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One of the Foundation Members at the Meeting of 1904. Living at 53, Waverley Road, Redland, he was fifty-four years old and already a well known artist, mainly in watercolours and an Academician of the R.W.A. Of very neat personal appearance with his well groomed moustache and imperial type of beard. He was a native of Falmouth and was a founder of the Bristol & District Cornishmen Association. He was known to have spent long periods in Cornwall and Devon painting coastal scenes which probably accounts for his not having contributed to the Bongie Portfolio. He was a keen Church man and closely connected with St. Agnes Church, St, Paul’s, where he became a Warden. He was also well known for his zeal in organising Charity Appeals for the poor and also children. To commemorate the first Savage Dinner, he presented the Tribe with a framed painting entitled Come Pick a Bone with Bristol Savages. (No. 240). Another of his works entitled Gloom!” (No. 683), which was done in 1912, is in the Tribe`s possession. That same year there were fourteen of his paintings in that year`s Exhibition. Again, as seemed the custom of artists who did not frequent the Studio, he presented us with a picture entitled Battle and the Breeze (No. 288). In June 1913 he died aged sixty-three, leaving a wife and four daughters. After his death. the Bristol Art Gallery purchased two of his paintings: 1.Bay of Sorrento, from Naples. 2. Sennen Cove, Cornwall. (Cecil Broome)
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