’. Paper label (removed 1936) inscr. in ink: ‘“1854” Leslie’s Life. / “Portrait of John Everett Millais Esq / A.R.A” / “sold at the Painter’s ...

John Colborne entered the Army in 1794. He first saw active service in the Dutch Helder campaign of 1799 and took part in an expedition to Egypt two years later. Colborne served in the Peninsular War ...

The first black female officer in the British Army. Masson was born in Oxford and in 1931 travelled to Trinidad where she worked as a stenographer for Ford. She returned to Britain in 1943 to assist ...

Rich began his artistic career working for a firm of heraldic painters from 1870 until 1890, when he started studying at the Slade School of art. His first public exhibition was at his studio in ...

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Alexander worked as both architect and engineer. As Surveyor to the London Dock Company, 1796-1831, he was responsible for the early development of the London Docks, and also designed lighthouses and ...

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Given by the artist's granddaughter, Mona M. Brown, 1922 ...

African-American boxer, activist and philanthropist. Born in Kentucky as Cassius Clay he took up boxing as a teenager, carving a niche for himself as a professional. He changed his name when he ...

(1852-1929), Author and journalist; wife of Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard ...

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