1. Mary Adshead was an English painter, muralist, illustrator and designer.
10 Facts About Mary Adshead
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Mary Adshead attended Putney High School from 1916 to 1919 and then spent six months in Paris.
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Mary Adshead's mandate was to decorate his dining-room with Newmarket racing scenes and portraits of his friends, such as Arnold Bennett, Lady Louise Mountbatten, and Winston Churchill, on their way to the racecourse.
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In 1934 Mary Adshead was commissioned to paint murals for the auditorium, designed by her father to replace one lost to fire, on Victoria Pier at Colwyn Bay.
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Mary Adshead painted a mural for the British Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937.
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Mary Adshead designed the Universal Postal Union pictorial issue of stamps for the GPO in 1949, followed by designs for 1951 Festival of Britain stamps, and she designed the frame around the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the 8d, 9d, 10d and 11d Wilding series definitive stamps.
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In 1929 Mary Adshead married Stephen Bone, the son of the artist Sir Muirhead Bone.
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Mary Adshead studied techniques of mosaic decoration in Ravenna and Sicily and had a number of exhibitions of her work both as a solo artist and alongside the works left by Stephen Bone.
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Mary Adshead died on 3 September 1995 in London, at the age of 91.
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Mary Adshead's paintings are in many public gallery collections including The Tate, the Graves Art Gallery Sheffield, the Imperial War Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery, the London Transport Museum and The University Art Gallery Liverpool.