Artist. Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire. Entered the civil service, but found the examinations too demanding. Became an artist in 1878. Rejected by the Royal Academy of Art, he studied in Paris. He was one of the founders of the New English Art Club. Recruited by Lord Beaverbrook during the first world war to paint pictures of the Royal Navy. Awarded the Order of Merit in 1931. Died at 109 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
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Philip Wilson Steer
Greater London Council Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942, painter lived and died ...
Painter and etcher. Born Dumbarton, aged 17 came to the Slade School of Art and stayed in London. Illustrated the works of John Bunyan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling. A Google image ...
Mural artist active in late 1970s - 1983. Worked with Binnington on two murals at Royal Oak.
Painter. Born Chatham in Kent. Died in a lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, outside London of "an extensive disease of the lungs".
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