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Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)
“To my People” [written by King George V from Marlborough House, 22 May 1910, following the death of his father, King Edward VII]
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 - 1912)
Le Billet Doux
Nicolas Lavreince (1737 - 1807)
Nicolas Delaunay (1739 - 1792)
The Post Office
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Richard Grenville (later Grenville-Temple), 2nd Earl Temple (1711-1779) politician
William Dickinson (1746 - 1823)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
Osborne in 1865
John Alfred Vinter (c1828 - 1905)
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802 - 1873)
Letter written by Lord Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, from Newstead Abbey
George Gordon Byron (1788 - 1824)
Le Bain
Sigmund Freudenberger (1745 - 1801)
Antoine Louis Romanet (1742/3 - 1810)
Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806)
Folded Letter
Eileen Lawrence (1946 - )
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