Henry Rushbury

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Sir Henry George "Harry" Rushbury (October 28, 1889 – July 5, 1968) was an English painter and etcher.

Born the son of a clerk in Harborne, then on the outskirts of Birmingham, Rushbury studied on a scholarship under Robert Catterson Smith at the Birmingham School of Art from the age of thirteen. He worked as an assistant to Henry Payne chiefly as a stained-glass artist, until 1912, when he moved to London, where he shared lodgings with fellow Birmingham student, Gerald Brockhurst.^[1]

Rushbury was an official war artist during World War I, and took up etching and drypoint under the influence of Francis Dodd before studying briefly under Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Art in 1921.^[2]

He was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1917, the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1921, the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1922, and the Royal Academy in 1936. In 1940 he was again appointed an official war artist until 1945. In 1949, he was elected Keeper of the Royal Academy and Head of the Royal Academy Schools, a post he held until 1964.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Hutchison, S. C. (2004). "Rushbury, Sir Henry George (1889–1968)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online Edition ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
↑ "Sir Henry Rushbury". Tate Collection. Tate. Retrieved 2008-12-12.

3 Henry Rushbury: Prints, A catalogue Resonne. Published by The Royal Academy 2010 by Tod Ramos, Julia Rushbury, and Felicity Owen.

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Name	Rushbury, Henry
Alternative names
Short description	British artist
Date of birth	October 28, 1889
Place of birth	Harborne,by Birmingham
Date of death	July 5, 1968
Place of death	Lewes,Sussex

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