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Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe (23 August 1871 – 17 October 1953) was a British portrait painter, miniaturist, illustrator and modeller. He was born at Landour, India. In 1881 he was living with his widowed mother in Walcot, Somerset. He studied at the South Kensington, St John's Wood (where he met Byam Shaw, also born in India) and Royal Academy Schools. He was working in Chelsea 1902–03 and at Albury, Surrey, 1914–25.

Selected works

• Pan
• Study for the War Memorial at Albury, Surrey
• The Molson Brothers: Harold and Eric, sons of John Elsdale Molson

References

1. John Christian, Mary Anne Stevens, Barbican Art Gallery, The Last Romantics:The Romantic Tradition in British Art, Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, Lund Humphries Publishers, 1993 ISBN 0-85331-552-3 ISBN 978-0853315520
2. Simon Houfe: The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, Antique Collectors' Club, 1996. ISBN 1-85149-193-7

External links

• Works by or about Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe at the Internet Archive

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