- Noel Leaver
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Noel Harry Leaver (23 March 1889 – 24 July 1951) was an English painter and teacher.
Early life
Leaver was born at the School House in Austwick, North Yorkshire where his father Peter was a teacher.[1] Soon after the family returned to Worsthorne near Burnley in Lancashire. He was educated at St. James School and the Burnley School of Art. He won a National Scholarship to the Royal College of Art at age 16, receiving his full associateship at 21.
Work
Primarily a watercolourist, he was known for hot blue skies, often in contrast with shadowed buildings. He travelled widely across Europe and North Africa.[2]
He also taught at the Halifax School of Art (1912–15) and then the Burnley School of Art until the mid 1930’s.
References
- ^ artist page at haynesfineart.com Accessed 2010
- ^ antiquesnews.co.uk Accessed 2010
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