
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA
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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.