Background
Streatfeild was born in Clapham, where his father was a bank clerk.
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Philip Streatfeild
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Education
He studied at art college.
Career
A successful artist, he had a studio off the Kings Road in London. lieutenant has been suggested he received training under Henry Scott Tuke. In 1914, Streatfeild became a mentor to the then-14-year-old actor and later famed author Noël Coward.
Coward"s social ascendancy began thanks to Streatfeild who, before his death, asked wealthy socialite Mrs Astley Cooper to take Coward under her wing.
Streatfeild enlisted in the army in November 1914 but contracted tuberculosis and was invalided out in the spring of 1915. Streatfeild died from tuberculosis in June 1915 at age 35.
