Wilmot Pilsbury

Wilmot Pilsbury (21 April 1840 – 1908) was an English watercolourist and art teacher.^[1]

Life

Pilsbury was born in Cannock Chase, and studied at Birmingham School of Art under James William Walker from 1853 to 1859. He then moved on to train as an art master at a training school in South Kensington. Following his qualification, he joined the West London School of Art, where he became the deputy headmaster until leaving in 1870. In 1870 he opened the Leicester School of Art, where he served as headmaster until 1881.^[2] His pupils included Charles James Adams^[3] and George Samuel Elgood.^[4]

He painted landscapes in the style of Helen Allingham.^[1]

^ ^a ^b H. L. Mallalieu (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 271. ISBN 1-85149-025-6.
^ Huish, Marcus B. (1904). British water-colour art in the first year of the reign of King Edward the Seventh and during the century covered by the life of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours. Illustrated by the collection of drawings dedicated by that Society to Their Majesties the King and Queen at their coronation. London: The Fine Art Society. pp. 164-166. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
^ H. L. Mallalieu (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 12. ISBN 1-85149-025-6.
^ Baskervyle-Glegg, Diana. "Elgood, George Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62311. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)