Glyn Warren Philpot

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Glyn Warren Philpot (born October 5, 1884 in Clapham , † December 16, 1937 in London ) was an English painter .

Life

Philpot was born in 1884 as the fourth child of John Philpot and Jessie Carpenter Philpot. After his mother died seven years later, his father married her half-sister Julia. At the age of 15, Philpot went to the Lambeth School of Art . From 1904 he exhibited his pictures at the Royal Academy in London . He converted to the Roman Catholic faith in Paris and often worked in Spain. Philpot served in the British infantry during World War I but was dismissed for incapacity in 1917. He portrayed the British Admiralty . In 1921 he painted portraits in the USA. later in Italy and Egypt. In 1927 he became a curator of the Tate Gallery . He was elected President of the Guild of Catholic Artists and painted a number of pictures with religious subjects. He had a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 1930. In 1931 he went to Berlin, where his pictures with homosexual content caused irritation. He later went to Spain and Morocco. He died of a heart attack in London at the age of 53 and was buried in Petersham.

Works

The list is not complete.

  • The Man in Black (1913)
  • A Young Breton (1917)
  • Portrait of Siegfried Sassoon (1917)
  • Melampus and the Centaur (1919)
  • The Coast of Britain (1919-20)
  • L'Après-midi tunisien (1921)
  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1922)
  • Angel of the Annunciation (1925)
  • Portrait of Oswald Mosley (1925)
  • Weight Lifting, Berlin (1931)
  • Fugue (1931-32)
  • Oedipus Replying to the Sphinx (1932)
  • Acrobats Waiting to Rehearse (1935)
  • Bistro, Le Havre (1937)
  • Portrait of Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett of Landford (1898–1949)
  • Penelope
  • Negro as harlequin
  • Cactus

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  1. ↑ Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Biographies ( Memento from December 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ PM History , January 2007, p. 94 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Philpot, Glyn Warren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Clapham
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1937
Place of death London