3 January 1946, Belfast – 16 January 2008, Georgetown Neighborhood, Washington, DC Conisbee was a celebrated art historian and museum curator who began his career as a professor in the UK before he was hired by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to be an associate curator of French painting. From there, he moved to Los […]
24 December 1777 – 16 November 1850 Menagerist This headstone is very sweet and might make you think kindly of the person it immortalizes, but George Wombwell was no champion of animal welfare. Wombwell was a shoemaker from Essex who stumbled into exotic-animal-collecting when he bought two boa constrictors on the London docks and started […]
Clara Diana Shaw Kennedy 1855 – January 1902 James Frederick Shaw Kennedy 1849 – 24 November 1901 This is the coffin of the Clara Diana, kept in a building that backed up to the wall between the cemetery and the church beyond in West Highgate Cemetery. There were stacks of old coffins in this dark […]
25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862 Oh, how much I love Lizzie. I have been a massive fan of hers since I was but a wee college student first discovering the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) back in the last century. I even wrote my senior thesis on Lizzie and her sister-in-law Christina Rossetti. She is […]