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Article: ERNEST GREENWOOD
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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Artist and administrator whose efforts revived the fortunes of
the Royal Watercolour Society
It was chiefly thanks to Ernest Greenwood that the Royal
Watercolour Society, which was founded in 1804, succeeded in
preserving its independence and has now survived into its third
century. After the Royal Academy the Royal Watercolour Society is
the oldest artistic society in Great Britain, its membership having
included such distinguished artists as John Sell Cotman, David Cox,
Samuel Palmer, Holman Hunt, Edward Burne-Jones and John Singer
Sargent. However by the mid-1970s it had fallen on very hard times.
The Society's galleries in Conduit Street in the West End were
neglected and had been ...