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Dame Laura Knight and Harold KnightDame Laura Knight (1877-1970) was the first female artist to be elected a full member of the Royal Academy, in 1936. Here she is pictured with her husband and fellow artist Harold Knight (1874-1961)
Fortunino Matania in his studioThe Italian artist, Fortunino Matania (1882-1963) pictured in his studio at 104 Priory Road, Hampstead, London surrounded by the props and backdrops he made himself and used in his paintings
The Design Department of Raphael Tuck & SonsThe designing room at Raphael Tuck & Sons, fine art publishers of prints, cards, Almanacks and postcards, staffed largely by women
Arthur Prince ventriloquistArthur Prince (1881 1946), music hall entertainer and ventriloquist, with his puppeteered dummy Sailor Jim, seated upon his knee. Date: 1905
Fred Russell ventriloquistFred Russell (1862 1957) Irish ventriloquist, with his puppeteered dummy Coster Joe, seated upon his knee. Date: 1905
Madame Marzella with white cockatoos 1905Music Hall star, Madame Marzella with her cockatoos. Date: 1905
Nanette Newman and Michael Culver filming in CornwallThe actress Nanette Newman on location near Lands End, Cornwall, with the actor Michael Culver, in the roles of the Newlyn School artists Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947)
Lillian Burns actress playing in Edwardian musical comedy The Catch of the Season, at Vanderille Theatre. Date: 1905
Maud Hobson ( d. 1913), English actress, known as the mother of musical comedy. She was married to Captain Haley, commander in chief and prime minister of Honolulu
Richard Caton Woodville at work on a paintingRichard Caton Woodville (1856-1927) painter of military scenes and artist for the Illustrated London News for the majority of his career. Renowned for depicting glorious deeds of the British empire
Cabaret des Quat z Arts - Montmartre, ParisCabaret des Quat z Arts (" cabaret of the four arts" ) was a venue at 62 Boulevard de Clichy, in Paris, France. The interdisciplinary mixture of the arts created avant-garde collaborative
The Artists Rifles in Camp, 1884.Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left Godfrey Merry 1884, by Godfrey Pitney Merry, (fl 1883-1915)
London Trade Card - William Hogarth, engraverLondon Trade Card - William Hogarth, artist and engraver, dated 23 April 1720. 1720
At the Play, Henry Irving at The Lyceum, LondonIllustration, At the Play. On the stage of the Lyceum Theatre, London, is Henry Irving, probably in the role of Hamlet. Audience members include the Prince and Princess of Wales, Benjamin Disraeli
Matania as consultant on the film, Susie in the BathThe Italian-born artist, Fortunino Matania, leading illustrator for The Sphere magazine, pictured giving professional hints to actor Gene Gerrard on the set of the new John Stafford film
Paris Exhibition of 1889 - Base of Eiffel Tower - Looking through base of tower to statue and buildings in distance. Part of Box 119 Boswell Collection Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to
Cartoon, Artist on a battlefield, WW1Cartoon, Artist on a battlefield, painting a colourful canvas, watched by two soldiers. Date: 1917
Fortunino Matania at Centenary DinnerThe famous magazine illustrator and artist, Fortunino Matania (1881-1963), special artist for The Sphere, and later illustrator of historical stories in Britannia and Eve
David Jagger painting golf portraitsDavid Jagger RA (1891-1958), prominent portrait painter pictured posing next to a portrait he had painted of a golfer for a forthcoming exhibition of golf paintings. Date: 1932
Aubrey Beardsley fancy dress at Artists Costume BallMiss Gladys Baly in costume as Aubrey Beardsleys Mademoiselle de Maupin at the Artists Costume Ball held at Covent Garden in February 1910. Date: 1910
Pamela Brown (1917 - 1975), English stage and film actress
Alan BadelAlan Fernand Badel (1923 - 1982), English stage actor who also appeared frequently in the cinema, radio and television
Claire BloomPatricia Claire Blume, English film and stage actress
Mathias Wieman with Ingrid BergmanMathias Wieman (1902 - 1969), German stage-performer, silent-and-sound motion picture actor with Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982), Swedish actress. Date: 1967
Rossano Brazzi (1916 - 1994), Italian actor
Jean-Paul Belmondo French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and one of the biggest French film stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
Constance WorthMiss Patience Worth, actress Date: circa 1905
Gertrude Lawrence (1898 - 1952), (Alexandre Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen) British actress in films and musicals
Veronica Lake (1922 - 1973), (Constance Ockleman) American film actress Date: 1919 -
Susan Shaw (Patsy Sloots) (1929 1978), English film actress
Maria Schell (1926 - 2005), Austrian actress in British and American films
Dennis Price / SignedDENNIS PRICE (Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price) English actor of stage, screen and TV Date: 1915 - 1973
Lina Pacary (1868-1953), operatic soprano in Reyers Salambo Date: early 20th century
Marcello MastroianniMARCELLO MASTROIANNI Italian film actor Date: 1923 -
Anna Magnan (1909 - 1973), Italian film actress, born in Egypt
Shirley Maclaine (Shirley Maclaine Beaty) American film actress Date: 1934 -
Brigitte Helm (Gisele Eve Schittenhelm) (1906 - 1996), German film actress of the 1920s
John Gilbert & Greta Garbo embracingGreta Garbo (1905 - 1990), Swedish-American film actress in a clinch with John Gilbert (1899 1936) Date: 1905 - 1990
Greer Garson (1904 - 1996) Anglo-Irish actress in British and American films
Ronald ColmanRONALD COLMAN in 1930 English actor of stage and screen Date: 1891 - 1958
Montgomery Clift (1920 - 1966), American film actor of stage and screen
Jack Carson (1910 - 1963), Canadian-born American-based film actor
Shirley Temple at her homeShirley Temple (1928 - 2014) Home of the American child star of the 1930s
Cecile Sorel (1873 - 1966), French actress Date: early 1900s
Julia Neilson (1868 1957), English actress, wife of Fred Terry Date: 1905
Pola Negri (Appolonia Chalupek) (1897 - 1987), Polish-born actress who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and was successful in silent films
Jean HarlowJEAN HARLOW American film actress Date: 1931
James Dean / Ufa PostcardJAMES DEAN American film actor Date: 1931 - 1955