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Stuart Tresilian
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Unknown lady unframed, signed pencil sketch with slight foxing £20.00 not including shipping |
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A pose An unframed, signed pencil sketch with slight foxing £20.00 not including shipping |
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The 'Galon' A mythical bird, a sort of phoenix, who was the emblem of the unconquered. A creature from Burmese legend. An unused,
unframed pencil drawing with slight foxing and creasing, from
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Cecil Stuart Tresilian, painter, illustrator and teacher, born in Bristol in 1891, illustrated many books, notably a series of children’s stories by Enid Blyton and some by Rudyard Kipling.
His first solo show at Upper Grosvenor Galleries was in 1970 and included illustrations to Kipling’s Mowgli stories, based on drawings done in the London Zoo and photographs.
He became a brother of the Art Workers’ Guild and was master in 1960. He was a member of SGA and also its president from 1962-5. He studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art, teaching there as a pupil teacher before gaining a scholarship to the Royal College of Art.
During World War 1 he was taken prisoner at Rastatt, in Germany. His drawings of camp life can be found in the Imperial War Museum. He became a brother of the Art Workers’ Guild and was master in 1960.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
After the First World War he returned to teach at Regent Street Polytechnic, living in London before retiring to Winslow. He died in 1974.
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