Beautiful Oil On Canvas Painting Seated Nude By Renowned Painter Roland Batchelor Royal Academy (1889 -1990)
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A fabulous nude oil on canvas painting by renowned painter Roland Batchelor. Original gallery ticket to the rear with purchase price from 1970's.
Roland Batchelor was born in Chelsea on 16 October 1889. He drew and painted from an early age, and established his primary subject from a school trip to France: a relaxed view of life in the country comparable to French film comedies and work of Daumier and Lautrec. He entered the Civil Service in 1905, and attended evening classes given by Punch artist George Morrow at the Putney School of Art; his comic contributions to the Civil Service Opinion were obviously influenced by Morrow’s teaching. After serving in France and Italy during the First World War, he studied under Harry Watson at the Regent Street Polytechnic; at the same time, he discovered a volume on Rembrandt which helped him to develop hid characteristically lively line.
Batchelor exhibited watercolours at the RA from 1937, and watercolour proved to be his essential medium, fitted to his light subjects (some of which have affinities with the work of Ardizzone). In 1949, he retired as Chief Executive Officer in the Customs and Excise Department, and returned, with his son Bernard Batchelor, to study under Middleton Todd, at the City and Guilds School. Elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours (ARWS 1957, RWS 1966), he was the subject of a retrospective at the Bankside Gallery in 1987. He died on 6 October 1990.
Bernard William Roland Batchelor, RWS (1889-1990)
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