An Arts & Craft Epicentre

At the time of the construction of this terrace it was still relatively on the edge of town, overlooking the playing fields of St Paul’s School. The site was also close to the marshy Thameside village of Hammersmith and close to the part of the Fulham distinguished by the residency of Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) in [...]

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More Artists that made their mark from here

Nearly all the occupants of St. Paul’s Studios, up until the First World War at least, are identifiably professional artists. Here some others that I came across living and working in the Studios: William Logsdail (1859-1944) genre painter particularly of London scenes, Edward Tennyson-Reed (1860-1933), Punch cartoonist from 1893, Charles Sims R.A. (1873-1928) painter and [...]

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More on Alfred Wolmark

The following is my first guest column, written by our friend Peter Risdon, an expert and an ardent fan of Alfred Wolmark. Alfred Wolmark came to England as a child in the 1880s, when his parents fled Poland. He early developed skill at drawing and after studying at the Royal Academy School he became a [...]

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William Barribal also lived here

Here is another artist working from St Paul’s Studios (I do not know which one yet). Apprenticed to a lithographic draughtsman he studied in the evenings, later for a year at the Acadamie Julien in Paris (his allowance was one Pound a week).  He worked also briefly in Belfast. Barribal created such memorable images as [...]

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