East Anglian Artist Directory

Welcome to Reeman Dansie Auctioneers East Anglian Artist Directory where you will find detailed information on many artists who live/lived in our local area of East Anglia. You will also find examples of their talent, along with work of theirs we have sold in our auction room.

 

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John Aldridge (1905 - 1983)

John Aldridge (1905 - 1983)

John Aldridge was born in Woolwich into a wealthy military family. He studied at Corpus Christi, Oxford before settling in London where he taught himself to paint. Exhibiting at the Leicester Galleries from 1931, in 1933 he relocated to the Essex village of Great Barnfield where he became a central figure in the artistic community which grew up around the village...
Edward Ardizonne (1900 - 1963)

Edward Ardizonne (1900 - 1963)

Edward Ardizonne was born in Indo-China but was brought up in Ipswich. He had some formal training during evening classes at Westminster School of Art but initially worked as an office clerk until 1926 when he focussed his efforts on becoming a professional commercial artist...
Anthony Atkinson (1929 - 2014)

Anthony Atkinson (1929 - 2014)

Anthony Atkinson was born in Croydon and trained at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Upon graduation, some of his first work was poster designs for London Transport, he also produced designs for the GPO, Essex County Council and Shell...

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Roderick Barrett (1920 - 2000)

Roderick Barrett (1920 - 2000)

Roderick Barrett was born in Colchester to a working class family, his older brother Oliver O’Connor Barrett (1908-1989) became a well known sculptor. He trained at the Central School of Art and Design from 1936-1940, during WWII he was a conscientious objector...
Charles Bartlett (1921 - 2014)

Charles Bartlett (1921 - 2014)

Charles Bartlett was born in Grimsby and attended the Eastbourne School of Art, he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Royal College of Art but WWII intervened and he joined the Guards Armoured Division...
Edward Bawden (1903 - 1989)

Edward Bawden (1903 - 1989)

Edward Bawden was born in Braintree and as a child showed a talent for art, whilst still at school he was permitted day release to Cambridge School of Art. He later attended full time and completed his education at the Royal College of Art, where he met fellow student Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) and his future wife Charlotte Epton...
Richard Bawden (b. 1936)

Richard Bawden (b. 1936)

Richard Bawden was born in Braintree, the son of eminent artist Edward Bawden (1903-1989). He trained at Chelsea School of Art, at St. Martin’s School of Art, and the Royal College of Art, before embarking on a career which has embraced a broad range of art and design including...
Harry Becker (1865 - 1928)

Harry Becker (1865 - 1928)

Harry Becker was born in Colchester, the son of German parents who had settled in the town a decade earlier. His formal artistic training began in The Royal Academy Schools, Antwerp when aged just 14...
Henry Bright (1810 - 1873)

Henry Bright (1810 - 1873)

Henry Bright was born in Saxmundham into a family of clockmakers. He was apprenticed as a chemist in Woodbridge and then Norwich and became a dispenser at the Norwich and Norfolk Hospital...
Reginald Brill (1902 - 1974)

Reginald Brill (1902 - 1974)

Reginald was brought up in London and Yorkshire. At the outbreak of WW1 he was a 13 year old office boy, working in London and attending evening classes at St. Martins College of Art. He secured a scholarship to the Slade and in 1927 won the Prix de Rome...
Lionel Bulmer (1919 - 1992)

Lionel Bulmer (1919 - 1992)

Lionel Bulmer was born in Wandsworth and completed two years at Clapham School of Art before being conscripted into the army. After WWII he became a student at the Royal College, It was there that he met Margaret Green (1925-2003) who became his life partner...
Robert Burrows (1810 - 1883)

Robert Burrows (1810 - 1883)

Robert Burrows was born in Ipswich into a family of silversmiths and he was apprenticed into the family business. He was a founder member of the Ipswich Society of Professional & Amateur Artists in 1832, but it appears that painting was a sideline to running the family business...

