Leonard Russell Squirrell - Artist Info

About Leonard Russell Squirrell

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    Leonard Russell Squirrell (1893-1979)

    Born at Ipswich on 30 October 1893, son of Frank Squirrell, a carpenter, and his wife Henrietta née Clemmence, who died at Ipswich in 1902, aged 39. As a boy he lived at 82 Spring Road with his brother and widowed father and a housekeeper until in 1905 when his father married Alice Lucy Watson. In 1911 a 17 year old art student still at 82 Spring Road with his 44 year old father, 36 year old step-mother, 19 year old elder brother Sydney Frank and his step-brother, 2 year old Leslie Watson.

    Educated at the British School of Art in Ipswich and in 1908 joined the Ipswich School of Art as a full-time student under George Rushton and remained there until 1916. In 1913 one of ...

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