Henry Rushbury

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Sir Henry George Rushbury

RA (28 October 1889 – 5 July 1968) was an English painter and etcher
.

The War Refugees' Camp, Earl's Court (1918)

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.[1]

Rushbury was an official

Slade School of Art in 1921.[2]

He was elected a member of the

Royal Academy
in 1936.

Shipbuilding, Glasgow (1944)

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.[3]

In 1949, he was elected Keeper of the Royal Academy and Head of the

Royal Academy Schools, a post he held until 1964.[1] 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.

A memorial to Henry Rushbury in St James's Church, Piccadilly, London.

Notes

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35873
    . Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  2. ^ "Sir Henry Rushbury". Tate Collection. Tate. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  3. ISBN 978-0-300-10890-3
    .

References

  • Henry Rushbury Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné. Published by The Royal Academy 2010 by Tod Ramos, Julia Rushbury, and Felicity Owen.

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