Francis (John). Hastings

Painted on a sheet of stout wove paper to the edges and signed with initials bottom right.Exhibited in the Retrospective exhibition at the New Grafton Gallery in 1981. cat. no.35.John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings,16th. Earl of Huntingdon known as Viscount Hastings until 1939 was a British artist, writer and Labour politician. He studied under the Mexican mural painter Diego Rivera and at the Slade School of Art. He had exhibitions in notably London,Paris,Chicago and San francisco. He was Professor at the Camberwell College of Art and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Between 1951 and 1958 he was Chairman of the Committee of the Society of Mural Painters.He executed murals for various buildings in England and abroad. More examples by this artist in stock.