George Frederick Arthur Belcher (19 September 1875 – 3 October 1947) was an English

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

etcher Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...

and painter of genre, sporting subjects and still life. He was born in

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on 19 September 1875 and studied at

Bideford Art School Bideford Art School was an art school in Bideford in Devon from 1896 until the 1970s. Located on The Quay, today the building is used as Bideford Arts Centre and has been a Grade II listed building on the Register of Historic England since 2001.

and the Gloucester School of Art. He drew for the ''Punch'' Almanac from 1906 and for ''

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'' itself regularly from 1911; also for the ''

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'' and '' Vanity Fair''. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the

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. Belcher exhibited at the

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from 1909. He was made an Associate (A.R.A.) in 1931, and a

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(R.A.) 1946. His first one-man show was at the

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in 1909. He died at

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on 3 October 1947. A retrospective exhibition was held at

Cranleigh Cranleigh is a village and civil parish, about southeast of Guildford in Surrey, England. It lies on a minor road east of the A281, which links Guildford with Horsham. It is in the north-west corner of the Weald, a large remnant forest, the ma ...

Hall in 1954.

Literature

* Kenneth Guichard, British Etchers 1850–1940, Robin Garton, London 1977. * An exhibition of Comic Drawings by George Belcher R.A. 1875–1947, Langton Gallery, 1986.

References

External links

*
George Belcher on ArtnetGeorge Belcher - short biography
(British Council)

(jonathanhewitt.co.uk)

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