School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Oswald Birley

Born: 1880, New Zealand   Died: 1952

Painter. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris before serving in the First World War. He married Rhoda Birley (1900-1980) and together they travelled to the Far East, America, Mexico and France. He worked as a society portraitist with sitters including King George's V and VI, General Eisenhower and Prime Ministers Baldwin, Atlee, Chamberlain and Sir Winston Churchill, the latter being a close friend. He lived at Charleston Manor in East Sussex

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Portrait of Sir Ellis Jones Griffiths K.C (1860-1926) OP22 Oil Paintings




 
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