Vivienne (Florence Vivienne Entwistle, née Mellish) (1889-1982), Photographer, miniaturist, singer. Artist or producer associated with 214 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait. Following the Soviet and ...

William George Aston was a British consular official in Japan and Korea. He made a major contribution to the fledgling study of Japan's language and history (Japanology) in the nineteenth century.

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Discovered by the Earl of Arundel, centenarian Thomas Parr dies, it is claimed, at the age of 152. Richard Weston, Earl of Portland dies. Though unpopular in the Commons, Portland was an effective ...

A leading Suffragette, Christabel Pankhurst was one of the primary strategists of the campaign for women’s right to vote in the first decades of the twentieth century. Throughout the nineteenth ...

Soldier, member of the Kit-Cat Club; sty. Viscount Malden till 1683 when succeeded as 2nd Earl; fought in all the campaigns of William III; colonel 1693, brigadier-general 1702, major-general 1704, ...

As a child, Dr Crotch, the musician and composer, was known as 'the musical phenomenon of Norwich'. He began his professional career as organist of Christ Church, Oxford, at the age of fifteen, and ...

A selection of portraits from 1485 to 1603, many of which are on display at the Gallery or at Montacute House, our regional partner in Somerset. Portraits below are listed in chronological order.

Jeffrey Hudson was a dwarf who belonged to the court of Queen Henrietta Maria of England in the years before King Charles I was deposed. He was famous as the 'Queen's dwarf', and 'Lord Minimus', and ...

William Hazeldine trained initially as a millwright, but soon changed to become an iron-founder. He first came to prominence in 1796-7 when he cast the world's first iron-framed building, Ditherington ...

Kar photographed Riley at her second exhibition at Gallery One, 16 North Audley Street, London, in September 1963. This was the final show before Victor Musgrave closed the gallery, saying 'It has ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds was elected the Royal Academy of Art's first president in its founding year in 1768. His presidency was critical in establishing many of the characteristics that would define this ...