12 Facts About Philip Connard

Philip Connard left school with the minimum state education and went into the building trade as a house painter.

Philip Connard attended evening classes in art and won a scholarship in textile design to the Royal College of Art in London.

Philip Connard returned to London where he worked as an illustrator before obtaining a position at the Lambeth School of Art where he taught artists such as Edmund Blampied.

Philip Connard's compositions were said to be 'graceful, airy and highly individual in conception'.

Philip Connard reached the rank of Captain before being invalided out because of severe shell shock.

Philip Connard was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1918 and became a full Academician in 1925.

Philip Connard was Keeper of the Royal Academy school, the principal tutor, from 1945 to 1949.

Philip Connard was a full member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours.

Philip Connard, meanwhile, did not forget his hometown: he was the founding President of The Southport Palette Club, established in 1921 to hold annual exhibitions of the work of local artists, and he retained this position until his death in 1958.

Philip Connard married twice: his first wife, Mary Collyer, with whom he had two daughters, died in 1927; in 1933 he married Georgina Yorke, whom he depicted in many of his later paintings of interiors.

Philip Connard lived for several years in Richmond, Surrey with Scottish artist Anne Finlay.

Philip Connard's work is in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including:.