Born in Mingora, Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai is a human rights activist for female education. She came to prominence in 2009 after writing about her life during the Taliban occupation of her town Swat ...

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin's achievements as a statesman, diplomat and writer influenced the outcome of the American War of Independence (1775-83). He is recognised as Foundling ...

Elizabeth I's last favourite. Described as having 'a nature not to be ruled', Essex organised royal entertainment in his capacity as Master of the Horse. Confirmed as a popular hero when he took Cadiz ...

Explore over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated from the 16th century to the present day in a wide variety of different mediums. A Collection of 11,000 portraits, of which about 4,000 are ...

Daily Herald, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 202 portraits. James Jarché (1891-1965), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 65 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait. Stalin and ...

Ramsay completed his training in Rome and Naples. On his return to London in 1738 his only serious competitor was Thomas Hudson, with whom he shared a drapery painter, Joseph van Aken. In 1761 it was ...

Daily Herald, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 202 portraits. James Jarché (1891-1965), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 65 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait. Stalin and ...

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Join Ekow Eshun, curator of The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, in conversation with Dorothy Price, curator of the Royal Academy’s Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and ...

Caroline Sylvia Borg (née Hill) (1938-), Wife of Alan Charles Nelson Borg; daughter of Lord Arthur Francis Henry Hill. Sitter in 5 portraits. Ishabel Wilhelmina Sheila (née MacDougall), Lady Francis ...

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Alice Hughes (1857-1939), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 54 portraits. Tony White, Printer. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait. George Nathaniel Curzon, Lord Curzon, is ...