Richard Wyndham (painter)
Richard Wyndham | |
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 Richard Wyndham in 1920 | |
| Born | 29 August 1896 Canterbury, England |
| Died | May 19, 1948 (aged 51) |
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| Spouse |
Iris Winifred Youell Bennett
(m. 1920; div. 1925)Grethe Wulfsberg (m. 1930) |
Guy Richard Charles Wyndham (29 August 1896 – 19 May 1948) was a British painter, engraver, author and soldier.[1] He made many work trips to southern Europe and died in Palestine while covering the war as a correspondent for The Sunday Times.[2] He was a member of the Bright Young People, a group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in London during the Roaring Twenties.[3]
Biography
[edit]Born into a landed gentry family in Canterbury, Wyndham was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[1][3]
He served as a lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army,[1] and, during the First World War, transferred at the Second Battle of Ypres, being awarded the Military Cross.[3]
Wyndham later began studying art; he was a pupil of the painter and novelist Wyndham Lewis.[2]
He purchased Tickerage Mill, a residence on the outskirts of Uckfield, Sussex, close to his friend, fellow painter Edward Wadsworth.[3] Wyndham drove fast cars, flew his own plane and partied with members of the Bright Young People, a group of young bohemians from British high society.[4]
He entered his first marriage in 1920 with Iris Winifred Youell Bennett (divorced in 1925) and, for the second time, with Grethe Wulfsberg in 1930.[1]
Wyndham exhibited at Goupil and Leicester and Tooth Galleries, having a first solo exhibition at the latter in 1933, and had works purchased by Edward Marsh, Manchester City Art Galleries and galleries in Brighton, Hull, Rochdale and Belfast.[3]
He died in 1948 in Palestine while covering the war as a correspondent for The Sunday Times.
List of paintings
[edit]| Image | Title | Date | Material | Collection |
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Winter Landscape | c. 1925 | ||
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A Dinka Herdsman | 1927/1937 | ||
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The Medway near Tonbridge | 1936 | ||
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The Pink Boat | 1938 | ||
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Tickerage Mill | c. 1939 | ||
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Summer Landscape (1) | 1947 | ||
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Still Waters | before 1948 | ||
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Storm over Greece | |||
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Summer Landscape (2) |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Lives of the First World War. "We remember – Guy Richard Charles Wyndham". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
- ^ a b Oxford Reference. "Wyndham, Guy Richard Charles". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d e 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
- ^ Gill, Brendan (1927). "Tallulah". Holt, Rinehart & Winston. p. 127. ISBN 9780030010262. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
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