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Name
  
Henry Rushbury

Role
  
Artist


Henry Rushbury Sir Henry Rushbury 18891968 Tate

Died
  
July 5, 1968, England, United Kingdom

Education
  
Slade School of Fine Art

Sir Henry George "Harry" Rushbury RA (28 October 1889 – 5 July 1968) was an English painter and etcher.

Henry Rushbury Sir Henry Rushbury Works on Sale at Auction Biography

Born the son of a clerk in Harborne, then on the outskirts of Birmingham, Rushbury studied on a scholarship under Robert Catterson Smith at the Birmingham School of Art from the age of thirteen. He worked as an assistant to Henry Payne chiefly as a stained-glass artist, until 1912, when he moved to London, where he shared lodgings with fellow Birmingham student, Gerald Brockhurst.

Henry Rushbury Custom House Kings Lynn by Henry Rushbury R A c1936 Welland

Rushbury was an official war artist during World War I, and took up etching and drypoint under the influence of Francis Dodd before studying briefly under Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Art in 1921.

Henry Rushbury The Forest of Brotonne Sir Henry Rushbury 1920 Tate

He was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1917, the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1921, the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1922, and the Royal Academy in 1936. In 1940 he was again appointed an official war artist until 1945. In 1949, he was elected Keeper of the Royal Academy and Head of the Royal Academy Schools, a post he held until 1964. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1964 New Year Honours.

Henry Rushbury Sir Henry Rushbury Works on Sale at Auction Biography

Henry Rushbury Sir Henry Rushbury Works on Sale at Auction Biography

Henry Rushbury Henry Rushbury 1 Gerald Leslie Brockhurst FAMSF Explore the Art

Henry Rushbury Sir Henry RUSHBURY RA RE 18891968 ABBOTT and HOLDER

References

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