Elias Ashmole

Elias Ashmole

male, deceased (1692)
from Bradfield, Berkshire, from Windsor, Berkshire, restoration, Occult writer, Alchemist, charles ii…ashmoleanmuseum
Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617-18 May 1692), the celebrated English antiquary, was a politician, officer of arms, student of astrology and alchemy, and...
Arthur Evans

Arthur Evans

male, deceased (1941)
Minoans, King Minos, monstrous child, Tiryns, greek myth, mycenae…ashmoleanmuseum
Sir Arthur John Evans was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Evans attended...

Jon Whiteley

male, 64 years old
The Little Kidnappers, British, Monymusk, Art historian, film actor, Monymusk, Scotland…ashmoleanmuseum
Jon Whiteley (born February 19, 1945 in Monymusk, Scotland) was a briefly successful child actor in films. Whiteley appeared in five films during...
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…ashmoleanmuseum
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...
Robert Plot

Robert Plot

male, deceased (1696)
Fellow of the Royal Society, University of Oxford, Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions, Megalosaurus, Subterranean…ashmoleanmuseum
Robert Plot (13 December 1640-April 30 1696) was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first...
Nicholas Penny

Nicholas Penny

male, 60 years old
Oxford University, London Review of Books, Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Slade Professor of Fine Art, The Burlington Magazine…ashmoleanmuseum
Nicholas Penny (born 1949) is a British art historian. Penny studied at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and at the Courtauld Institute of Art in...
Denis Mahon

Denis Mahon

male, 99 years old
Companion of Honour, Order of the Companions of Honour, Oxford University, Studies in Seicento Art and Theory, Courtauld Institute of Art, National Gallery…ashmoleanmuseum
Sir Denis Mahon is a collector and historian of Italian art born in London, England, on November 8, 1910. Considered to be one of the few art...
John Beazley

John Beazley

male, deceased (1970)
Christ's Hospital Old Blue, Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, Art historian, Scholar…ashmoleanmuseum
Sir John Davidson Beazley (Glasgow, Scotland, 1885 - Oxford, England, 1970) was an English Classical scholar. Beazley attended Balliol College,...
Leonard Woolley

Leonard Woolley

male, deceased (1960)
St John's School, Leatherhead, Carchemish, Hittites, Hittite, Assyriologist, Old Johnians…British Museum, ashmoleanmuseum
Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April, 1880-20 February, 1960) was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He is...
William Turner

William Turner

male, deceased (1862)
painter, metropolitan museum of art, tate gallery, artist, ashmoleanmuseum, watercolour…Oxfordshire County Museum
William Turner was an English painter who specialised watercolour landscape views, strongly rooted in Oxfordshire and the city of Oxford. He was a...