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JOHN BERNARD PARTRIDGE (1861– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 876 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:BERNARD See also:PARTRIDGE (1861– )  , See also:British artist, was See also:born in See also:London, son of See also:Professor See also:Richard See also:Partridge, F.R.S., See also:president of the Royal See also:College of Surgeons, and See also:nephew of See also:John Partridge (1790-1872), portrait-painter extraordinary to See also:Queen See also:Victoria . He was educated at Stonyhurst College, and after matriculating at London University entered the See also:office of Dunn & See also:Hansom, architects . He then joined for a couple of years a See also:firm of stained-See also:glass designers (Lavers, Barraud & Westlake), learning drapery and See also:ornament; and then studied and executed See also:church ornament under See also:Philip Westlake, 1880-1884 . He began See also:illustration for the See also:press and practised See also:water-See also:colour See also:painting, but his See also:chief success was derived from See also:book illustration . In 1892 he joined the See also:staff of See also:Punch . He was elected a member of the Royal See also:Institute of Painters in Water-See also:colours and of the See also:Pastel Society .

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