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Bernard Walter Evans BIOGRAPHY
1843 Wolverhampton, England - 1922 London, England. Known for: Realist style rural landscape painting, etching.
Bernard Walter Evans was born on 26 December 1843 at Queen Street, Wolverhampton, the second of 13 children born to Walter Swift Evans and his wife, Sophia (nee Spilsbury). His father, Walter Swift... Read full biography
Bernard Walter Evans was born on 26 December 1843 at Queen Street, Wolverhampton, the second of 13 children born to Walter Swift Evans and his wife, Sophia (nee Spilsbury). His father, Walter Swift Evans, was also an artist who utilised his creative abilities in a professional capacity, working as... Read full biography
Bernard Walter Evans was born on 26 December 1843 at Queen Street, Wolverhampton, the second of 13 children born to Walter Swift Evans and his wife, Sophia (nee Spilsbury). His father, Walter Swift Evans, was also an artist who utilised his creative abilities in a professional capacity, working as an engraver on gold and silver, a copper plate engraver and a master church furniture maker; he was associated with Pugin in the revival of mediaeval architecture. His working life was spent in and... Read full biography
Bernard Walter Evans was born on 26 December 1843 at Queen Street, Wolverhampton, the second of 13 children born to Walter Swift Evans and his wife, Sophia (nee Spilsbury). His father, Walter Swift Evans, was also an artist who utilised his creative abilities in a professional capacity, working as an engraver on gold and silver, a copper plate engraver and a master church furniture maker; he was associated with Pugin in the revival of mediaeval architecture. His working life was spent in and around Birmingham. Bernard Evans studied painting in Birmingham from the age of 7, under the direction of Samuel Lines, William Wallis and Edward Watson. He married Mary Ann Eliza Hollyer at St Luke's, Kentish Town in London on 2 August 1870. His wife... Read full biography
Bernard Walter Evans was born on 26 December 1843 at Queen Street, Wolverhampton, the second of 13 children born to Walter Swift Evans and his wife, Sophia (nee Spilsbury). His father, Walter Swift Evans, was also an artist who utilised his creative abilities in a professional capacity, working as an engraver on gold and silver, a copper plate engraver and a master church furniture maker; he was associated with Pugin in the revival of mediaeval architecture. His working life was spent in and around Birmingham. Bernard Evans studied painting in Birmingham from the age of 7, under the direction of Samuel Lines, William Wallis and Edward Watson. He married Mary Ann Eliza Hollyer at St Luke's, Kentish Town in London on 2 August 1870. His wife was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann Eliza Hollyer; her father was an engraver, her brother, Frederick... Read full biography
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Bernard Walter Evans was born on 26 December 1843 at Queen Street, Wolverhampton, the second of 13 children born to Walter Swift Evans and his wife, Sophia (nee Spilsbury).
His father, Walter Swift Evans, was also an artist who utilised his creative abilities in a professional capacity, working as an engraver on gold and silver, a copper plate engraver and a master church furniture maker; he was associated with Pugin in the revival of mediaeval architecture. His working life was spent in and around Birmingham.
Bernard Evans studied painting in Birmingham from the age of 7, under the direction of Samuel Lines, William Wallis and Edward Watson.
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