Sydney Smirke

Sydney Smirke

male, deceased (1877)
newcastle upon tyne, John Dobson, Carlton Club, whitehaven, Royal Institute of British Architect, york minster…BritishMuseum, Imperial War Museum, British Museum Reading Room
Sydney Smirke (1798 - 8 December1877) was London born English architect during the 19th century, and the younger brother of architect Sir Robert...

Nigel Barley

male, 62 years old
English, Anthropology writer, Alumni of the University of Oxford, Travel writer, Kingston upon Thames, Alumni of the University of Cambridge…BritishMuseum
Nigel Barley (b. 1947, Kingston upon Thames, England) is an anthropologist famous for the books he has written on his experiences. He studied...

John Boyd

male
ambassador, British ambassador to Japan, Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Japan, British diplomat in East Asia, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, Churchill College…BritishMuseum, British Nuclear Fuels PLC, British people in Japan, British
Sir John Dixon Ikle Boyd KCMG (born January 17th 1936) was the master of Churchill College, Cambridge from 1996 to 2006. He has also been the...
John Stow

John Stow

male, deceased (1605)
Lime Street ward, Lime Street, tudor, From London, Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, BritishMuseum
John Stow (c. 1525-6 April 1605), was an English historian and antiquarian. The son of Thomas Stow, a tallow-chandler, he was born about 1525 in...

Martin Carver

male
Society of Antiquaries of London, fsa, Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit, Field Archaeology Specialists Ltd., Martin Oswald Hugh Carver, Birmingham Archaeology…British, BritishMuseum
Martin Oswald Hugh Carver <small>FSA</small> BSc (London), Dip.Archaeol. (Durham), MIFA, is Professor of Archaeology at the University of York,...
Alphonse Legros

Alphonse Legros

male, deceased (1911)
medalist, BritishMuseum, lyon, etcher, painter, dijon
Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher, was born in Dijon. his father was an accountant, and came from the neighbouring village of Veronnes. Young...
Frederic G. Kenyon

Frederic G. Kenyon

male, deceased (1952)
British Museum director, Magdalen College, Oxford, British Academy, biblical, new testament, fsa…Order of the British Empire, British, BritishMuseum, British School of Archaeology
Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE KCB TD FBA FSA (15 January 1863-23 August 1952) was a British paleographer, biblical and classical scholar. He was...
Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

male, deceased (1823)
The Great Belzoni, Ramesseum, Henry Salt, Mehemet Ali, J. L. Burckhardt, Astley's Amphitheatre…BritishMuseum
Giovanni Battista Belzoni; sometimes known as The Great Belzoni (November 15 1778 - December 3, 1823) was a prolific Italian explorer of Egyptian...
Richard Payne Knight

Richard Payne Knight

male, deceased (1824)
BritishMuseum, Society of Dilettanti, Art collector, paganism, Art critic, phallic
Richard Payne Knight (15 February 1750 - 23 April 1824) was a classical scholar and connoisseur best known for his theories of picturesque beauty...

Lysippos

male
Oil pourer, Polyclitean canon, Naples National Archeological Museum, ideal, Horses of Saint Mark, Farnese Herakles…Naples Archeological Museum, BritishMuseum
Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Lysippos, Skopas and Praxiteles are considered the three great sculptors of the Classical...