Fisher
School No. 393. Dulwich College 1867-1868 President of the Alleyn Club in 1928. College Governor 1933-1939.
After Dulwich Fisher attended the Lambeth School of Art and then the Royal Academy Schools. In 1881 he won the R.A. Gold Medal and Travelling Studentship. He studied in France under Bonaffé and then settled in Italy specialising in Venetian subjects. He was awarded Medals by the Paris Salon, Chicago, Tasmania and other institutions.
His works hang in many permanent collections, including the Tate Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and the National Portrait Gallery. He was elected ARA in 1917 and RA in 1924. In later life a specialist in portraits, his Canon Carver, A H Gilkes and five World War I VCs hang at Dulwich College in the Board Room and Lower Hall.
Forbes
School No.445. Dulwich College 1869-72
Stanhope Forbes received his art training at the Lambeth School of Art, the Royal Academy Schools, where he was awarded a studentship, and in the atelier of Leon Bonnat in Paris. He started exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1878, and continued to do so up until 1945. He was awarded a gold medal at the Berlin International Exhibition of Art in 1891, and the following year was elected an ARA, and RA in 1910.
Stanhope Forbes was, with his wife Elizabeth, one of the founders of the 'Newlyn School' , a group of painters who worked in the Newlyn fishing village in Cornwall. While he made his name with subject pictures and, in later life, topographical studies of Newlyn and his neighbourhood, he also painted a number of portraits, including this self-portrait painted in 1869.
Greenham
School No.10208. At Dulwich College 1922-26
A portrait and landscape painter, Greenham was Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools from 1964. Works can be seen in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain. At Dulwich College there are his portraits of the World War II VCs in the Lower Hall, Ronald Groves in the Board Room and a seascape in the Wodehouse Library.
Hodges
School No.10217. At Dulwich College 1922-25
After Dulwich and Goldsmith's College, C Walter Hodges' professional career began as a stage designer in 1929. He soon moved into illustrating advertisements, magazines (especially the Radio Times) and children's books. Here he led the trend towards a clearer integration of picture and text and displayed the careful and accurate research into costume and period detail that later proved to be one his strongest characteristics.
Amongst his best known illustrations for children's books are those in Elizabeth Goudge's Carnegie winner The Little White Horse (1946), Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) and his own work Shakespeare's Theatre (1964), in which both text and pictures effectively conveyed the theatrical atmosphere of Elizabethan times. He was awarded the Library Association's medal for children's book illustration, The Greenaway Prize, in 1965.
In more recent years he designed the permanent Elizabethan stage at St George's Theatre, a retrospective of theatre designs at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington (1988) and a set of Royal Mail stamps depicting Shakespeare's Globe and the Bankside Theatres (1995).
La Thangue
School No. 444. At Dulwich College 1869-71
At Dulwich La Thangue was a pupil of J.C.L. Sparkes and worked with fellow painters Stanhope Forbes and Frederick Goodall. He enrolled briefly at the Lambeth School of Art before entering the Royal Academy schools. In December 1879 he was awarded a gold medal and a travelling scholarship which enabled him to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. While there he was influenced by the rustic naturalist painters of the Salon and by Whistler.
La Thangue worked on the Brittany coast with Forbes and a wide circle of plein-air painters. He lived for a time in Norfolk, painting picturesque scenes of Fenland life in a characteristic square-brush manner. The subject matter and scale of this work echoed that of the Newlyn School, while the social realism of some of his subjects caused some controversy.
Later, under the influence of French Impressionism, he travelled to Provence and Liguria. Scenes from these travels gradually infiltrated his work as he increasingly regretted the decline of village life in England. A one-man show in 1914 included a wide selection of landscapes from southern Europe, while the last works were dominated by scenes of Mediterranean orange groves and gardens.
La Thangue was elected to the Royal Academy in 1912. He was one of the founders of the New English Art Club, whose members were influenced by the French Impressionists' interest in light and colour. His work may be seen in the Tate Britain.Moore
School No. 2102. At Dulwich College 1879-83
The eldest of four distinguished brothers, including the philosopher G E Moore. From Dulwich he went on to make his reputation as a writer and wood-engraver. He wrote extensively on art, aesthetics and literature whilst his poetry established him, according to Lascelles Abercrombie, as 'the greatest English poet of his generation'. He illustrated many of his works with his own wood-engravings. A friend and correspondent of W B Yeats, he designed the decorated covers for almost all of Yeats's books of poems.
