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William Ratcliffe (1870-1955)

Aliases: William Whitehead Ratcliffe

Professions: Painter; Water color painter; Illustrator

  • WILLIAM RATCLIFFE 1870 - 1955

  • William Whitehead Ratcliffe (British, 1870-1955)

  • William Ratcliffe , 1870 - 1955 cottage under snow, sweden oil on canvas

  • William Ratcliffe (British, 1870-1955) Haystacks

William Ratcliffe Biography

(b Churchwater, nr King’s Lynn, 6 Oct 1870; d London, 6 Jan 1955). English painter. He attended evening classes in design at Manchester School of Art under Walter Crane, and from 1894 worked for 12 years in London as a wallpaper designer. Ratcliffe moved to Letchworth in 1906 (where he probably worked as a commercial artist for a printing company) and there he met Harold Gilman in 1908 who encouraged him to resume painting. He moved back to London in 1910, where he studied part-time for one term at the Slade School of Art, and was introduced by Gilman to the Saturday afternoon gatherings at 19 Fitzroy Street.

Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online

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