About Gerard de Rose
Lived 1918 – 1987 (aged 68–69). Gerard de Rose was a British painter and teacher.
Gerard de Rose (1918–1987) was an English portrait painter and teacher. Accrington, Lancashire, in 1918, the son of a Russian emigree who was a professor of music and a surgeon. de Rose went to Accrington School of Art and then the Royal College of Art in 1939, having won a Royal Exhibition in textile design.
In World War II de Rose served in the Royal Engineers. He took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk.
After the war de Rose returned to the Royal College of Art. Sammy Davis Jr.; Claire Bloom; and other galleries, and Self Portrait,
In 1984 Herbert Lom gave de Rose's portrait Herbert Lom (b.1917), as the King in 'The King and I' by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Who was Gerard de Rose?
Portrait painter and teacher (1918–1987)
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Gerard de Rose was born in 1918 in Accrington.
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Gerard de Rose died in 1987 in London.
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Gerard de Rose was a painter and teacher.
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