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Nothing is known of his early life, training or parentage, but in 1537 William Scrots was appointed painter to Mary of Hungary, Regent of the Netherlands. In 1545, he went to England to take up a ...

Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, was widely considered one of the most handsome men of his time. He is best remembered for the fifteen-year affair he had with Henrietta Frances (Harriet) ...

Hicks first became involved in activism during the 1884 campaign to give agricultural laborers the vote. Around this time Hicks also began to organise meetings across East Anglia on women's suffrage.

Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe) (1887-1940), Feminist activist, artist and writer. Artist or producer associated with 99 portraits, Sitter associated with 64 portraits.

This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as ...

Mike McCartney, brother of Paul McCartney and formerly a member of skiffle group the Scaffold, photographed life in working-class Liverpool during the 'Merseybeat' era and the rise of Beatlemania.

Founder of British Inland Navigation; the Worsley canal was built for him by James Brindley to transport coal to Manchester from his mines at Worsley. The unusual design carried the canal by aqueduct ...