John Minton | |
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Born | Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England | 25 December 1917
Died | 20 January 1957 Chelsea, London, England | (aged 39)
Education | St John's Wood School of Art |
Known for | Painting, illustration |
Francis John Minton (25 December 1917 – 20 January 1957) was an English painter, illustrator, stage designer and teacher. After studying in France, he became a teacher in London, and at the same time maintained a consistently large output of works. In addition to landscapes, portraits and other paintings, some of them on an unusually large scale, he built up a reputation as an illustrator of books.
In the mid-1950s, Minton found himself out of sympathy with the abstract trend that was then becoming fashionable, and felt increasingly sidelined. He suffered psychological problems, self-medicated with alcohol, and in 1957 died by suicide.