Background
He was born in Hampstead, the son of an art dealer, educated at Street Joseph"s Roman Catholic school in Highgate and trained at the Slade School of Art in London under Henry Tonks, Wilson Steer and Sir Walter Russell.
He was born in Hampstead, the son of an art dealer, educated at Street Joseph"s Roman Catholic school in Highgate and trained at the Slade School of Art in London under Henry Tonks, Wilson Steer and Sir Walter Russell.
Slade School of Fine Artist
He was the cousin of John Stanton Ward. During the war he worked on ambulance maintenance with the Civil Defence Service in Richmond. His work found particular favour in the commercial sector with publishers such as Solomon and Whitehead, Frost and Reed and West.N Sharpe of Bradford and reproductions of his work were often found on jigsaw puzzles, greetings cards and commercial prints.
He painted a symbolic figure composition for the Free French during World World War II and the Borough of Twickenham commissioned him to design a naval war memorial.
He occasionally produced original works under the pseudonym Bertram Linder.
A member of the New Society of Artists, he was elected an associate of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1926 and exhibited at the Royal Society and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.