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The Red Lodge, Bristol
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The Red Lodge, Park Row, Bristol. The Red Lodge, now a museum, is the last remaining building of the Young family estate. The Great House, also part of the estate, stood where the Colston Hall stands today. The Red Lodge was built in around 1590. In 1854 the house became the country’s first girls’ reform school, set up by the social pioneer Mary Carpenter.
Creator: BCC Museum
Date: 1590
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Detail from painting
Description:
Detail of Mary Robinson, 1758-1800, from a 1930 painting entitled Some Who Made Bristol Famous by Ernest Board. Robinson was an actress.
Creator: Ernest Board
Date: 1930
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K917
Detail from painting
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Detail of John Latimer, 1824-1904, from a 1930 painting entitled Some Who Made Bristol Famous by Ernest Board. Latimer was a historian, and wrote the Annals of Bristol.
Creator: Ernest Board
Date: 1930
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K917
Detail from painting
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Detail of John Addington Symonds, 1840-1893, from a 1930 painting entitled Some Who Made Bristol Famous by Ernest Board. Symonds was an author and translator.
Creator: Ernest Board
Date: 1930
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K917
Detail from painting
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Detail of Sir Humphry Davy, 1778-1829, from a 1930 painting entitled Some Who Made Bristol Famous by Ernest Board. Davy was a chemist, and invented the miners’ safety lamp.
Creator: Ernest Board
Date: 1930
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K917
Detail from painting
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Detail of Hannah More,1745-1833, from a 1930 painting entitled Some Who Made Bristol Famous by Ernest Board. More was an Evangelical Christian who wrote about the subjects of morality and religion, and was known for her charity. She was an Abolitionist and wrote poems against the slave trade.
Creator: Ernest Board
Date: 1930
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K917
Detail from painting
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Detail of Sir Thomas Lawrence,1769-1830, from a 1930 painting entitled Some Who Made Bristol Famous by Ernest Board. Lawrence was a portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy (school of art in London).
Creator: Ernest Board
Date: 1930
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K917
Detail from painting
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Detail of Edward Hodges Baily, 1788-1867, from a 1930 painting entitled Some Who Made Bristol Famous by Ernest Board. Baily was a sculptor and is famous for ‘Nelson’ in Trafalgar Square, London.
Creator: Ernest Board
Date: 1930
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K917
Detail from painting
Description:
Detail of William James Muller,1812-1845, from a 1930 painting entitled Some Who Made Bristol Famous by Ernest Board. He was a painter, particularly of landscapes.
Creator: Ernest Board
Date: 1930
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K917
Detail from painting
Description:
Detail of William Canynges, c1399-1474, from a 1930 painting entitled Some Who Made Bristol Famous by Ernest Board. Canynges was a merchant and benefactor of St Mary Redcliffe Church in Bristol.
Creator: Ernest Board
Date: 1930
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K917
