Diskussion:Partington

John Herbert Evelyn Partington

"John Herbert Evelyn Partington (1843–1899) started painting at thirteen. At the age of fifteen he received tuition from a journeyman house painter. He left England for America, but couldn't settle and returned. He was then employed as a mechanical draftsmen for a Professor Scott Burn. He attended the Manchester School of Art under the head, Mr. Muckley 1868-1870 who helped him to get a position at Messrs Shaw of St. Chad's at Saddleworth as a designer of cartoons and painter of figures in stained glass. He joined the Manchester Academy and within a month was made an Associate. A year later at the age of twenty-eight he received full membership. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1872, and was a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society producing various articles and drawings. || He established an art school in Stockport which was run on the same lines as the Academie Julian, Paris where masters and students worked together with a live model."

WP Englisch Manchester School of Painters --Delabarquera (Diskussion) 12:11, 8. Dez. 2023 (CET)