Edward Wadsworth

[1889-1949]

Landscape, marine and portrait painter
and engraver in wood and copper

A student at the Slade School from 1910 to 1912, Wadsworth subsequently became a member of several of the leading independent artists' groups of the day, served as an intelligence officer with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve from 1914, and was later employed on dazzle camouflage at English home ports. After the war his commissioned work covered a wide range - from large-scale panels in the liner Queen Mary to the decorative initial letters A-W and Y which were used in SP, a set of which he had originally done for John Rodker, from whom Lawrence obtained them.

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