Joseph Southall | |
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 Self-Portrait (1925), Buon Fresco panel in wooden case | |
| Born | 23 August 1861 |
| Died | 6 November 1944 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | Birmingham School of Art |
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Joseph Edward Southall RWS NEAC RBSA (23 August 1861 – 6 November 1944) was an English painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.
A leading figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century revival of painting in tempera, Southall was the leader of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen—one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link between the later Pre-Raphaelites and the turn of the century Slade Symbolists.[1]
A lifelong Quaker, Southall was an active socialist and pacifist, initially as a radical member of the Liberal Party and later of the Independent Labour Party.
Southall was elected an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) in 1898 and Member in 1902. He became President of the Society in 1939 and stayed in this post until his death in 1944.
- ^ Gere, Charlotte (April 2005). "Gleams of gold: the Fortunoff collection of paintings by Joseph Southall". Apollo. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 7 October 2007.
The section devoted to the Birmingham Group was pivotal to the 'Last Romantics' show at the Barbican in 1989, between second phase Pre-Raphaelites such as Burne-Jones and the ambiguous modernity of Slade School Symbolists such as Augustus John and Stanley Spencer.