About John Victor Emms
Lived 1912 – 1993 (aged 80–81). John Victor Emms was a British painter and visual artist.
John Victor Emms (1912–1993) was an English landscape painter, who worked chiefly in oils and watercolours.
Life and work
John Victor Emms was born in Bordon near Aldershot on 13 February 1912. His father, also called John Emms, was enrolled in the British armed forces. He studied art at Woolwich Polytechnic Art School under A. Buckley and L.S.M. Prince from 1930 to 1934, Hornsey School of Art under A.S.H. Mills and F. Mitchell from 1946 to 1948 and later at Goldsmiths' College School of Art from 1948 to 1949. Three of his paintings were purchased by Brighton Museum & Art Gallery with assistance from the Wilson Bequest in 1968.
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British artist (1912-1993)
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John Victor Emms was born in 1912.
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John Victor Emms died in 1993.
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John Victor Emms was a painter and visual artist.
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