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Richard Chopping (1917 - 2008)

Richard Chopping (1917 - 2008)

Richard ‘Dicky’ Chopping was born in Colchester and became famous for his collaboration with Ian Fleming, designing nine of the book covers for the James Bond series and developing a style which is synonymous with the franchise...
Thomas Churchyard (1798 - 1865)

Thomas Churchyard (1798 - 1865)

Thomas Churchyard was born in Melton and worked as a solicitor in Woodbridge, but his real passion was for art which he pursued with a zeal, he occupies a unique position as East Anglia’s most renowned ‘amateur’ artist. He was schooled in Dedham and then trained with a Halesworth firm of Solicitors...
Jonathan Clarke (b. 1961)

Jonathan Clarke (b. 1961)

Jonathan Clarke was born in Bury St Edmunds, son of the renowned sculptor and printmaker Geoffrey Clarke (1924-2014). Jonathan was apprenticed to his father at the age of 16, working initially as an assistant but in time he started creating his own works and was exhibiting by the early 1980s...
Prunella Clough (1919 - 1999)

Prunella Clough (1919 - 1999)

Prunella Clough was born Cara Prunella Clough and grew up in Knightsbridge. She attended the Chelsea School of Art where her tutors included Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore. During the war she worked as a cartographer in the Office of War Information...
Peter Coker (1926 - 2004)

Peter Coker (1926 - 2004)

Peter Coker grew up in Leytonstone and showed an early talent for art. He trained at St Martin’s School of Art between 1941-1948, his studies interrupted by three years in the Royal Air Force. He then spent two years travelling and painting in Italy and France before attending the Royal College of Art from 1951-54 during which time he was awarded both the Royal and British Institution scholarships...
Henry Collins (1910 - 1994)

Henry Collins (1910 - 1994)

Henry Collins was born in Colchester in 1910 and during a long career as artist and educator he was integral to Colchester’s development as an artistic hub. He trained at the Colchester School of Art and the Central School, London. During the Second World War he served with the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers...
Jack Cox (1914 - 2007)

Jack Cox (1914 - 2007)

Jack Cox was born in Wells, Norfolk and was a self-trained artist, combining a prolific painting output with his 50 year career as a fisherman. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II and during trips to Ireland he started painting cottage scenes which he sold for ‘beer money’...

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Henry Davy (1793 - 1865)

Henry Davy (1793 - 1865)

Henry Davy was born near Halesworth in Suffolk and secured a position apprenticed to John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) in Yarmouth. He assisted Cotman with his 1818/19 series of etchings for his publications on Norfolk Sepulchral Brasses and Norfolk Architecture...
John Duvall (1815 - 1892)

John Duvall (1815 - 1892)

John Duvall was originally from Margate but moved to Ipswich in 1852, just as his career was burgeoning. He established a studio and drawing school in Ipswich’s Buttermarket and initially focussed on portrait painting before becoming more renowned as a animal painter...

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Paul Earee (1888 - 1968)

Paul Earee (1888 - 1968)

Paul Earee was born Frederick Percy Eary in Sudbury, Suffolk. By 1911 he was working as an architect’s assistant, the start of a successful career particularly in ecclesiastical and domestic architecture both around Sudbury and further afield. His chosen career complimented a lifelong love of art...
John Ernest Foster (1877 - 1968)

John Ernest Foster (1877 - 1968)

John Ernest Foster was born in Hull, the son of a florist, he initially worked in the family business and ultimately flowers became the principle theme of his work. He studied at the Royal College of Art and early in his career settled in Dedham on the Suffolk/Essex border...

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Mary Fedden (1915 - 2012)

Mary Fedden (1915 - 2012)

Mary Fedden was born in Bristol and studied at the Slade School of Art where she was particularly influenced by the theatre designer Vladimir Polunin. Her career started with theatre design for Sadler’s Wells Theatre before settling on portraiture. During WWII she worked in the Land Army, painted propaganda murals and in 1944 was called up and served as a driver...
Rowland Fisher (1885 - 1969)

Rowland Fisher (1885 - 1969)

Rowland Fisher was born and lived his entire life in Gorleston, Norfolk where he painted the fishing community of the town. He was born the son of a Master Mariner and yearned to go to sea, but was instead apprenticed to a timber yard. Throughout his fifty year career at the timber yard, he drew and painted in his spare time and became an expert ship modeller...

