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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Portrait of Doris Campbell, half-length, in a white dress and hat with feathers
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Ernest Townsend (1 January 1880 – 22 January 1944) was a portrait artist from Derby in England. He studied at Derby College of Art, Heatherleys in Chelsea and the Royal Academy of London*. Among his notable works were a 1915 portrait of the Right Hon. Winston Churchill when he was First Lord of the Admiralty. This picture now hangs in the National Liberal Club in London.
Townsend was commissioned to create a design for the roofs of the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine factories in Derby (showing 500 of 4413 characters). |
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