Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe

Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe (23 August 1871 – 17 October 1953) was a British portrait painter, miniaturist, illustrator and modeller. He was born at Landour, India. In 1881 he was living with his widowed mother in Walcot, Somerset. He studied at the South Kensington, St John's Wood (where he met Byam Shaw, also born in India) and Royal Academy Schools. He was working in Chelsea 1902–03 and at Albury, Surrey, 1914–25.[1][2]

Selected works
  • Pan
  • Study for the War Memorial at Albury, Surrey
  • The Molson Brothers: Harold and Eric, sons of John Elsdale Molson
gollark: Discussing politics also has the great effect of sometimes alienating people you know.
gollark: Since your probability of deciding an election by voting is not very high, the expected value of that is very low, and - since people are very hard to convince away from their views - it's even worse for *discussing* politics.
gollark: Regardless of how much you think the results of elections and such matter, I contest that for an individual, at least, politics is not very important.
gollark: So I appear to have been timed out: obviously, this is a clear sign that Cap and WS's views are correct and stand up by themselves.
gollark: Please pay attention.

References
  1. John Christian, Mary Anne Stevens, Barbican Art Gallery, The Last Romantics:The Romantic Tradition in British Art, Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, Lund Humphries Publishers, 1993 ISBN 0-85331-552-3 ISBN 978-0853315520
  2. Simon Houfe: The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, Antique Collectors' Club, 1996. ISBN 1-85149-193-7
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