Biography
English painter, born in Bradford, Yorkshire, on 14 March 1903. He studied painting at the Bradford School of Art from 1920–24 before moving to London and continuing his training at the Slade School of Art until 1926.

His paintings tend to feature landscapes, harbour views and industrial marine scenes. In 1934 he settled in the New Forest, later living in Southampton. During the Second World War, his inclination towards maritime subject matter prompted his appointment as official war artist to the Admiralty. He painted numerous records of the war at sea, such as ‘Withdrawal from Dunkirk, June 1940’ and ‘HMS Revenge Leaving Portsmouth After a Raid’, in which the foreground of the image is taken up by the desolation of ruined, bombed housing. Another example is the ‘Midget Submarine Attack on the Tirpitz’, with the ambitious and ingenious device of representing the submarine as if seen through the glass sides of a fish tank. All three of these are in the National Maritime Museum, London.

From 1949 he taught at the Camberwell School of Art. He was elected Royal Academician in 1953 and was awarded an OBE in 1984.