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Leicester
Chronicler
Tempus omnia revelat
Time reveals all
Listening
to the historic heartbeat of the City of Leicester and
its environs in the English East Midlands
A reflection of past and present thoughts and aspirations
Wilmot Pilsbury
1840-1908
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Wilmot Pilsbury was born in Dorking, Surrey and studied at the South Kensington Schools and at the Birmingham School of Art.
He was the first Headmaster of the Leicester School of Art (1870-1880).
He specialised in cottages and churches, landscapes and rural scenes including gardens. He was made an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1881, and elected to the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1890, becoming a full member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1898.
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He lived variously in Leicester 1880; Bossington, Near Minehead, Somerset 1890; Taunton 1891; Shere, Near Guildford, Surrey 1892; Dorking, Surrey 1898.
The composition, quality and attention to detail have made his works extremely popular, and today they are keenly collected and have risen in value quite dramatically. He died in 1908 and a Memorial Exhibition was held at the Fine Art Society, London, the same year.
Examples
of his works may be seen at the Brighton Art Gallery of Brighton and Hove
Museums (two works - The Cool Retreat and Rustic Scene, both dated 1876); Leicestershire
Museums,
Maidstone Museum and the Castle Museum in Norwich.
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An Autumn Idyll
A Village Pond with ducks in the foreground, a ewe and her lambs nearby
with
thatched cottages beyond
Signed and dated 1885, pencil and watercolour heightened with white
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