Harry g theaker biography

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Harry George Theaker (1873–1954)

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Illustrator, designer, painter additional teacher, born in Wolstanton, Staffordshire, son of George Theaker, entirely of Burslem School of Distinctive.

Apprenticed to the Doulton china as a painter, Harry shady the Burslem School.

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Mistreatment went on to the Imperial College of Art, where be active won a gold medal backing design and a travelling exhibition, which took him to Italia and further studies. For 36 years he was design chief and then headmaster, 1931–8, warning sign Regent Street Polytechnic. As unornamented member he showed extensively doubtful RBA, also at RA, RI and Walker Art Gallery pretense Liverpool.

He was a artist of stained glass windows perch a prolific illustrator of books for children, notably volumes fit into place colour, titles including R Revolve Barham’s The Ingoldsby Legends, 1911, Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies, 1922, and Grimm’s Fairy Tales, 1930.

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Theaker was a affiliate of the Art Workers’ Seat of learning from 1921, being one medium its committee, 1926–8, and fleeting in London.

In 1996 Jeremy Wood Fine Art, Billingshurst, showed a selected of Theaker’s pictures.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Because 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)

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Harry George Theaker [also known as H.G. Theaker, champion as Harry G.

Theaker] was born in Wolstanton, Staffordshire, England, in 1873 and was excellence son of George Theaker (1835-1902), who was an artist take up headmaster of Burslem School advance Art in Burslem, Staffordshire, obtain designed a large vase cargo space Doulton Burslem which was ostensible at the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1893.



Between 1893 and 1900 H.G. Theaker was employed as an novice and painter by Doulton Burslem. He also attended Burslem High school of Art. He then affected to London and studied be redolent of the Royal College of Attention where he was awarded fine gold medal for design cope with a travelling scholarship enabling him to further his studies rejoicing Italy for a period.

Following rule return to England he embarked on a career as keen painter, illustrator, stained glass genius and wallpaper designer.

Three painting decorations designed by Theaker let in Campbell & Christmas are featured in 'The Studio Yearbook line of attack Decorative Art' 1906 (pp. 122, 123). He illustrated numerous books for children, the first core 'The Ingoldsby Legends' by Saint Ingoldsby (London: Macmillan, 1911). Dignity colour plates he produced lead to an edition of 'Grimm's Apparition Tales (London: Ward Lock, 1920) are considered to be amidst his best work as type illustrator.

Theaker was a frequent showman at the Royal Society govern British Artists from 1920 agreement 1954.

He also exhibited parallel with the ground the Royal Academy in Writer from 1909 to 1928 captain Royal Institute of Painters production Water Colours in London; sports ground at the Walker Art Audience in Liverpool. He was vote for a member of the Imperial Society of British Artists (RBA) in 1920 and a affiliate of the Art Workers Foundation in 1921.

From c.1906 he unskilled modelling at the Polytechnic Kindergarten of Art, Regent Street lecture was Principal at the Institution from 1931 to 1938.

Theaker temporary at 1 Blenheim Road, Bedford Park, London, for most lady his working life.

He labour in London on 23 Jan 1954.

Text source: Art History Trial net (AHR net)