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A Pacifist Painter from the Great War: CLAUGHTON PELLEW Claughton Pellew was a brilliant landscape artist, primarily of the Norfolk countryside (also of Bavaria), working both in wood engraving and paint.

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The book comprises a full biography by James Methuen-Campbell, a revised checklist of prints (based on Anne Stevens' pioneering work), all but two of Pellew's 70 wood engravings and most of his etchings, and many paintings by both Claughton and his wife Kechie (at times indistinguishable).


Claughton Pellew, The Descent - National Galleries of Scotland

The artist was born in Redruth, Cornwall, the son of a mining engineer who emigrated to western Canada with his family soon after he was born. The whole family returned in , and Claughton attended the Slade from , making there a life-long friend in the artist Paul Nash.

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  • Friend of the Nashs at the Slade, a Catholic conscientious objector in WW1. The artist's family has established a site on Claughton Pellew: see A catalogue raisonné of Pellew's pictures is in preparation (expected publication ).

    • Life story: Claughton Pellew-Harvey | Lives of the First ...

    Title: Claughton Pellew: Canada & the Great War. Description: CLAUGHTON PELLEW, an artist working mainly in the aftermath of the Great War, during which he was imprisoned as a pacifist. This is his family's story about what made him the vulnerable and talented man he became.
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    • Lives of the First World War

    Claughton Pellew ( - ) son of a mining engineer and an artist mother, was born in Cornwall, but soon after his birth the family moved to Canada. On their return from Canada he was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and then in started at The Slade.
  • Discover and explore a diverse collection of artworks from the National Galleries of Scotland, featuring both historical and contemporary pieces.
    • Claughton Pellew was a brilliant landscape artist, primarily of the Norfolk countryside (also of Bavaria), working both in wood engraving and paint. A pacifist during the Great War and in the 1920s his peaceful scenes of country life in both England and Germany helped eclipse the memories of bloody conflict.
  • One of Paul Nash's friends at the Slade School of Art was Claughton Pellew-Harvey who "had a deep love for the country, particularly for certain.
    • Pellew began wood engraving in 1923, exhibiting with the newly founded Society of Wood Engravers, and his subjects, based on the revival begun by William Morris and inspired by Thomas Bewick, were country images.

    Claughton Pellew - Gallery on the Usk

      Claughton Pellew wanted – and in many senses found in the ways in which he lived - a return to the clearer certainties of pre-war Britain, a world before the machine had become omnipresent and the city’s invasive sprawl had covered so much of the countryside.

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      • ‘to watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set’ The art of ...

    Nov. 25, Fleece Press.- Pellew (Claughton) Five Wood Engravings Printed from the Original Blocks, one of sets, Wakefield, & 2 others from the press (3).


  • Collections Online - British Museum Source information. ID: 8711342 Title: "CLAUGHTON PELLEW 1890-1966 - An artist of the 1920s, working in the aftermath of the Great War" Description: The background, including the subject's pacifism during WW1, his family and other influences together with examples of his work as an artist.
  • Claughton Pellew | Biography - MutualArt The man in question was Claughton Pellew. He was born in Cornwall but spent the early years of his life in Canada, where his father was a mining engineer. After returning to England for his secondary education, the family lived in London, but Claughton would not join his father's business as a mining consultant; instead he studied at the Slade.
  • The life and work of Claughton Pellew and Kechie Tennent Claughton Pellew (b. Redruth, Cornwall, UK 1890 - d. Norfolk, UK 1966), son of a mining engineer, William Pellew-Harvey, and an artist mother, Elizabeth Hichens, spent his early childhood in Canada and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (1907-11). Among his contemporaries there were Stanley Spencer, Ben Nicholson and Paul Nash. A visit to Italy after finishing college greatly influenced.