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Painter, mainly of landscapes, in oil, watercolour and gouache, and teacher, born in Rye, Sussex. He married the artist Doreen Cheesman. After study at Hastings School of Art, 1932–5, he attended the Royal College of Art, finishing with a postgraduate year and the award of the J Andrew Lloyd Scholarship for Landscape Painting in 1939. Showed at RA, NEAC, RWS, and in the provinces, having a series of exhibitions at the Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, between 1963–80. He was elected a fellow of the RWS in 1974. Cheesman taught part-time at Farnham School of Art from 1946; was full-time from 1948; retired in 1971; and had a retrospective there, 1980. The Imperial War Museum, Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne, Melbourne City Art Gallery and other provincial galleries hold his work.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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