About Walter Rossiter
Lived 1871 – 1948 (aged 76–77). Walter Rossiter was a painter.
Walter Rossiter PS (16 February 1871 - 1948) was an English landscape and garden painter mainly in pastel and watercolour although he also produced some fine examples in oil.
Born in Bath, Walter studied in Paris and Rouen The Pastel Society, the Paris Salon and in 1913 the Royal Academy.
His father Thomas, professional gardener, where he probably came in touch with the work of George Samuel Elgood and Ernest Arthur Rowe, both garden painters living in Kent.
In 1918 after the Exhibition at the Pastel Society, Rossiter received a mention by the critic Ezra Pound on The New Age Magazine. Walter Rossiter was a member of the Pastel society and Founder of the Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists.
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British artist (1871-1948)
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Walter Rossiter was born on 16 February 1871.
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Walter Rossiter died in 1948.
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Walter Rossiter was a painter.
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