WILLIAM A SILLINCE R.B.A., A.R.W.S., S.G.A., F.S.I.A.
(1906 – 1974)
“Poor Old Jones – still using last year’s model”
Pencil. Signed & titled. Mount opening 12 1/8” x 8 ½” (307 x 215mm) IMAGE
“It’s very sweet of you, Fred, but whatever shall I do
with it?”
Soft pencil heightened with white. 6 ½” x 9” (165 x 228mm)
Signed & titled IMAGE
William
Sillince was a draughtsman and humorist. He was born in Battersea on 16th
November 1906 and educated at Osborne
House School, Romsey. He studied art
at the Polytechnic, Regent
Street under S.
Tresillian and Harry Theaker, at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under
W.P. Robins, at the Regional College of Art, Hull and with A.S. Hartrick O.B.E. and Kenneth Bird
C.B.E. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of British Artists
(to which he was elected Member in 1949), the Royal Watercolour Society and the
Royal Scottish Academy, as well as in Belgium and France. He was Honorary Foreign Member of the Philadelphia
Watercolour Club. From
1928 to 1936 he worked in advertising design, and then turned freelance,
contributing to Punch and other
magazines. From
1949 to 1952 he taught part-time at Brighton College of Art and lectured in
graphic design at Hull Regional College of Art from
1952 to 1971. He illustrated several
books including Wine, Water and Song 1943,
This Merrie English 1954 and Basic British in 1956. Work by William Sillince is in the permanent
collections of the British Museum, the Imperial
War Museum, the Science
Museum and in the provinces.
He died on 10th January 1974.
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