John Everett Millais

John Everett Millais

male, deceased (1896)
Throat cancer death, buried at St Paul's Cathedral, illustrator, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, From Southampton, Royal Academician…Royal Academy, Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, PresidentoftheRoyalAcademy, Order of Release, Royal Academy of Arts
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (June 8, 1829 - August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the...
Frederick Leighton

Frederick Leighton

male
married, lord, PresidentoftheRoyalAcademy
Frederick Leighton was the virtuoso among Victorian classical artists, truly the Jove among the Victorian Olympians. Renowned for his noble...

Edward Poynter

male
director, PresidentoftheRoyalAcademy, lecturer, The National, Director of the National Gallery, artist…Royal Academy of Arts
Sir Edward Poynter was knighted in 1896, made a baronet in 1902, and given the KCVO in 1918, was very much more than a practising artist. He was a...

Hugh Maxwell Casson

male
married, prolific and accomplished water colourist, director, Royal Mint Advisory Committee, Royal Fine Art Commission, Indian Civil Service…Royal Academy, royal, Council of the National Trust, Royal Academician, Director of Architecture
Hugh Casson 's contribution to the world of committees and commissions was increasing and ran like a thread through his other work. He was on the...

Frederic Leighton

male
Royal Academy, PresidentoftheRoyalAcademy, arguably the greatest of High Victorian painters
Frederic Leighton had an extraordinary and far-ranging talent; as a painter this is recognisable in his works, from his large-scale Academy...

David Davies Cbe

male
ministry of defence, chancellor, BG Group, Loughborough University of Technology, Deputy Prime Minister, Chief Scientific Adviser…PresidentoftheRoyalAcademy
Sir David Davies CBE (64) Sir David Davies has been President of the Royal Academy of Engineering since June 1996. He was formerly Chief...

E. H. Shepard

PresidentoftheRoyalAcademy, Colet Court School, Wood Preparatory School
E. H. Shepard was born on 10 December 1879 in St John's Wood, London, the son of Henry Dunkin Shepard, an architect and amateur painter. His...

Hugh Casson

male
Director of Architecture, PresidentoftheRoyalAcademy
Sir Hugh Casson (1910-99) was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and had a long and distinguished career as an architect. He was Director...