Powell
School No. 9642. At Dulwich College 1920-22
Michael Powell became fascinated by film while still at Dulwich College. After spending a few years in a bank, he started his film career in 1925 at MGM's unit near Nice; here he was able to experiment widely with movie-making before returning to England in 1928. Soon established as a prolific director of mainly low-budget thrillers, he embarked on a successful twenty year partnership with writer Emeric Pressburger.
Together they created some of the most original films of the war years, including 49th Parallel (1942), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946). After the war, and with the advent of colour, they developed the vein of metaphysical melodrama to be seen in Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). A period of crisis in the British film industry led to some compromise collaborations and failed projects, and the partnership was dissolved in 1956.
Powell's later films were made in Spain. His career suffered from the scandal which surrounded the controversial film Peeping Tom (1960); it offended many, but inspired younger British and Amercian film-makers, notably Martin Scorsese. In the last decade of his life, Powell's major films were restored by the National Film Archive, resulting in tributes and retrospectives around the world.
His awards include the following: Hon DLitt, University of East Anglia, 1978; Hon DLitt, University of Kent, 1978; fellow of BAFTA, 1981; fellow of the British Film Institute (BFI), 1983; Hon Doctorate, Royal College of Arts, 1987. A major exhibition of his life and work was mounted at Dulwich College in 2005.
Treleaven
School No. 12408. At Dulwich 1932-36
Dick Treleaven is a wildlife artist and the doyen of British Peregrine experts. His love and knowledge of these exciting birds is legendary having watched them and studied their behaviour for 47 years. He came to Dulwich from Winton House School in Croydon. He served in the second world war first with the Honourable Artillary Company, then with the Fouteenth Army taking part in the Burma Campaign as a Company Commander in the 16th Punjab Regiment. It was this event that he is most proud of and in many ways it shaped his future life. In 1949 he met the celebrated bird painter George Lodge, and for the next three years was a constant visitor to his studio in Camberley, Surrey. In 1952 he joined the British Falconers' Club and trained falcons, which he used as models to paint and soon had a number of commissions for portraits of falconers' birds. In the same year he was elected a life member of the British Ornithologists. The following year he had his first exhibition in Bude, Cornwall. In 1954 he married Margery Seabrook of Boscastle and they moved to Launceston in Cornwall.
In 1960 he showed at the Contemporary Bird Painters Exhibition and was then asked to show at the Sporting and Wild Life Gallery in Hampstead, which later transferred to the Moorland Galleries, Cork Street, London. In 1961 he was elected a founder member of the newly formed Society of Wild Life Artists with Peter Scott and others. He has shown every year since at their Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, Pall Mall, London. In the seventies he met Alexander Mackenzie, Principal of Plymouth Art College, who encouraged him to widen his horizons and paint more landscapes.
"I try to paint birds, often falcons, in their natural habitat and capture the varying moods of North Cornwall - the grandeur of the cliffs and the ruggedness of the boulder strewn moors. The dramatic Cornish skies and the ever changing weather are my greatest challenges."
Richard Treleaven has written and illustrated two books The Private Life of the Peregrine Falcon, (1977) Headland Press, Penzance and in 1998 In Pursuit of the Peregrine, Tiercel Publishing. He is a Vice President of the British Falconers' Club. He exhibits regularly in galleries in Launceston, Tavistock and Plymouth and welcomes visitors to his studio in Launceston by appointment.Voysey
School No. 892. At Dulwich College 1872-1873
At the turn of the nineteenth century C F A Voysey was one of the most influential designers in Britain, with a reputation that spread across Europe and as far afield as the United States.
An early influence on Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Voysey's most prolific period as an architect was from 1890 to 1914 when the 'Voysey style' became recognisable in his country house designs with high pitched roofs, long low walls, leaded windows and rooms no more than eight feet high. Examples of his homes – he designed nearly 120 – are to be found in many parts of the country, as well as town houses in London.
Voysey also designed furnishing products, including stained glass, wallpaper, carpets, fabrics, furniture, silverware and china, his style influenced by William Morris. After the Great War, Voysey again concentrated on designing furnishings and was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy. A large collection of his designs is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.