Artist: Bernard Fleetwood-Walker RA
Entitled: Portrait of a Woman
Size: 39 x 29cm
Description: Oil on Ply, signed
Price: Sold
Bernard Fleetwood-Walker was a painter and draughtsman mainly of figures and portraits. He was born in Birmingham where he lived for most of his life. Initially he was a modeller and metalworker and then studied painting at Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts, followed by London and Paris.
He was wounded and gassed during World War I during service in the Artists' Rifles, but continued to paint and draw. After the war he taught for about 10 years at King Edward's Grammar School, Aston and in 1929 left to teach at the Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts.
He exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy from 1925 and was elected Member in 1956. He otherwise showed mainly at the Royal Watercolour Society, the New English Art Club, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He also had a one-man show at the Ruskin Gallery, Birmingham in 1925 and won a silver medal at the Paris Salon.
After his retirement from teaching he moved to London in 1951 to give more time to students at the Royal Academy Schools, where he had been appointed assistant keeper.
Work by Bernard Fleetwood-Walker is held in the Royal Academy, Leeds City Art Gallery and other provincial and foreign galleries. A memorial exhibition was held in Birmingham in 1965 and a retrospective exhibition was held at John Lindsey Fine Art, Solihull/Belgrave Gallery in 1981.
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