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  • Collection: Arts and Crafts

A painting celebrating local Arts & Craft craftsmen by Sir William Rothenstein. It was painted in his studio at Far Oakridge House and was completed in 1938. Left to Right :- Harry Davoll - Cabinet Maker Harry Gardiner - Builder Fred Gardiner (seated)- Cabinet Maker Alfred Bucknell - Blacksmith Tom Hunt - Plasterer and Tiler

Sir William Rothenstein and Sir Max Beerbohm in 1893
Among the many newcomers, one of the best known was Sir William Rothenstein. Born in Bradford in 1872, the son of a cloth merchant. he studied art at the Slade and in Paris where, as his great nephew Max Rutherstone wrote, 'the seventeen year old…

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Alfred Powell was born in Reading, Berkshire, on 14 April 1865, the son of Thomas Edward Powell by Emma Corrie. He was the architectural pupil of John Dando Sedding, working in the 'crafted Gothic' tradition inspired by John Ruskin. His wife, Ada…
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