Frederick william elwell biography of william hill

English painter (1870–1958)

Frederick William ElwellRA (29 June 1870 in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire – 3 January 1958 in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire) was an English painter in oils of portraits, interiors and figurative subjects.

He exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy, where he became a member in 1938, and painted a portrait of King George V in 1932.^[1]

Career

Frederick Elwell was born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, the son of wood carver James Edward Elwell.^[2] He studied at the Lincoln School of Art.

Here he became interested in French Impressionism. In 1887 he was granted a scholarship which made it possible for him to dedicate himself fully to his artistic studies. In 1889 he became a student \at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where the Flemish portrait painter Pieter Van Havermaet was one of his teachers.^[3][4] At the Antwerp Academy he further develo