At eighteen Blundell became a farm hand in Kenya, later buying a farm at Solai in the Rift valley. His political career began in 1948 when he became elected Member of Parliament in the Kenyan ...

Publisher and Chairman of the Trustees at the British Museum from 1996 until 2002. Served on the Museum and Galleries Commission from 1991 until 1996. Nephew of Graham Greene, the eponymous novelist.

A soldier and diplomat, the Chevalier d’Eon was one of the most colourful and celebrated characters in eighteenth-century Britain. Although born in France, the Chevalier lived in London from 1762-1777 ...

Rich began his artistic career working for a firm of heraldic painters from 1870 until 1890, when he started studying at the Slade School of art. His first public exhibition was at his studio in ...

George Frederick Ormsby (1838-1901), Captain, 2nd Dragoon Guards; son of 4th Marquess of Londonderry and Giulia Grisi. Sitter in 3 portraits.

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This portrait of Burghley differs from most others in its fine modelling of his features. Burghley wears his robes of a Knight of the Garter, with the splendid collar, or 'Greater George', of the ...

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