About Grace English
Lived 1891 – 1956 (aged 64–65). Grace English was a British painter.
Grace Geraldine English (1891-4 December 1956) was a British painter and etcher.
Biography English was born in London and as a teenager spent time in Paris and Germany. In Germany she met I. A. R. Wylie and produced illustrations for her book on the Black Forest. At the Slade she won a painting prize. During World War I, English worked in a munitions factory and also produced machine drawings. After the war she studied etching at the Royal College of Art during 1921. Throughout her career English painted portraits, flowers and ballet dancers. Her work was shown by the New Society of Artists and she was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and at the New English Art Club and with the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Leeds City Art Gallery holds examples of her work.
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Who was Grace English?
British painter (1891-1956)
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Grace English was born in 1891 in London.
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Grace English died in 1956.
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Grace English was a painter.
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Grace English was British.
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