TUSHINGHAM, Sidney

1884 - 1968

Sidney Tushingham was born at Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent on 31 March 1884, eldest child of Edward Tushingham (12 February 1857-7 November 1940), a potter's cashier, and his wife Margaret Dinah née Wood (16 June 1864-23 July 1940), who married at Wolstanton, Staffordshire in 1883. Sidney was educated at Hanley Higher Grade Board School (Boys) School, Staffordshire in 1896, Burslem School of Art and progressed to the Royal College of Art where he received his diploma in 1910. He commenced his artistic career as a china painter and in 1901, a 17-year-old potter's artist, living at 31 Lorne Street, Burslem with his parents, 44-year-old Edward and 36-year-old Margaret, with sibling sister Doris Marguerite 4. Sidney married at Fulham, London in 1913, Ella Marie Westlake (21 January 1889-1967). An Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1915 and worked as a vase painter at Royal Doulton in 1922, and as he established his career as a society painter and etcher, specialised in rustic scenes of villages and small-town life also becoming known for his etchings of pre-war Britain, Italy, and Spain. He exhibited at Abbey Gallery; Brook Street Art Gallery; Chenil Galleries; Connell & Sons Gallery; Fine Art Society; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Glasgow Institute of Fine Art; International Society of Sculptors Painters; Walker Art Gallery; the Royal Academy; the Royal Scottish Academy and, at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1923, he exhibited a dry point 'A Boy of Tuscania'. In 1939, an artist & art master, living at 'Norbeck', Bucknell Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire when his wife was living at 14 Marsh Avenue, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire with her invalid parents. Sidney Tushingham died at 18 Ormerod Court, Haywards Heath, Cuckfield, West Sussex on 23 August 1968. The author of 'Etchings & Dry-Points' (1922). His etchings were published in small editions with most of his published etchings being detailed in two catalogues published by James Connell & Sons Ltd, Art Gallery in London and Glasgow.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from Pensarin, Marsh Avenue, Wolstanton, Staffordshire
1905 851 The Rag Market - watercolour
from 74 Sedlescombe Road, West Brompton, Southwest London
1910 1352 The Staircase, Moreton Hall, Cheshire - etching
from The Studio, 168a Bridge Road, Battersea Park, Southwest London
1912 1414 The Seamstress - etching
from 74 Sedlescombe Road, West Brompton, Southwest London
1913 1583 Margaret Kennerley - etching
from 8 King Edward Mansions, Walham Green, Southwest London
1914 1146 A Study in Dry Point
         1209 Penshurst Castle, Kent - etching
1915 254 A Portrait - etching
         258 A Study - etching
1916 318 Rameses II - aquatint
1919 1197 A Study of a Head - etching
         1290 La Bibliotheque, Bruges - etching
1921 862 Market Place, Old Falmouth - etching
1922 1024 Holiday Time - etching
1924 1106 Sunshine and Shadow, San Remo - dry point
         1120 Off to the Oxen Fair, Siena - dry point
from 48 Wildwood Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Northwest London
1926 993 Porta Romana, Siena - dry point
1927 1164 San Leonardo, Venice - dry point
         1173 Amalfi - dry point
from 192 Cromwell Road, Southwest London
1928 1229 Ronda - engraving
1929 1026 A Gateway of Seville - dry point
         1060 Plaza del Corrillo, Salamanca - wash drawing
from 155a Cromwell Road, Southwest London
1930 1075 Puerto del Sol, Toledo - dry point
         1099 Porto Capuana, Naples - dry point
1931 1244 Florence - etching
1932 1025 An Inn of Old Castile - etching
         1041 Cardiff Docks - pencil
1936 1292 San Martin, Salamanca - dry point

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Works by This Artist