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Ernest Albert Chadwick RBSA RCamA RI NSA (1876-1956)


Ernest Albert Chadwick, RBSA RCamA RI NSA (1876-1956)

The landscape watercolours of E A Chadwick are detailed, realistic and carefully composed, but also gentle in both handling and mood. His best known works depict rural life in his native Warwickshire and surrounding counties, but he travelled widely by bicycle across England and Wales in order to discover suitable subjects.

Ernest Albert Chadwick was born in the village of Marston Green, Warwickshire, on 29 February 1876, the second of three children of the draughtsman and wood engraver, John William Chadwick, and his wife, Emily (née Woolley). Probably at that time, and certainly by 1881, the family was living at 2 Culey Place. A decade later, it had moved a few miles south to Back Lane, Hampton in Arden, and the 15-year-old Ernest was describing himself as a ‘draughtsman’. He almost certainly studied under his father before he attended Birmingham Municipal School of Art.

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