Walter Westley Russell

Sir Walter Westley Russell

He was a teacher and then Assistant Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1895 and 1927. As a landscape painter he worked mainly in Yorkshire, Norfolk and Sussex. He also painted portraits and genre pictures. He was one of 150 artists chosen to represent Britain at the 1912 Venice Biennale Exhibition. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.^[2]

During World War I, he was a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and was mentioned in dispatches.

He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Academy on 22 April 1920, becoming a full Academician on 23 February 1926 and a Senior Academician on 1 January 1943.

Russell was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1931,^[4] and was knighted in 1935.^[5]

He married Lydia Burton (1881–1944) in 1900 and they had no children. He died at his home in Kensington, London in 1949.

Works

Russell's works include:

• A View of Poole Harbour
• The Morning Room (c. 1907)
• Barber's Shop (1909)
• Donkeys and Kites (1909)
• Carting Sand (1910)
• The Blue Dress (1911)
• Mr Minney (1920)
• Mrs David Jagger (c. 1925)
• Alice (c. 1926)
• The Amber Beads (1926)
• Cordelia (1930)
• The Farmyard (1934)
• High Tide, Blakeney (1938)
• Studland Beach (c. 1943)

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