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Henry Matthews, Viscount Llandaff (1826-1913): “The Home Secretary”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Mrs. Fontana reading Bernard Shaw
Carel Weight (1908 - 1997)
High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: the Trial of Sir Roger Casement 1916
Sir John Lavery (1856 - 1941)
The Crowd on the Pavement, Coronation
Feliks Topolski (1907 - 1989)
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(Richard Edward) Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon (b1926) politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer – “Don’t miss the escape of the century…”
Stanley Franklin (1930 - 2004)
A Literary Party at Sir Joshua Reynolds’s
James E Doyle
William, III Walker (1791 - 1867)
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Raft
John Hewitt (1955 - )
Li Hongzang (1823-1901) Chinese politician, general and diplomat
Sir William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
Benjamin West (1738-1820) artist
George Henry Harlow (1787 - 1819)
James Fittler (1758 - 1835)
The Beaconsfield Cabinet 1874
Charles Mercier (1834 - 1901)
Henry Lemon (1822 - 1902)
Meeting of the Council of the Anti-Corn Law League
Samuel Bellin (1799 - 1894)
John Rogers Herbert (1810 - 1890)
The House of Commons, 1882
Frederick Sargent (1837 - 1899)
Wedding Jange II
The Singh Twins
Benjamin West (1738-1820) artist
George Henry Harlow (1787 - 1819)
James Fittler (1758 - 1835)
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Representation of the People Project 2018-28
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