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William Roberts

William P. Roberts (1895 - 1980) was active/lived in England.  William Roberts is known for Military theme, figur, genre painting, teaching.

William Roberts (5 June 1895 - 20 January 1980) was an English painter and war artist.  Son of a carpenter, Roberts was born in Hackney, London.  In 1909 he took up an apprenticeship with the advertising firm of Sir Joseph Causton Ltd, intending to become a poster designer, and he attended evening classes at St Martin's School of Art in London.

He won a London County Council scholarship to the Slade School of Art* in 1910. His contemporaries included a number of brilliant young students, among them Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, Christopher Nevinson, Stanley Spencer and David Bomberg.

Roberts was intrigued by Post-impressionism* and Cubism*, an interest fuelled by his travels in France and Italy after leaving the Slade in 1913.  Later in 1913 he joined Roger Fry's Omega Workshops for three mornings a week, and the ten shillings a time that Omega paid enabled him to create challenging Cubist-style paintings such as The Return of Ulysses (   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 17232 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for William Roberts available:    Stanley Spencer,  Walter Richard Sickert,  Frank Owen Dobson,  Edward Burra,  John Leith Craxton,  David Bomberg,  Paul Nash,  Laurence Stephen Lowry,  John (Francis John) Minton,  Elisabeth (Dame Elisabeth) Frink,  Christopher Nevinson,  Keith Vaughan,  Wilhelmina (Willie) Barns-Graham,  Wyndham Lewis,  Henry Taylor Lamb,  Michael Ayrton,  Mark Gertler,  Christopher (Kit) Wood,  Peter Lanyon,  William (Sir William) Nicholson,  John Northcote Nash,  John Egerton Christmas Piper,  Tristram Paul Hillier,  Eliot Hodgkin