JOHN WILSON JOWSEY (1884-1963)

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Watercolour and chalks

Signed twice

31.00 cm wide   36.00 cm high

12.20 inches wide  14.17 inches high

London, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.

John Wilson Jowsey was born in Ashington, Northumberland, the son of a shipwright. He studied art in Edunburgh, Paris and Newlyn. Shortly before the World War I he opened a studio in Newcastle, where he painted portraits of leading Tyneside shipowners. In 1928 he moved to London, were he worked as a portrait painter until his death. He exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, Paris Salon and elsewhere.

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