William Westley Manning Prints

1868-1954

Landscape painter, etcher and aquatinter; born in Marylebone, London; studied initially at the Slade School of Fine Art, at the Académie Julian, Paris in 1892, and then at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Malcolm Osborne (q.v.); was a prolific exhibitor including: Baillie Gallery, Chenil Gallery, Fine Art Society, Goupil Gallery, New English Art Club, Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and at many other venues in England and abroad; elected RBA, 1901, Associate of the Society of Painter-Etchers (ARE), 1919 and member of the Royal Institute of Painters (ROI), 1918; travelled extensively and was a frequent visitor to Cornwall and a member of the St Ives Society of Artists 1938-49. His work is in many public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as the British Museum.