Exmoor (1935) £100
Signed watercolour on mould made tracing paper laid on board (all colours as original). Dated verso 10th September 1935 and titled ‘Exmoor’. Image measures 25cm
Sir Robert Vere Darwin CBE RA RSA (1910 – 1974), was a British artist, President of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, and Rector of the Royal College of Art. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. Darwin was educated at Eton College and Slade School of Fine Art, after which he taught at Eton for five years before designing camouflage in the Ministry of Home Security during the Second World War. After serving as Professor of Fine Art at the University of Durham for two years, he joined the Royal College of Art in 1948, first as principal, then as Rector and Vice-Provost when the college gained university status in 1967. He left this position in 1971 when he became president of the Royal West of England Academy. Throughout his career he also frequently exhibited as well as selling his artwork. Darwin was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1954 and was knighted in 1964. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1972.
Signed watercolour on mould made tracing paper laid on board (all colours as original). Dated verso 10th September 1935 and titled ‘Exmoor’. Image measures 25cm