The Doré Gallery at 35 New Bond Street was originally opened in 1874 to exhibit and publicise the work of the French artist Gustave Doré (1832-1883) (more here).
The gallery closed by about the start of the First World War.
The estate of the later B. Selby Lowndes purchased an engraving by Gustave Doré of Christ leaving the Praetorium in December 1878.
Thomas Frank Witts (1900 – 1976), son of Thomas Witts (1870-1921) and Annie Ruth Mitchell (1871-1947). He was born in December 1900 […]
On the Saturday 19th September 1908, 17 year old Emily Rourke from Leeds began an art album. The book was compiled while […]
William Edward Bone (1876-1964). On the 7th December 1895 William applied to the First Middlesex (Victoria and St. George’s) Rifle Volunteers (more […]
Cardenio Botti (1890-1973) was an Italian composer who was in Malta in 1923. He knew Salvatore Zammit-Hammet “very well” to whom Cardenio signed […]
