Walter Westbrook (artist)

Walter Edward Westbrook (3 August 1921 – 15 January 2015) was a South African artist who lived latterly in Kent, England. He was well known particularly for his watercolour landscapes inspired by the arid plains of the Northern Cape and Namibia, and later by the countryside of Kent and the English Channel. Westbrook was born in Pretoria in 1921 and lived in Kimberley for several decades before emigrating to England in the late 1990s.[1][2][3] He died in Kent in 2015, aged 93.[4][5]

  1. ^ Walter Edward Westbrook: Biography and Profile – accessed on 28 May 2013
  2. ^ Lucy Alexander & Evelyn Cohen 150 South African Paintings Past and Present, Struikhof Publishers ISBN 0 947458 25 5
  3. ^ Esme Berman, Art & Artists of South Africa, AA Balkema Publishers ISBN 0 86961 144 5
  4. ^ Schoonraad, Murray (1989). Companion to South African Cartoonists. Ad. Donker. p. 388. ISBN 0868521140.
  5. ^ Obituary – Walter Westbrook