1. Julian Otto Trevelyan was an English artist and poet.
17 Facts About Julian Trevelyan
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Julian Trevelyan's grandfather was the liberal politician Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and his uncle the historian George Macaulay Trevelyan; he is the great-uncle of his namesake, Julian Trevelyan the pianist.
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Julian Trevelyan was educated at Bedales School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature.
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Julian Trevelyan moved to Paris to become an artist, enrolling at Atelier Dix-Sept, Stanley William Hayter's engraving school, where he learned etching.
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Julian Trevelyan worked alongside artists including Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso.
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In 1935, Julian Trevelyan bought Durham Wharf, beside the river Thames in Hammersmith, London.
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Julian Trevelyan became a confirmed Surrealist and exhibited at the International Surrealist Exhibition, held at the New Burlington Galleries in London.
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From 1950 to 1955, Julian Trevelyan taught history of art and etching at the Chelsea School of Art.
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From 1955 to 1963, Julian Trevelyan worked at the Royal College of Art and became Head of the Etching Department.
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Julian Trevelyan was an important leader of modern print techniques and today is regarded as a silent driving force behind the etching revolution of the 1960s.
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Julian Trevelyan was a member of the Royal Engineers from 1940 to 1943, serving in North Africa and Palestine.
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In July 1986, Julian Trevelyan was awarded a senior fellowship at the Royal College of Art and in September 1987 he was appointed a Royal Academician.
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Julian Trevelyan married the potter Ursula Darwin, daughter of Bernard Darwin and his wife Elinor on 30 July 1934.
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Julian Trevelyan was a great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin; their marriage was dissolved in 1950.
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Julian Trevelyan's work has been exhibited at Waddington Galleries, New Grafton Gallery, Bohun Gallery, River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, the Bloomsbury Gallery, Messum's, the New Burlington Galleries in London, and Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, among other places.
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Julian Trevelyan recorded some of his experiences in his book Indigo days, MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1957.
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The exhibition launched the new monograph on Julian Trevelyan, written by his son Philip Trevelyan.