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Maggi Hambling (b. 1945)

Maggi Hambling (b. 1945)

Maggi Hambling was born in Suffolk, when aged just 15 she became the youngest student at The East Anglian School of Ponting and Drawing at Benton End, there she was taught by Lett Haines and Cedric Morris. She then studied at Ipswich Art School, The Camberwell School of Art and Slade School of Art...
Eloise Harriet Stannard (1829 - 1915)

Eloise Harriet Stannard (1829 - 1915)

Eloise Harriet Stannard was born in Norwich, one of fourteen children and part of a significant dynasty of artists and leading figures in the Norwich School of painters. Her father was Alfred Stannard, her uncle and aunt Joseph and Emily Coppin Stannard. Eloise was a sickly child and suffered ill health throughout her life, but it only served to focus her energies into painting...
Lucy Harwood (1893 - 1972)

Lucy Harwood (1893 - 1972)

Lucy Harwood was born into a wealthy family in Ipswich on New Year’s Day 1893. She demonstrated early musical talent but a potential career as a concert pianist was curtailed when a botched medical procedure left her paralysed on her right side. Lucy subsequently refocused her efforts into painting and in 1914 briefly attended the Slade Art School before returning to the family home in East Bergholt...
Josef Herman (1911 - 2000)

Josef Herman (1911 - 2000)

Josef Herman was born in Warsaw and trained at the Warsaw School of Art. His early artwork recorded scenes of peasants and the ghettos of Warsaw, the underclasses and the manual labour which sustained them were constant themes through his career. He briefly worked in Poland as a typesetter and graphic artist before emigrating to Brussels in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution...

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Tom Keating (1917 - 1884)

Tom Keating (1917 - 1884)

Tom Keating was born into a working class London family and initially worked as a house painter before serving as a boiler-stoker in World War II. After the war he took advantage of the scheme to offer servicemen college places and commenced a painting course at Goldsmiths College, but failed to secure a qualification after two years...
John Knapp Fisher (1931 - 2015)

John Knapp Fisher (1931 - 2015)

John Knapp-Fisher was born in Kensington, his father, Arthur Bedford Knapp-Fisher taught architecture at the Royal College of Art. John studied graphic design at Maidstone College of Art and took up painting seriously whilst working in theatre design...

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Arthur Lett-Haines (1894 - 1978)

Arthur Lett-Haines (1894 - 1978)

Arthur Lett-Haines was born in Paddington. After service in the army in WWI he became associated with a Chelsea based group of artists and writers including the Sitwells and D.H. Lawrence. In 1918 Lett-Haines met Cedric Morris who, shortly after moved in with Lett and his then newly wed wife Gertrude Lincoln...

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Clive Madgwick (1939 - 2005)

Clive Madgwick (1939 - 2005)

Clive Madgwick was born in London and pursued a long career as a dentist before changing paths to become a professional artist. He painted, entirely self taught, as an amateur for many years and exhibited and sold his work to patients in his surgery. In 1972 he turned professional, working in the Sudbury area and selling his paintings through Suffolk galleries and further afield...
John Moore (1820 - 1902)

John Moore (1820 - 1902)

Traditionally identified as John Moore of Ipswich, he was actually born and spent the first half of his life in Woodbridge. The son of a former sailor turned plummer, painter and decorator, John followed his father into the trade and apprenticed as a plummer and signwriter...
Glyn Morgan (1926 - 2015)

Glyn Morgan (1926 - 2015)

Glyn Morgan was born in Pontypridd and educated at Cardiff School of Art under Cheri Richards and then Camberwell School of Art. Whilst in Wales he met Cedric Morris who admired Glyn’s talent and encouraged him to attend The East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing which Cedric ran together with his partner Lett Haines...
Cavendish Morton (1911 - 2015)

Cavendish Morton (1911 - 2015)

Cavendish Morton was born in Scotland and grew up on the Isle of Wight where he was home-schooled by his artistic parents, together with his twin brother Concord with whom he sometimes collaborated on paintings. He had some initial success painting commercially for marine and aviation firms based on the Island...
Colin Moss (1914 - 2005)

