Lionel Townsend Crawshaw

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Lionel Townsend Crawshaw (* 1864 in Warmsworth near Doncaster , South Yorkshire , † 1949 in Bath , Somerset ) was a British painter , watercolorist and etcher .

Life

Crawshaw, son of the businessman Edward Crawshaw, attended the University of Cambridge after school , where he was trained as a solicitor . He then turned to painting and studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1889/1890 . There he went to Heinrich Lauenstein's elementary class . For further training he went to Karlsruhe and to the Académie Colarossi in Paris . For a time he lived in Doncaster and Edinburgh , and also in Whitby and Droitwich Spa . He exhibited his works at the Royal Academy of Arts , the Royal Scottish Academy and the New English Art Club , among others . From his first marriage to Juliette Menut from Belle-Île ( Brittany ), his son Harold Crawshaw emerged. The flower painter Frances Crawshaw (* 1876) was his second wife, with whom he lived in Yorkshire until the early 1930s , later in Trusham, Devon . Crawshaw is considered a member of the Staithes Group , an artist group that worked between 1894 and 1909 in the fishing village of Staithes on the Yorkshire coast.

literature

  • General Artist Lexicon , Volume 22 (1999), p. 207.
  • Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon, Mary Peskett Smith: British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections . Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2006, p. 276 ( Google Books ).
  • The Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art (Ed.): Report & Transactions . Volume 82/83 (1950), p. 20 ( Google Books ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. No. 186 ("Crawschaw, Leonel") in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 428
  3. ↑ Crawshaw, Frances , article in the portal oxfordindex.oup.com (Benezit Dictionary of Artists)
personal data
SURNAME Crawshaw, Lionel Townsend
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter, watercolourist and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Warmsworth near Doncaster , South Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH 1949
Place of death Bath , Somerset