Eric Ravilious

United Kingdom · 1903–1942

Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs, Castle Hedingham and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland. == Early life and education == Eric William Ravilious was born on 22 July 1903 in Churchfield Road, Acton, west London, the son of Emma (née Ford) and Frank Ravilious. When he was young the family moved to Eastbourne in Sussex, where his parents ran an antiques shop.

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