Background
Worrall was born in London in 1898.
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Ernest Worrall
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Born in London, he served in World War I and graduated from the Royal College of Art before moving to Grimsby. In 1931 he graduated from the Royal College of Artist
Career
He is remembered for a series of paintings depicting the impact of World World War II on the town. His work was exhibited in the Royal Academy fourteen times, and has more recently been displayed in the National Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield in response to a successful exhibition in a centre in Cleethorpes. He served as a machine gunner during World War I. Having been captured by German forces in 1917, he escaped in the following year prior to the end of the war.
In 1943 he was commissioned by Grimsby Borough Council to record the impact of the conflict on the town in paintings.
During 1943 and 1944 he created a series of over 20 works depicting a range of scenes in Grimsby. Worrall continued to teach at Wintringham after the war, retiring in the 1960s.
He died in 1972. Worrall"s work was exhibited at the Royal Academy on 14 occasions during his life.
Of the 22 works he painted during World World War II, 18 are now owned by the local council and four by the Imperial War Museum. In October 2008 a free exhibition of Worrall"s wartime paintings, titled Grimsby at War: The Works of Ernest Worrall, was opened at the Cleethorpes Discovery Centre, with an intended closing date of 30 November.
lieutenant became the most popular exhibition ever to be displayed at the centre, attracting over 2,500 visitors, and was extended to run until 4 January 2009. Later in 2009 Worrall"s son Richard, who saw the pictures for the first time at the Cleethorpes exhibition, helped to arrange another display of the paintings, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas in Staffordshire.
Membership
During World World War II Worrall was a member of the Home Guard.
