At eighteen Blundell became a farm hand in Kenya, later buying a farm at Solai in the Rift valley. His political career began in 1948 when he became elected Member of Parliament in the Kenyan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boshier was born in Devon and studied at Yeovil School of Art and Guildford College of Art. As a Royal College of Art student, he was associated with Pop, but differed in his use of satire. His work ...

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 ...

Active from 1929 as a photojournalist, Felix Man emigrated to London in 1934 where he was chief photographer for Picture Post from 1938-45. NPG retrospective, Felix H. Man: Reportage Portraits 1929-76 ...

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Artist, writer on art, poet and collector, Roland Penrose was the instigator of the International Surrealist Exhibition held in London at the New Burlington Galleries in 1936. The work of European ...

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The Grosevenor Gallery opens, founded by Sir Coutts Lindsay, as a rival to the Royal Academy. It exhibited work by artists such as Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Crane, outside of the British ...