Clifford Webb RBA, RE
Clifford Webb RBA, RE
1895 - 1972
Artist, illustrator and author; also a teacher
Clifford Webb initially apprenticed as a lithographer but left to serve in the British Army during the First World War. Between 1919 and 1922 Webb studied at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky, and from 1923 to 1926 he was a part-time lecturer at Birmingham School of Art and St Martin’s School of Art, London. In the 1920s Webb associated himself with the Artist’s Craftsman’s Group and was a founder-member of the Society of Wood Engravings. Between 1937 and 1954 he illustrated eight books for the Golden Cockerel Press. He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1936 and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1948.
(Benjamin Angwin – October 2014)
Clifford Webb initially apprenticed as a lithographer but left to serve in the British Army during the First World War. Between 1919 and 1922 Webb studied at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky, and from 1923 to 1926 he was a part-time lecturer at Birmingham School of Art and St Martin’s School of Art, London. In the 1920s Webb associated himself with the Artist’s Craftsman’s Group and was a founder-member of the Society of Wood Engravings. Between 1937 and 1954 he illustrated eight books for the Golden Cockerel Press. He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1936 and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1948.
(Benjamin Angwin – October 2014)