William Westley MANNING

William Westley MANNING
1868
1954

A London-based visitor to St Ives over many years, Manning was a landscape painter and printmaker held in high regard. He trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, and was a student at Academie Julian in Paris (1892), where he probably met a number of artists who continued their acquaintance in West Cornwall.

He was certainly in the town in 1896, visiting Albert Julius OLSSON at the St Ives Arts Club. His aquatints in black and white were among his most successful pieces, and his work appears in many public collections. The Aquatints of W W Manning was published by Colnaghi in 1929.

media

Landscape painter, printmaker

works and access

Works include: (publication) The Aquatints of W W Manning (1929)

Access to works: British Museum; Queen Mary's Doll's House, Windsor Castle; Royal Sociey of Painter Etchers and Engravers; Johannesburg; Los Angeles; Moscow; Osaka; Stockholm; Vienna

exhibitions

RA (34); 

STISA 1930s; 

Walker's Gallery 1947

memberships

RBA

 ROI

ARE

STISA 1938-49

references

Buckman (2006) Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p336)

Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of Britsh Artists

Tovey (2003) Creating a Splash

Whybrow (1994) St Ives;

Wood (1995) Victorian Painters