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A statue of John Hunter, Scottish National Portrait Gallery A plaster cast medallion of John Hunter, Science Museum, London. John Hunter FRS (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific methods in ...
Hunter lived at 28 Leicester Square from 1783 to 1793. [23] Albert Grant, the owner of Leicester Square in 1874, originally commissioned Woolner to sculpt a bust of Samuel Johnson, who frequented Reynolds’s house on the square . Grant was, however, persuaded by the Royal College of Surgeons to honour Hunter instead. The bust originally stood ...
English: Bust of John Hunter in Leicester Square, London. Date: 19 January 2008, 15:35: Source: Bust of John Hunter, Leicester Square: Author: R/DV/RS from Belgium/UK:
Leicester Square (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər / ⓘ LEST-ər) is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England, and is the centre of London's entertainment district.It was laid out in 1670 as Leicester Fields, which was named after the recently built Leicester House, itself named after Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester.
Leicester House in an engraving of 1748. Leicester House was a large aristocratic townhouse in Westminster, London, to the north of where Leicester Square now is. Built by the Earl of Leicester and completed in 1635, it was later occupied by Elizabeth Stuart, a British princess and former Queen of Bohemia, and in the 1700s by the two successive Hanoverian princes of Wales.
The statue of William Shakespeare on Leicester Square. This is a list of public art in Soho, a district in the City of Westminster, London.Soho is an area first developed in the 1670s which, since the construction of theatres along Shaftesbury Avenue in the 19th century, has had a strong association with the entertainment industry.
The first public location of the collection was the Holophusikon, also known as the Leverian Museum, at Leicester House, on Leicester Square, from 1775 to 1786. After it passed from Lever's ownership, it was displayed for nearly twenty years more at the purpose-built Blackfriars Rotunda just across the Thames, sometimes called Parkinson's ...
Leicester House, the original name of Essex House (London), London, built c. 1575 and demolished in the 1670s Leicester House, Westminster , the house that Leicester Square is named after, built in the 1630s and demolished c. 1791