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A shy quiet man who disliked crowds, he was elected an Artist Member in 1928. For thirty years he was an artist at E. S. & A. Robinson where he would be in contact with other Savages such as Ernest Andrews and R. B. Hooper-Jones who doubtless would have introduced him to the Tribe. He specialised in watercolours and is known for his large paintings and he exhibited at many of the Savage Exhibitions. In 1949 he retired from E. S. & A. Robinson and decided to concentrate on portrait painting and in 1955 he achieved considerable acclaim for his portrait of Brother Savage Harry Crook in mayoral robes. In the same year he gained a certain fame by his painting of two Wesley shrines in a cottage at Trewint in Cornwall. This was a cottage where Wesley had taken shelter and was very hallowed in Wesleyan circles. After the Wesleyans had renovated it they commissioned him to paint the shrines. As a matter of interest, this cottage is the smallest Methodist preaching place in the world. The Tribe possesses two records of his work and there is a press photograph of him beside the above portrait in one of our Scrap Books. In 1956 he was stricken by a severe nervous breakdown which terminated his career. On June 27th 1958 at a very low state and mentally disturbed, he took his own life at his home at 184, Redland Road aged fifty-seven. (Cecil Broome)
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