Background
DEXTER, Walter was born on June 12, 1876 in Wellingboro’. Son of Walter S. Dexter and Emily, daughter of John Allday.
DEXTER, Walter was born on June 12, 1876 in Wellingboro’. Son of Walter S. Dexter and Emily, daughter of John Allday.
Studied at Croad’s School, Lynn. Birmingham Municipal School of Art. Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham.
On leaving school, and under influence of Pre-Raphaelites, painted The Workshop, bought by the City of Norwich for the Corporation Art Gallery. After studying in Holland and Belgium returned to Lynn, taking great interest in local reform movements. Studio in Kensington, 1904.
Has painted portraits, landscape and figure subjects, interiors and still life, and book illustrations. Now making series of drawings of Old Lynn and Fenland Towns. Drawings for Nelson’s Homeland, 1905.
Paintings for Literary and Artistic Associations of East Anglia, 1906. Drawings lor From Pakeolith to Motor Car. Paintings for A Wanderer in Paris, by E. V. Lucas, 1908. Artist, painter, and illustrator.
Royal Society of British Artists 1905. Club: Norwich Art Circle.
