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BIOGRAPHIES OF BRITISH ARTISTS

Edited by Mark Quinlan

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EARDLEY, JOAN

Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was born at Warnham, Sussex on 18 May 1921. Her parents were Anglo-Scottish dairy farmers. Her father served in the Great War as a captain in the army and was badly wounded in a gas attack. He committed suicide in 1929. Joan moved with her mother to Blackheath in London, where [...]

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EARL, MAUD

 
Maud Alice Earl was born in London’s West End in 1864. She was the only daughter of the successful sporting artist George Earl and his first wife, Alice Beaumont Rawlins. The Earls came from a long line of Worcestershire and Gloucestershire sporting families and produced a number of sporting painters, including her uncle, Thomas Earl, [...]

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EAST, SIR ALFRED

Alfred East was born in Lower Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire on 15 December 1849. He was the youngest of a family of eleven children, part of the East shoemaking dynasty. He taught drawing to his schoolmates while still in pinafores. At about the age of ten, he earned his first commission of five shillings for drawing [...]

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EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES LOCK

 
Charles Lock Eastlake was born in Plymouth, Devon on 17 November 1793. He was the youngest of four sons. His father, George Eastlake was Solicitor to the Admiralty and Judge-Advocate of the Admiralty Court. His mother was Mary Pierce. Charles was educated at Plympton Grammar School (like Joshua Reynolds before him) and briefly, at Charterhouse, [...]

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ECKERSLEY, TOM

Thomas Eckersley was born on 30 September 1914 in Lancashire. His artistic training commenced in 1930, when he enrolled at Salford Art School, where his abilities were he was awarded the Heywood Medal for Best Student. In 1934 Eckersley moved to London, intending to become a freelance poster designer. He was accompanied by Eric Lombers [...]

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EGG, AUGUSTUS

Augustus Leopold Egg was born in London on 2 May 1816. He was the son of a wealthy gunsmith. He attended the Henry Sass Drawing School and entered the RA in 1836. He was a member of ‘The Clique’, a group of artists comprising Richard Dadd, Henry Nelson O’Neil, William Powell Frith and others in [...]

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ELKAN, BENNO

Benno Elkan was born on 2 December 1877 at Dortmund, Westphalia in Germany. He was the only child of Salomon and Rosalie Elkan, who were Jews engaged in the textile trade. He was educated at Dortmund Gymnasium and at Château du Rosey, Rolle, near Lausanne in Switzerland. He worked initially in a clothing store in [...]

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ELLIS, CLIFFORD

Clifford Wilson Ellis was born in 1907 at Bognor in Sussex. He was educated at St Martin’s School of Art, the Regent Street Polytechnic and London University. Ellis became a graphic artist and illustrator, producing much of his output in collaboration with his wife, Rosemary Ellis. Together, they designed posters for Shell, The Empire Marketing [...]

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ELSLEY, ARTHUR

Arthur John Elsley was born on 20 November 1860 in London. His parents were John Elsley, a coachman and Emily Freer, resident at Curzon Street, Soho. His father was a talented amateur artist. The earliest surviving drawing by Arthur dates from when he was eleven years old. It was a pencil sketch of a cairn [...]

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ENGELHEART, GEORGE

George Engelheart was born at Kew in Surrey in October 1752. He was the son of a plaster modeller who had emigrated from Germany as a child. Engleheart enrolled as a student at the new Royal Academy Schools in 1769, where he gave his age as 16, although he was about 19. He also had [...]

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ENGLISH, MICHAEL

Michael Jeremy English was born at Bicester, Oxfordshire, on 5 September 1941 and was educated at boarding school, before going on to the Ealing School of Art in London, where he studied under some of the leading British avant garde artists of the day and attended the Ground Course, a revolutionary art-teaching programme devised by [...]

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EPSTEIN, SIR JACOB

Jacob Epstein was born of Russian-Polish parentage at Hester Street on New York’s Lower East Side on 10 November 1880. As a teenager, he sketched the city and joined The Art Students’ League of New York in 1900. In 1901-02 he worked in a bronze foundry by day, studying drawing and sculptural modelling at night. [...]

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ETCHELLS, FREDERICK

Frederick Etchells was born on 14 September 1886 at Newcastle upon Tyne. He studied at the RCA in the years 1908-11 and in Paris 1911-14, where he became interested in the Fauve and Cubist movements. In Paris, he met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Amedeo Modigliani. Roger Fry invited Etchells to submit a design for [...]

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ETTY, WILLIAM

William Etty was born on at York on 10 March 1787. He was the seventh child of a baker and miller. In accordance with the wishes of his father, he served seven years of apprenticeship to a Hull printer. He was, however, enabled to pursue his studies in painting through the financial support of his [...]

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EURICH, RICHARD

Richard Ernst Eurich was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire on 14 March 1903. He was the second of the five children of German-born Dr F W Eurich, a professor of forensic medicine and bacteriologist, who was by all accounts, a hero to the wool workers, for curing the disease they got from wool particles in [...]