Glyn Philpot (1884-1937), Painter and sculptor

Sitter associated with 7 portraits
Artist associated with 3 portraits
Painter of portraits and subject pictures; trained in London and Paris and quickly established himself as a successful society portraitist in the years before the First World War; elected A.R.A., 1915 and full R.A., 1923. In 1931-2, Philpot made the courageous step of embracing modernist influences in his art, producing a body of work marked by a new simplicity of form and technique.