Walter Rossiter PS (16 February 1871 - 1948)[1][2] was an English landscape and garden painter mainly in pastel and watercolour although he also produced some fine examples in oil.
Born in Bath,[3] Walter studied in Paris and Rouen[1][4] and took part in exhibitions at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours[4] The Pastel Society, the Paris Salon and in 1913 the Royal Academy.[1][5]
His father Thomas, professional gardener,[3] might have been influential in his devotion to paint gardens but Walter also lived for a time in Kent,[6] where he probably came in touch with the work of George Samuel Elgood and Ernest Arthur Rowe, both garden painters living in Kent.[7]
In 1918 after the Exhibition at the Pastel Society, Rossiter received a mention by the critic Ezra Pound on The New Age Magazine.[8][9] Walter Rossiter was a member of the Pastel society and Founder of the Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists.[1][6]
- ^ a b c d G. M. Waters, Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. (Edition 1975)
- ^ Artworks by or after Walter Rossiter, Art UK
- ^ a b Census of England and Wales 1871. Class RG10; Piece 2485; Folio 52; Page 23; GSU roll 835196
- ^ a b Johnson/Greutzner, The Dictionary of British Artists 1880 - 1940. (Edition 1980)
- ^ Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-1970, Vol V (EP Publishing LTD, 1979)
- ^ a b C. Wood, Dictionary of Victorian Painters, (2nd edition 1981), Antique Collector's Club.
- ^ C. Wood/P. Hobhouse, Painted Gardens, (Atheneum, 1991)
- ^ H. Zinnes, Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts, (Published 1980)
- ^ The New Age Magazine, Nº 1327, Vol XXII, Nº 16, 14 Feb 1918