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De Glehn, Wilfrid-Gabriel, 1870-1951

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Personal name headingDe Glehn, Wilfrid-Gabriel, 1870-1951
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Variant(s)Glehn, Wilfrid-Gabriel de, 1870-1951
Von Glehn, Wilfrid-Gabriel, 1870-1951
De Glehn, Wilfried-Gabriel, 1870-1951
See alsoFamily: Emmet (Family : 1791- : Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1764-1827)
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Corporate body: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
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Student at: Brighton College
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Student at: Royal College of Art (Great Britain)
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Student at: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
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Other standard no.500009076
Associated countryEngland France United States
Associated placeBrighton (England) New Rochelle (N.Y.) Paris (France)
LocatedChelsea (London, England) Cornwall (England : County) Haute-Marne (France)
Birth date1870
Death date1951-05-11
Place of birthLondon (England)
Place of deathStratford Tony (England)
Field of activityPainting Impressionism World War, 1914-1918--Artillery operations Translating and interpreting
AffiliationRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Garrison Artillery
Profession or occupationPainters Translators
Found inHis Wilfrid-Gabriel de Glehn (1870-1951), 1989: p. 5 (British painter)
Wikipedia, Dec. 2, 2020 (Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (sometimes 'Wilfried') (1870-11 May 1951) was an Impressionist British painter, elected to the Royal Academy in 1932; changed name from Wilfrid von Glehn in May 1917; born in Sydenham in south-east London; after schooling at Brighton College, studied art at the South Kensington School of Art and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; met and married Jane Erin Emmet in New Rochelle, New York; made a permanent home in Chelsea, London; joined the staff of a British hospital for French soldiers, Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, Haute-Marne, France in January 1915; commissioned the following year and served with the Royal Garrison Artillery; fluent in French, spent the last part of the war as an interpreter; later spent summers in Cornwall and winters in France; died in his home The Manor House in Stratford Tony, Wiltshire)
Finding Aid to the Emmet Family papers ... in the Archives of American Art: biographical note (family descended from patriot Thomas Addis Emmet; member Jane Erin Emmet (1873-1961) married Wilfrid Von Glehn (later de Glehn))
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Associated languageeng fre