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Up for sale a RARE! "English Painter" Henry Rushbury Hand Signed 3X3 Card.
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Sir Henry George
"Harry" Rushbury KCVO CBE RA (28 October 1889 – 5 July 1968) was an English painter
and etcher. 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. 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.
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. Around 1943 the owner of a Port
Glasgow shipyard, James Lithgow,
complained to the War Artists' Advisory
Committee, WAAC, about Stanley Spencer's portrayal of his shipyard. WAAC duly
commissioned Rushbury to go to Port Glasgow and produce some rather more
conventional views of shipbuilding for Lithgow. 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. There
is a memorial to Rushbury in St James's Church,
Piccadilly, London.
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