Although never a member of the Camden Town Group, he was a close associate who was an active painter, as well as being a patron, collector and advocate.
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A pupil of Sickert, his painting are high in chroma and influenced by Post-Impressionism. He has sadly become largely forgotten today.
Completed his training in 1908, then progressed rapidly to Fauvist landscapes. Exhibited at the 1913 Armory Exhibition in New York, but dead in 1914.
He divided his time between summer painting in the Blackdown Hills in East Devon, and views of London and its remaining working horses.
Trained in Paris, visited the Pont-Aven art colony and met Gauguin, his early style was radical. He documented the last decades of working horses in London, and rural East Devon.
A friend of Spencer Gore and Charles Ginner, he painted interiors, portraits, and landscapes, which were originally made in front of the motif.
In the latter half of 1912, his style became overly Fauvist and was also influenced by Cubism. A move back to London brought a reversion, though.
Son of the first Wimbledon tennis champion, he developed a Post-Impressionist style in his paintings from 1907 to the time of his marriage in early 1912.
Between 1910-14, avant garde painting in Britain came to the fore, with exhibitions of the Allied Artists Association, Fry’s Post-Impressionists, and this group of 16 painters.
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