The family were already aware that their eight year old son was talented at drawing and his father trained him in draughtsmanship and so his father decided to look for some scholarly opening which would allow Fred to further train in art and maybe later architecture as well as attain an all-round education.
It also included a large selection of works by his son Fred.įred Elwell’s schooling began with his attendance at Beverley Grammar School but in 1878 the education establishment had to close temporarily and Fred’s parents had to decide where their son should next be schooled. The exhibition featured a selection of art which the town had loaned from local collectors.
And when he held the position of Chairman of the Library Committee, he organised the first exhibition of paintings in 1910. In 1900 he was a member of the town council and mayor of Beverley. His father, James Edward Elwell, was a well-known and well-established wood carver who played a prominent role in Beverley society. In a way you have to thank my wife for this look at Frederick Elwell as she persuaded me to go with her to Yorkshire for a big three-day cooking event in Harrogate and I managed to slide out of the culinary arena and visit some small local galleries in this beautiful town, where I came across a book on Frederick William Elwell.įrederick William Elwell was born at St Mary’s Cottage in the small Yorkshire market town of Beverley in on June 29th 1870.
My last three blogs looked at the life of the American genre painter, William Sidney Mount and today I start a multiple-part blog on a home-grown nineteenth century English painter Frederick William Elwell, who many of you, like me, may have up to now, been unheard of. Nowadays due to other commitments and my being sucked into the life of artists the blogs are longer and often in multiple parts. When I look back on the four and half years of doing this blog I see my early entries were quite short but appeared nearly three or four times a week.
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