Colin Moss (1914 - 2005)

Colin Moss was born in Ipswich, but raised by relatives near Plymouth after his father was killed at Passchendaele in 1917. Colin studied at Plymouth School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art before working in the Camouflage unit during WWII. In 1941 he was drafted into the Life Guards...
Alfred Munnings (1878 - 1959)

Alfred Munnings (1878 - 1959)

Alfred Munnings was born at Mendham Mill on the Norfolk/Suffolk border and demonstrated a precocious drawing ability from an early age. At 14 he was apprenticed to Page Brothers, printers in Norwich, and spent the next six years producing lithographs for advertising, designing for Caley’s and Colman’s Mustard amongst others...

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John Nash (1893 - 1977)

John Nash (1893 - 1977)

John Nash was born in London and spent his early life in Buckinghamshire. From the 1920s, he became a frequent visitor to Suffolk and Essex together with his wife Christine, they had a holiday cottage in the Stour Valley before putting down roots in Wormingford, near Colchester just after the Second World War...
Adam Neate (b.1977)

Adam Neate (b.1977)

Adam Neate was born in Colchester in 1977 and studied graphic art at Suffolk College before joining a London advertising agency. From an early age he immersed himself in hip-hop culture, graffiti art and tagging, developed his unique spray-paint style...
Mary Newcomb (1922 - 2008)

Mary Newcomb (1922 - 2008)

Mary Newcomb was born in Harrow- on-the -hill and was a late starter where art was concerned. Her principle interest was nature and she studied natural science at Reading University and went on to teach science at Bath High School. Whilst there she took evening classes in pottery and volunteered at the Flatford Mill field centre where she met the ornithological artist Eric Ennion, and through him, her husband Geoffrey Newcomb...

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John O'Connor (1913 - 2004)

John O'Connor (1913 - 2004)

John Scorror O’Connor was born in Leicestershire and studied at Leicester College of Art and the Royal College of Art where his tutors included John Nash and Eric Ravilious. His principle discipline was initially wood engraving and he illustrated Joan Rutter’s anthology of flower poems in 1937, the first of many books which he illustrated and sometimes also wrote...
Oliver O'Connor Barrett (1908 - 1987)

Oliver O'Connor Barrett (1908 - 1987)

Oliver O’Connor Barrett (known as Connor Barrett) was born in Eltham but his family moved to Colchester in his youth, his younger brother Roderic Barrett (1920-2000) also became a well known artist. Connor studied at Fircroft College but was largely sell-taught in sculpting...

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Joyce Pallot (1912 - 1989)

Joyce Pallot (1912 - 1989)

Joyce Pallot was born in Brightlingsea and studied graphic design at Southend and then Colchester School of Art, where she met Henry Collins in 1932. After training Joyce taught part-time at various institutions including Colchester Art School...
Grayson Perry (b. 1960)

Grayson Perry (b. 1960)

Grayson Perry was born in Chelmsford and studied art at Portsmouth College of Art and Design. He held break-through exhibitions in 2002, preempting the 2003 Turner prize win which brought him to the attention of the general public...
Roy Petley (b. 1950)

Roy Petley (b. 1950)

Roy Petley grew up in a children’s home in Sussex. At sixteen he secured a scholarship to study art at Brighton University, but dropped out shortly after to tour Italy, where he studied the Old Masters. At the start of his career he sold his work through Liberty’s and Heal’s and exhibited and sold his work off the railings of Green Park...
Audrey Pilkington (1922 - 2015)

Audrey Pilkington (1922 - 2015)

Born at Heaning, Lancashire in 1922, Audrey attended Lancaster School of Art and afterwards at the Slade School of Art. During the war years, at The Slade (at this time relocated to Oxford), Audrey made friends with fellow student Bernard Dunstan and through him met her future husband, Patrick Heriz-Smith who was Bernard’s flatmate and a fellow artist...
John Piper (1903 - 1992)

John Piper (1903 - 1992)

