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The inventor and entrepreneur, Richard Arkwright is one of the leading figures of the Industrial Revolution. In 1769 he patented a water-powered spinning machine that could spin a vast number of ...

pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, October 1819 (exhibited 1819) ...

McEleny won more medals than any other British swimmer at Atlanta in 1996. Paraplegic, she has struggled against ill-health to achieve her sporting success and was the flag bearer for the opening ...

Percy Horton attended the Brighton School of Art from 1912-1916. During the First Word War he became a conscientious objector and was sentenced to two years hard labour in Calton Jail, Edinburgh, from ...

Alexandra Imogen Clair Gage (née Grenfell), Viscountess Gage (1905-1969), Daughter of 1st Baron Desborough; wife of 6th Viscount Gage. 2 Portraits George John St Clere Gage, 7th Viscount Gage ...

Johnstone qualified and practised as a solicitor in Edinburgh but he decided to abandon law for art. He studied art at evening classes before visiting Italy between 1842 and 1844. Johnstone was ...

Married fellow painter John Bratby in 1953. An assured figurative painter, Cooke had her first solo show at the Leicester Galleries in 1964 and exhibited her work regularly from then on.