Walter Tyndale - Artist Info

About Walter Tyndale

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    Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale (1855–1943) was an English watercolour painter of landscapes, architecture and street scenes, book illustrator and travel writer.

    Tyndale was born and brought up in the medieval town of Bruges in Belgium, and trained initially at the "Bruges Academy of Art". When he was 16, his family returned to England, settling in Bath in Somerset for several years. At the age of 18, he returned to Belgium, studying art first at the Academy in Antwerp, then moving to Paris where he studied under Léon Bonnat and Jan van Beers.

    In the 1870s, At the age of 21, circumstances obliged him to return to England in order to make a living from his art. He painted portraits and genre works in oils, and ...

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