"Reeve's Greyhound Artist's Colours: Light Red" (2 Tubes)
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Albert Edward Templar, 1993.
Object number1993.039.195
Label TextReeves and Sons was founded in 1766 and through a series of acquisitions, is now known as Reeves. The company produces a wide variety of art supplies including oil, watercolour, and acrylic paints, brushes, and pastels. These boxes of Reeves paints came from the estate of Albert Edward Templar (1897-1992).
Templar started his art career in 1913, at the age of sixteen. After high school, Templar began an apprenticeship at London printing and lithography company Lawson & Jones, before completing training at Knowles & Company lithography firm. During this time, Templar was also attending classes at the newly opened Technical and Commercial School (now H. B. Beal Secondary), taking art lessons from instructor David Wilke. Templar would eventually teach commercial design at the school.
Following the First World War, Templar went to study at the prestigious National Academy of Design in New York City, where he received academic training in fine art. Upon graduating, Templar permanently returned to London, pursuing a life-long art career, best known for the paintings he produced in his home studio on Talbot Street.
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