Philip Whichelo

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Philip Horace Whichelo (* 1905 ; † 1989 ) was a British portrait painter and set designer .

Life

Philip Whichelo came from a family of artists, including the marine painter John Whichelo , the painter and author Henry Mayle Whichelo (1800-1884), the landscape painter Henry Mayle Whichelo (1826-1867) and Mary Eleanor "Nellie" Whichelo (1862-1959), the Chief Designer of the Royal School of Needlework . He was the son of Horace Winder Whichelo (1860–1942), an active croquet player , and Constance Whichelo, née Walford (1871–1962), and was sibling.

After working in an architect's drawing office, Philip Whichelo attended courses at the Putney School of Arts and the Hammersmith School of Art , where he won several prizes in portraiture and design. He then earned his living as a professional portrait painter. Several portraits of his friend Quentin Crisp date from this time , with whom he was known at a young age in Chelsea as "P and Q" because of their appearance in "unconventional clothing". With Crisp, who began to work as a professional artist model at the time of the First World War , he later enjoyed a friendship that lasted for decades.

Whichelo came to the theater through a local stage production. After some theater engagements as an actor, he decided that he was more suitable as a theater designer than as an actor. As a result, he had commissions for stage and television productions, including the television adaptation of Rutland Boughton's opera The Immortal Hour at Alexandra Palace . During the many years in this field he came into contact with well-known actors, including Sybil Thorndike , Vivien Leigh and Eric Portman . He produced his much-praised stage sets between 1949 and 1964 in London for the Hovenden Theater Club and the Gateway Theater Club, where Peter Zadek also directed in 1950 .

Eventually he retired from the stage and returned to work as a portrait painter. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous English galleries.

Whichelo was a cousin of the much older narrator Edward Morgan Forster ( EM Forster ), whom he often visited as a child in Surrey with his mother, Lily, his father's sister, and after the First World War sometimes attended King's College , where he was from him made a pastel portrait when he was around 75 years old. The picture was shown in 1978 on the occasion of the Forster exhibition on his 100th birthday in the British Museum and is now in Conway Hall . Philip Whichelo was the last representative of his Whichelo line to create their family tree for Philip Nicholas Furbank's 1978 Forster biography.

He was a member of the Richmond Art Group (now the Richmond Art Society ) in Richmond , Surrey , founded around 1950 , which has been exhibiting since 1951.

Stage sets (selection)

  • Womans Ward, Gateway Theater Club, London 1949
  • Marshall's Aid, Gateway Theater, London 1949-1950
  • Murder Happens, Gateway Theater, London 1949-1950 and Hovenden Theater Club 1961
  • The Golden Unicorn, Gateway Theater, London 1951 and 1971
  • Sweet Nothing, Hovenden Theater Club, London
  • The Reliver, Hovenden Theater Club, London
  • Burdalane, Gateway Theater, London 1952
  • The Judge's Will, New Gateway, London 1956
  • Hamlet, New Gateway Theater Club, London 1958
  • The Drummer (The Haunted House), Hovenden Theater Club, London 1961
  • Let them Cry, Hovenden Theater Club, 1961
  • Constant Lover, Hovenden Theater Club, 1962

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full name mentioned in: National Art-Collections Fund Review. National Art-Collections Fund, 1992, p. XXIII
  2. ↑ Full listing for Horace Whichelo (England), (1860–1942) in the Croquet Grading System database by Stephen Mulliner .
  3. ↑ Philip Nicholas Furbank: EM Forster. Polycrates' ring (1914-1970) [= Volume 2 by Philip Nicholas Furbank: EM Forster: A Life, Secker & Warburg ], 1978, pp. 26-27, 216, 323, XIX.
  4. ↑ Plays and Players, Volumes 9-10 . Iliffe Specialist Publications, 1950, pp. 7 .
  5. ↑ Clare Constance Abrahal: Amateur Dramatics . Collins, S. 67 .
  6. ↑ Peter Zadek: The years of travel: 1980 - 2009 . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04201-6 , pp. Works directory ( google.de ).
  7. ↑ Year's Work In The Theater . Longmans, Green & CO, 1950, pp. 45 u. 137 .
  8. ^ EM Forster (1879–1970) - Philip Whichelo (1905–1989). Art UK - Public Catalog Foundation.
  9. ↑ Philip Whichelo - portraitist. In: The Artist , 97 (1982), p. 31.
  10. ↑ Wichelo. Family tree in: Philip Nicholas Furbank: EM Forster. Polycrates' ring (1914-1970) [= Volume 2 by Philip Nicholas Furbank: EM Forster: A Life, Secker & Warburg ], 1978, p. XVIII.
  11. ^ Richmond Art Group. In: The Artist, 97 (1982), p. 35.
  12. ↑ International Theater Institute: World Premieres, Volumes 1-2 . S. 102 .
  13. ↑ Shakespeare Quarterly - Volume 9 - page 43 . Folger Shakespeare Library, 1958, p. 43 .
  14. ↑ Plays and Players, Volumes 9-10 . Hansom Books, 1961.
  15. ^ The Stage Year Book . Carson & Comerford, 1963, pp. 54 .
personal data
SURNAME Whichelo, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whichelo, Philip Horace (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British portrait painter and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1905
DATE OF DEATH 1989