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Name
  
Romilly Fedden

Children
  
Robin Fedden

Education
  
Academie Julian

Died
  
1939

Role
  
Artist


Romilly Fedden

Arthur Romilly Fedden (1875–1939) was an English artist and watercolourist. The son of businessman Henry Fedden, his younger brother was the engineer Roy Fedden.

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Romilly studied under Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey, at the Académie Julian in Paris, and finally in Spain. He lived and worked in France, in a place called Chantemesle near Vetheuil on the Seine. He was married to Katharine Waldo Douglas, an American writer; their son Robin Fedden was also a writer.

Romilly Fedden wrote two books: Modern Water Colour (1918) and Golden Days from the Fishing Log of a Painter in Brittany (1919). He also illustrated a book written by his wife on the Basque country.

He died from injuries sustained in the crash of the Sud Express in March 1939. His wife, who was also injured, died soon after him.

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