John Piper was born in Epsom, Surrey. As a child he explored the local countryside by bike and compiled and illustrated his own guidebooks. After rejecting a partnership in the family law firm he trained at Richmond College of Art and the Royal College of Art, which he dropped out of after a year...
Francis Plummer (1930 - 2019)

Francis Plummer (1930 - 2019)

Francis Plummer was born in London in 1930, He studied art and design at the Woolwich Polytechnic School before formal training at the Royal Academy Schools from 1949-54 where he achieved a RA Diploma and was awarded the coveted Leverhulme scholarship for £100...
Mary Potter (1900 - 1981)

Mary Potter (1900 - 1981)

Mary Potter was born Marian Attenborough and grew up in Kent before attending The Slade School of Art where she was awarded first prize for portrait painting. She married Stephen Potter and initially they lived in Chiswick, where Mary was exhibiting with The London Group...

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Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)

Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)

Eric Ravilious was born in East Sussex, over a relatively short but prolific career, he had a profound impact on popular design during the inter-war years...
Bernard Reynolds (1915 - 1997)

Bernard Reynolds (1915 - 1997)

Bernard Reynolds was born in Norwich and trained at the Norwich School of Art and the Westminster School of Art, whilst still a student, he met and exhibited with Henry Moore. During WWII he worked as a naval engineer, later utilising his working knowledge of engineering in his sculpture...

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Robert Sadler (1909 - 2001)

Robert Sadler (1909 - 2001)

Robert Sadler was born in Newmarket, the son of a racehorse trainer. He pursued a career in the RAF and was able to combine this with his passion for art. He studied in Cambridge and became a pilot in 1930...
Stuart Scott-Somerville (1908 - 1993)

Stuart Scott-Somerville (1908 - 1993)

Stuart Scott Somerville was born at Doncaster into an artistic family, his father Charles Somerville was an artist and collector, his younger sister Peggy (1918-1975) became famous at a young age for her prodigious artistic talent...
Edward Seago (1910 - 1974)

Edward Seago (1910 - 1974)

Edward Seago was born in Norwich and was largely self-trained, though with some mentoring from Alfred Munnings (1878-1959) and Bertram Priestman (1868-1951). A sickly youth, he spent much time confined to a bed with only pencil and paper for entertainment...
Colin Self (b. 1941)

Colin Self (b. 1941)

Colin Self was born in Norfolk and trained at Norwich School of Art and The Slade School of Fine Art. Whilst at the Slade he was encouraged by Peter Blake and David Hockney to pursue his experimentation with Pop Art...
Ron Sims (1944 - 2014)

Ron Sims (1944 - 2014)

Ron Simms was born in Burnham on Crouch and trained at Colchester School of Art before post-graduate studies at Manchester School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. His style was indelibly influenced by his tutors, Eduardo Paolozzi, William Scott and Peter Blake...
Edward Smythe (1810 - 1899)

Edward Smythe (1810 - 1899)

Edward Smythe was born in Ipswich and became a key figure in the loose group of artists subsequently named ‘The Suffolk School’. In 1832 he was elected a member of The Ipswich Society of Professional and Amateur Artists, it has been suggested that he probably had some tutorage there from Henry Davy (1793-1865)...
Thomas Smythe (1825 - 1906)

Thomas Smythe (1825 - 1906)

Thomas Smythe was born in Ipswich in 1825 and followed his elder brother, Edward into the painting profession. There can be little doubt that Thomas learnt his trade from his brother, 15 years his senior, and by the time Edward left Ipswich for the West of the County around 1850...
Peggy Somerville (1918 - 1975)

Peggy Somerville (1918 - 1975)

Margaret Scott (known as Peggy) Somerville was the daughter of artist Charles Somerville and younger sister of artist Stuart Scott-Somerville (1908-1993), she was a child prodigy. Born in Ashford, Middlesex, she exhibited her first painting aged 3, and had her first solo exhibition at Claridge Gallery in London aged nine...
George Soper (1870 - 1942)

George Soper (1870 - 1942)

George Soper was born in Hackney and initially received little formal training but became well established as an artist and illustrator specialising in depictions of England’s farming heritage in a pre-mechanised era. He became apprenticed to a printer and stationer and worked alongside the illustrator Charles Robinson...
Leonard Squirrell (1893 - 1979)

