Émile Antoine Verpilleux
| Émile Antoine Verpilleux | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 March 1888 London, United Kingdom |
| Died | 10 September 1964[1] |
Émile Antoine Verpilleux MBE (3 March 1888 – 10 September 1964) was an Anglo-Belgian artist who specialised in woodcut printmaking.[2][3] He was the first artist to have hung a coloured print work at the Royal Academy.[3]
Born in Notting Hill, London, to a Belgian father (also called Émile Antoine Verpilleux) and a Scottish mother (Edith Verpilleux, née Beard), he was educated in France and then at the Antwerp Académie des Beaux Arts.[3]
He served with the Royal Air Force in the First World War and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Dolman, Bernard (1962). Who's who in Art - Volume 14. p. 688.
- ↑ "BBC - Your Paintings - Émile Antoine Verpilleux". Retrieved 2015-04-24.
- 1 2 3 "Emile Antoine Verpilleux Biography". Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31098. p. 95. 1 January 1919.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 31605. p. 12792. 17 October 1919.
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