Background
Frederick Elwell was born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, the son of wood carver James Edward Elwell.
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Education
He studied at the Lincoln School of Art, then the Royal Academy in Antwerp and the Académie Julien in Paris.
Career
He exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy, where he became a member in 1938, and painted a portrait of King George V in 1932. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1894 and at the Royal Academy in 1895. Much of his work, practised in a vigorous and realistic style, expressed his interest in recording Yorkshire life.
The Times, in its review of the Royal Academy exhibition of 1936, favourably described his painting, The Lying-in-State, Westminster Hall (1936), as successfully conveying the emotions felt by those who had been present at the lying-in-state of the late King George V. Some 22 years later, the same newspaper described his work as ‘persuasive’ rather than ‘arresting’, and him as ‘pre-eminently a painter of domesticity’.
Membership
He was elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1931, and in 1938, he was elected as a member of the Royal Academy. He was also a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
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1958 (aged 88)