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Walter Ernest Webster
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Walter Ernest Webster (1877-1959) was a British figure and portrait painter and also worked as an illustrator.
==Biography==
Webster was born in [[Manchester]] on 17 November 1877, the son of Robert Walter Waitham Webster (salesman of Greenheys, [[Manchester]]) and Mary Webster. He was baptised on 10 January 1878, which may be the source for the erroneous year of birth that is commonly given. The 17 November 1877 date is given not only on his baptismal record, but also on the [https://ift.tt/2ScqU9d 1939 Register for England and Wales].
He won a scholarship to study at the National Art Training Schools (which was renamed the [[Royal College of Art]]) before attending the [[Royal_Academy_of_Arts#Royal_Academy_Schools|Royal Academy Schools]] from 24 January 1899 to 1904.<ref name="RA"></ref>
By the age of 23 he was living in Putney, London with his mother Mary and his elder sister Gertrude Mary, a shorthand-typist (b. 21 March 1876). He enlisted for service in the 4th Battalion of the Essex Regiment on 14 February 1916.
He married Susan Beatrice Pearse (b. 19 January 1978), and artist and book illustrator, at Fulham in December 1919.<ref="Marriage"></ref> By 1939 he was living with his wife and sister Gertrude Broome Villa, 27 Broomhouse Road, near Parsons Green. He still lived at that address when he died on 30 April 1959 leaving £6,158 17s 9d to his widow Susan and his sister Gertrude.
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==Work==
Once attending the [[Royal_Academy_of_Arts#Royal_Academy_Schools|Royal Academy_Schools]] he started exhibiting works at the [[Royal Academy]], and continued to exhibit there almost every year until his death in May 1959. He also exhibited at the [[Royal Institute of Oil Painters]], [[Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours]], [[Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts|Royal Glasgow Institute]] and the [[Paris Salon]], where he was awarded bronze and silver medals before WW1 and a gold in 1931.
He specialised in painting portraits of young women in a soft, fluid style. He seems to have delighted in ornate dresses. He painted very few male subjects.
Webster produced illustrations for the front covers of several publications including "Ladies' Home Journal" and "Etude". Many of these reflected the Art Deco style of the period. He also produced illustrations for books, including "Champion" by John Colin Dane (1907) and "For Treasure Bound" by [[Harry Collingwood]] (1910).
==Works==
Webster produced a large body of work. An image search for his name yielded over sixty uniques images on Google. Artnet currently lists 161 auctions (including some pieces which have been sold numerous times) of works by Webster since 1995.<ref name="ArtNet">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ) Since 1998 the highest price paid for a work by Webster was $62,935 USD for "The Japanese Fan", sold at Christie's London in 2004.<ref name="MArt">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Webster's work can be seen in many public collections in the UK including The Walker Art Gallery, Gallery Oldham, Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Maclean Museum and Art Gallary Welcome Collection and The Government Art Collection, which holds Webster's portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.<ref name="ArtUK"></ref> Webster had earlier painted a water colour of the young Princess Elizabeth.
==References==
==Biography==
Webster was born in [[Manchester]] on 17 November 1877, the son of Robert Walter Waitham Webster (salesman of Greenheys, [[Manchester]]) and Mary Webster. He was baptised on 10 January 1878, which may be the source for the erroneous year of birth that is commonly given. The 17 November 1877 date is given not only on his baptismal record, but also on the [https://ift.tt/2ScqU9d 1939 Register for England and Wales].
He won a scholarship to study at the National Art Training Schools (which was renamed the [[Royal College of Art]]) before attending the [[Royal_Academy_of_Arts#Royal_Academy_Schools|Royal Academy Schools]] from 24 January 1899 to 1904.<ref name="RA"></ref>
By the age of 23 he was living in Putney, London with his mother Mary and his elder sister Gertrude Mary, a shorthand-typist (b. 21 March 1876). He enlisted for service in the 4th Battalion of the Essex Regiment on 14 February 1916.
He married Susan Beatrice Pearse (b. 19 January 1978), and artist and book illustrator, at Fulham in December 1919.<ref="Marriage"></ref> By 1939 he was living with his wife and sister Gertrude Broome Villa, 27 Broomhouse Road, near Parsons Green. He still lived at that address when he died on 30 April 1959 leaving £6,158 17s 9d to his widow Susan and his sister Gertrude.
<ref="Death"></ref>
==Work==
Once attending the [[Royal_Academy_of_Arts#Royal_Academy_Schools|Royal Academy_Schools]] he started exhibiting works at the [[Royal Academy]], and continued to exhibit there almost every year until his death in May 1959. He also exhibited at the [[Royal Institute of Oil Painters]], [[Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours]], [[Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts|Royal Glasgow Institute]] and the [[Paris Salon]], where he was awarded bronze and silver medals before WW1 and a gold in 1931.
He specialised in painting portraits of young women in a soft, fluid style. He seems to have delighted in ornate dresses. He painted very few male subjects.
Webster produced illustrations for the front covers of several publications including "Ladies' Home Journal" and "Etude". Many of these reflected the Art Deco style of the period. He also produced illustrations for books, including "Champion" by John Colin Dane (1907) and "For Treasure Bound" by [[Harry Collingwood]] (1910).
==Works==
Webster produced a large body of work. An image search for his name yielded over sixty uniques images on Google. Artnet currently lists 161 auctions (including some pieces which have been sold numerous times) of works by Webster since 1995.<ref name="ArtNet">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ) Since 1998 the highest price paid for a work by Webster was $62,935 USD for "The Japanese Fan", sold at Christie's London in 2004.<ref name="MArt">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Webster's work can be seen in many public collections in the UK including The Walker Art Gallery, Gallery Oldham, Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Maclean Museum and Art Gallary Welcome Collection and The Government Art Collection, which holds Webster's portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.<ref name="ArtUK"></ref> Webster had earlier painted a water colour of the young Princess Elizabeth.
==References==
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