Gutman D.W.E.
Little known British painter, however he is listed in the fine art lexicons and known to the auction houses across Europe. He served in the British army in Salonika in 1917 where he painted the hospital ship, “Lanfranc” sailing off Salonika with Mount Olympus is in the background. Lanfranc had accommodation for 403 wounded. It […]
Gordon Jan
He was born at Finchampstead as Godfrey Jervis Gordon, and educated at Marlborough College and Truro School of Mines. He was a painter, lithographer, and etcher, and exhibited his work in Britain, Europe, and America. But he was also an art critic, who wrote for The New Witness, The Observer and Athenaeum, and Land and […]
Goodman Reginald John
Born in St Albans in Hertforshire in the UK in 1870, John Reginald Goodman, was always known as Reginald. He married another prominent artist Kathleen Dix in 1899, a well known miniature portrait painter and was exhibited in the RA. John Goodman studied under the eminent watercolor artist Wilfred Ball before embarking on an overseas […]
Durham Edith Mary
Born in London 1863, Marry Edith Durham was one of the eight children of a Victorian family of a respected surgeon. She studied art at the Royal Academy of Arts and Bedford College in London. After her studies, she became accomplished illustrator and watercolorist exhibiting widely and working on illustrations for the Cambridge Natural History […]
Dugdale Cantrell Thomas
British portrait and subject painter, decorator and designer for textiles. Born 2 June 1880 at Blackburn, died in London 13 November 1952. Studied at the Manchester School of Art, the Royal College of Art., the City and Guilds School, Kennington, and at the Académie Julian and Atelier Colarossi in Paris. Exhibited at the Royal Academy […]
Chowne Gerard
Born in India 1875, died in Salonika, Macedonia in 1917. Studied art at the Slade School 1893-9 and also in Paris and Rome. Teacher of painting at Liverpool University 1905-8, founder of Sandon Studios Liverpool. Chowne visited Macedonia during the Great War, where he was drafted as Captain in the 9th East Lancs Regiment. He […]
Calvert Charles
British diplomat, photographer and illustrator. Served as British consul in Bitola (Monastir) from 1860 until the closure of the British consulate in 1872. Before Macedonia, he served as British diplomat in Damascus and Beirut in 1850, later moved in Thessaloniki in 1856 and finally to be settled in Bitola. Charles Clavert produced a rare album […]
Booth John
English journalist and illustrator and special correspondent to the newspaper “Graphic” in Macedonia in 1904. The book about his stay in Macedonia called “Troubles in the Balkans” with many pencil and ink drawings from various parts of Macedonia was published by Hurst and Blackett, London in 1905.
Bayne Roskell Rickard
Rickard Bayne was a famous British architect, born in Warwickshire, England on 7 July 1837, died in Victoria (B.C. Canada) on 4 December 1901. Studied architecture at the University College in London, South Kensington School of Design in London where he god several distinguished prizes (like Queen’s prize in 1860). Rickard Bayne visited the Thessaloniki […]
