Charles E. Flower

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Charles Edwin Flower (* 1871 in Merton , Surrey , † 1951 in Wallingford (Oxfordshire) ) was an English painter, printmaker and illustrator .

Life

The arcade building in Bad Kissingen, painted by Charles E. Flower around 1906

Flower studied painting at the Royal College of Art in London . After his wedding in Croydon to the ten years older sculptor Alice Berta D. Perry (born June 1, 1860 in Croydon, Surrey; † unknown), daughter of George Perry and Amelia Norris , the couple initially lived in Balham (London) , later in Anerley near London, where son Edwin was born.

From 1890 to 1894 he worked in Rushmore ( Wiltshire ) for an annual salary of 72 pounds sterling as an assistant to the ethnologist and archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900) and illustrated his first collection catalogs. In September 1895 Flower showed his painting " Gold Hill, Shaftesbury " at an exhibition in Larmer Tree Gardens, Wiltshire.

In 1899 Flower exhibited some of his works in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts . In 1902 he made a study trip of several years to the American continent and visited New York City , Toronto , Ottawa , Montreal , Québec , Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro . From 1906 he traveled through Europe and stayed mainly in Germany . Numerous postcard motifs date from this time .

Together with Henry B. Wimbush (1858–1943) he worked for the London postcard publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons for almost four decades . Flower's motifs from his travels were mainly sold in large numbers in his postcard series " Oilette " (small versions of oil paintings), which has been published since 1903 .

In 1907 Flower moved with his family to Wallingford (Oxfordshire), where he lived until his death (1951) and worked for the London postcard publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons.

Some of his paintings are now in the British Museum .

Book illustrations

  • Picturesque Thames from Richmond to Oxford. From Original Water Colors , Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1907
  • George Frederick Edwards: Old Time Paris , A. Doubleday, London 1908
  • Charles Eyre Pascoe: No 10, Downing Street , Duckworth & Company, London 1908
  • Heinrich Heine: Remembrance Days, Memories and Birthday Book , Raphael Tuck & Sons Verlag, London 1913

Web links

Commons : Charles E. Flower  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charles Flower, Artists who created the catalogs: All the drawings from page 741 to this page [1016 ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. were drawn by Charles Flower]  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.prm.ox.ac.uk
personal data
SURNAME Flower, Charles E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flower, Charles Edwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English painter, printmaker and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Merton , Surrey
DATE OF DEATH 1951
Place of death Wallingford (Oxfordshire)