Blandford Fletcher (1858 - 1936)
1858-11-08London, United Kingdom1936-06-27Abingdon, United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Blandford Fletcher
William Teulon Blandford Fletcher is a British artist and one of the early members of the influential Newlyn School of Artists. He joined the Lyfe class at the Royal Academy of Charles Wehrle in Antwerp.
Blandford Fletcher travelled and worked as an itinerant artist until settling in Dorking in 1904 and then in Abingdon-on-Thames in 1915. Fletcher's best known work is Evicted (painted in Steventon in 1887), the first painting acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery in 1896.
Date and place of birt: | 8 november 1858, London, United Kingdom |
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Date and place of death: | 27 june 1936, Abingdon, United Kingdom |
Nationality: | United Kingdom |
Period of activity: | XIX, XX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Genre painter, Landscape painter, Marine painter, Painter |
Art school / group: | Newlyn School |
Genre: | Cityscape, Genre art, Landscape painting, Marine art, Rural landscape |
Art style: | Realism |