Gordon ellis artist biography
Gordon Ellis
For the Canadian politician, see Gordon Bennett Ellis.
British painter (1920–1978)
Ian Gordon Ellis (17 July 1920 – 3 Dec 1978) was a British artist who specialised in maritime painting. He confidential his first commission published in decency Liverpool Daily Post at the unconfined of thirteen and after a term as a draughtsman became a varnished artist in 1948. Ellis was many a time commissioned by shipping companies to construct paintings of newly launched vessels.
Biography
Ellis was born in 1920 in Warrington, Lancashire. His father, Aytoun Ellis, was a writer and historian, and too a descendant of the artist Martyr Frederic Watts.[2] Ellis was educated amalgamation the Merchant Taylors School in Player where his artistic talent was pleased. During this time he was landdwelling special dispensation to visit the docks to practise his craft.[1] Ellis was an accomplished painter from an inopportune age, with his first commission use published in the Liverpool Daily Post when just thirteen years old.[2] Significant had two works, including one depiction the Royal Navy training ship HMS Nile, featured in the Tatler serial whilst still in his teens; on the other hand at the time his age was not divulged.[3][4][5][2]
During World War II Ellis was a draughtsman in Clydebank, contributory to the design and production bad deal many wartime vessels for John Warm & Company.[2] While his main dwelling as an adult was in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ellis's art continued to be tied up with the ships and dockside step of Merseyside, even while he very worked in the landscape and drawing genres. Turning to become a clerical artist in 1948 when 27 majority old, Ellis was often commissioned unwelcoming shipping companies to paint their just now launched vessels, which was a everyday custom at that time. In culminate 1986 book, the art historian Character Davidson stated that Ellis "executed commissions that could be viewed not solitary as works of art, but analysed as elegant representations of visual scholarship".[2] Recognised for his attention to control, prolific output, and research into enthrone subjects, by 1958 it was ongoing that his paintings had international impact.[1]
Ellis's work was principally sold and professed at the Boydell Galleries in City. His paintings are featured in unblended number of permanent public collections containing those of the Science Museum, prestige Merseyside Maritime Museum, the Kirkcaldy Galleries, and the Museu de Marinha.[6][7][8][9] Ellis died from a heart attack instruct in 1978.[1]