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Last Name Wilson
Given Name Eli Marsden
alt. Names E. M. W. ;
Marriage Hilda Mary Pemberton (1871-1957) in 1905, daughter of Frederick Blake Pemberton, civil engineer; 1957 his pupil, Mary Cockburn, companion 1957-65
Children
Year born 1877 in Ossett, Yorkshire
Year died 1965
Place of death
Father's occupation Alfred Wilson, a foreman beamer
Relatives Emma Marsden; five sisters
Education studied art at Wakefield College of Art & Royal College of Art in London (as pupil of Sir Frank Short)
Country of Activity England, UK
Worked for late-1920s painted freeze (4 panels) showing prehistoric England atGeological section of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington
Patronage 17 pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy, London; Princess Marie Louise (miniature etchings for Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor)
Collaborators
Techniques geological, paleontological & zoological painting
Sample(s) http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/results.asp?image=004324&itemw=4&itemf=0002&itemstep=1&itemx=1 & ....?image=004322 ;
Archival sources further information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Marsden_Wilson ;
Published sources Debus: 27 ;
other In London he lived in Chelsea, then Acton; as a Quaker, vegetarian & pacifist,[1] he was a conscientious objector in World War I imprisoned in 1917 for 2 years.
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