Leonard Squirrell (1893 - 1979)

Leonard Russell Squirrell was born in Ipswich and didn’t stray far from the town in a highly productive and lengthy career. An early prodigious talent for drawing was spotted by head of Ipswich School of Art, George Ruston. Squirrell trained at the Ipswich Art School and later at the Slade School of Art...
James Stark (1794 - 1859)

James Stark (1794 - 1859)

James Stark was born in Norwich and apprenticed to John Crome. Stark was a leading member of the Norwich School painters and was President of the Norwich Society of Artists in 1829, he is generally considered as amongst the best of the second-generation of Norwich School artists...
Rowland Suddaby (1912 - 1972)

Rowland Suddaby (1912 - 1972)

Rowland Suddaby was born in Kimberworth, Yorkshire and won a scholarship to study at Sheffield College of Art and then attended the Royal College of Art. Early in his career he was exhibiting at the New English Art Club and leading London galleries including the Redfearn and Leger galleries...

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Guy Taplin (b. 1939)

Guy Taplin (b. 1939)

Guy Taplin was born in London and was largely self taught. A lifelong interest in ornithology led to a job as bird keeper in Regent’s Park, on seeing decoy ducks in an antique market around 1975 he hit upon the idea of carving his own...
George Thomas Rope (1845 - 1912)

George Thomas Rope (1845 - 1912)

George Thomas Rope was born in Blaxhall Suffolk and spent the majority of his 83 years living and working in the village. He was educated at Ipswich School and then spent a year studying under the artist William Webb before travelling on the Continent and returning to Blaxhall...
Valerie Thornton (1931 - 1991)

Valerie Thornton (1931 - 1991)

Valerie Thornton was born in London and trained at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting and Regent Street Polytechnic. In 1954 she studied etching and engraving at Stanley William Hayter’s Paris Atelier and she purchased her first etching press...
Roy Turner Durrant (1925 - 1998)

Roy Turner Durrant (1925 - 1998)

Roy Turner Durrant was born in Lavenham, Suffolk and showed a keen interest in art at an early age, particularly drawing aeroplanes. After active service in WWII with the Suffolk Regiment he attended Camberwell School of Art from 1948-1952...

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John Vine (1809 - 1867)

John Vine (1809 - 1867)

John Vine’s life was extraordinary. The son of a shoemaker, he was born in Bury St Edmunds in 1809 with malformed arms caused by a rare genetic disorder. From a very early age he was exhibited as a curiosity...

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Frederick Waters Watts (1800 - 1870)

Frederick Waters Watts (1800 - 1870)

Frederick Waters Watts is the best known of a group of landscape artists painting in the manner of John Constable. Early biography for this artist is sketchy but he is thought to have entered the Royal Academy in 1817...
Philip Wilson Steer (1860 - 1942)

Philip Wilson Steer (1860 - 1942)

Philip Wilson Steer was born in Birkenhead, the son of a portrait painter and art teacher. He was anticipating a career in the Civil Service but found the exams too demanding so resolved to become an artist. He initially trained at Gloucester School of Art and South Kensington Drawing Schools...
Denis Wirth-Miller (1915 - 2010)

Denis Wirth-Miller (1915 - 2010)

Denis Wirth-Miller was born in Kent and after school pursued a career in textile design in Manchester. Moving to London in 1937 he met his life-partner Richard ‘Dicky’ Chopping...

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Doris Zinkeisen (1898 - 1991)

Doris Zinkeisen (1898 - 1991)

Doris Zinkeisen was born in Rosneath, Scotland, her younger sister, Anna Zinkeisen (1901-1976), was born three years later. Both sisters attended Harrow School of Art and both won scholarships to the Royal Academy Schools...
Anna Zinkeisen (1901 - 1975)

Anna Zinkeisen (1901 - 1975)

Anna Zinkeisen was born in Scotland, the younger sister of artist Doris Zinkeisen (1898-1991), she followed her sister to the Royal Academy Schools, winning a scholarship when she was just 15...