Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA

Signed l.r.: CF Tunnicliffe, watercolour over pencil with touches of white on cream paper

41 x 55 cm.; 16 1/8 x 21 5/8 inches

Provenance
The Tryon Gallery;

Private collection, UK, sold at

Christies South Kensington, London, 3 November 2010, lot 58

The artist was a countryman who was brought up Cheshire. After studying at the Macclesfield School of Art he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London, gaining his teaching diploma and a further scholarship to study in the RCA's new Etching and Engraving School.

He worked as a commercial artist and taught art at Manchester Grammar School.

Tunnicliffe was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and in 1974 a ‘Members Exhibition’ was held there of his work.

He and his wife Winifred moved from Cheshire to Angelsey in 1947 and lived at Shorelands in Malltraeth until his death.