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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 became Headmaster at the Leicester School of Art.
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; Leicestershire Museum,
Maidstone Museum and the Castle Museum in Norwich.
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1866-1896 250 Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour 85 Royal Society of Artists Birmingham 68 Fine Art Society 27 Royal Academy 12 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 8 Manchester City Art Gallery 6 Royal Society of British Artists 4 Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery 4 Dudley Gallery 2 Leicester Gallery
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