Walter Herbert Allcott
Walter Herbert Allcott (1889-1951) was born in Ladywood in Birmingham. He trained at the Birmingham School of Art from 1897 to 1901.[1] While he began painting oil portraits, he later worked primarily in watercolour and pastel, depicting landscapes and architectural subjects.[2]
He moved to Chipping Camden in Gloucestershire in 1919.[1] In 1920 he became member of the Royal Watercolour Society.[3] In 1921, William John Wainwright, a prominent member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, proposed that he become a member.[4] There, over the period between 1899 and 1939 he exhibited over 200 works.[5]
He travelled widely, frequently travelling to Italy in the 1920s and therefore his subjects are from all over Europe.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Wildman, Stephen (1990). The Birmingham School. Birmingham: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
- ^ Waters, Grant M. (1975). Dictionary of British Artists, working in 1900 - 1950. Hilmarton Manor Press.
- ^ Flynn, Brendan (2014). RBSA, A Place for Artists: The Story of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. Birmingham: Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.
- ^ RBSA Minutes, Annual General Meeting, 19 March 1921 (unpublished manuscript). Birmingham: RBSA Archives. 1921. p. 230.
- ^ Morris, Sidney; Morris, Kathleen (1974). A Catalogue of Birmingham and West Midlands Painters of the Nineteenth Century. Stratford-upon-Avon: S & K Morris.
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