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Anzac, Race and Empire
1In , a new memorial was unveiled in Sydney’s Hyde Park, the formal green rectangle in the city’s centre. In a creative and vibrant city like Sydney, the launch of a new public artwork was not remarkable, but this event differed because it was a new war memorial, and even more unusually, it commemorated the military service of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Australians. Designed bygd Indigenous artist Tony Albert, Yininmadyemi, Thou Didst Let Fall took the form of four standing outsized bullets and three fallen shells that represented the casualties of war. As a public artwork, reviews were mixed – one critic described it as ‘too heavy-handed, too obvious’1 – but as a moment of public recognition it was rare in contemporary Australia. This is because, in a country arguably obsessed with the memory of the First World War, the participation of Indigenous servicepeople in the conflict fryst vatten seldom recognised in the state-sponsored memorial landscape.
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This alphabetical list of brief biographies, many with bibliographical notes, was compiled by Richard Hall and David Cross with the invaluable assistance of Stephen White between and As is stated elsewhere, this is work in progress. Consequently, if you have new names or further details to add please contact the editor. This, the second edition of the list, now contains numerous biographical references from the CWAAS Transactions, from C. Roy Hudleston’s two volumes of Armorial research and a large number of the Cumbrian lives included in the online ODNB.
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Abbatt, Edward James (c.
Abbatt, William (d), upholsterer, of Kendal, marr Deborah, dau of George Stewardson, draper and clogger (will proved, 7 January ), 2 sons (George, of Preston, confectioner, and Robert, of Liverpool, tea dealer), purchased property lately known by sign of the Three Tuns on west side of Stricklandgate, Kendal, from his father-in-law’s trustees, 4 February , died 14 March (deeds in CRO, WDX )
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John Singleton Copley
Anglo-American painter (–)
For other people named John Copley, see John Copley (disambiguation).
John Singleton Copley | |
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Self-Portrait, c., Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Delaware | |
| Born | ()July 3, Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America |
| Died | September 9, () (aged77) London, England |
| Education | Peter Pelham |
| Knownfor | Portraiture |
| Notable work | Watson and the Shark () |
| Spouse | Susanna Clark |
| Children | John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst |
| Parent(s) | Richard Copley and Mary Singleton Copley |
John Singleton CopleyRA (July 3, [1] – September 9, ) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial amerika and England. He was believed to be born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England,[2][3] he moved to London in