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Julian Trevelyan (Julian Otto Trevelyan) was born on 20 February, 1910 in Dorking, Surrey, England, is an English artist and poet. Discover Julian Trevelyan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

Popular As Julian Otto Trevelyan
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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 February 1910
Birthday 20 February
Birthplace Dorking, Surrey, England
Date of death 12 July, 1988
Died Place Hammersmith, London, England
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His wife is Ursula Darwin (m. 30 July 1934-1950) Mary Fedden (m. 1951)

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1910

Julian Otto Trevelyan (20 February 1910 – 12 July 1988) was an English artist and poet.

Trevelyan was the only child to survive to adulthood of Robert Calverley Trevelyan and his wife Elizabeth van der Hoeven.

His grandfather was the liberal politician Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and his uncle the historian George Macaulay Trevelyan; he is the great-uncle of his namesake, Julian Trevelyan the pianist.

Julian Trevelyan was educated at Bedales School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature.

He moved to Paris to become an artist, enrolling at Atelier Dix-Sept, Stanley William Hayter's engraving school, where he learned etching.

He worked alongside artists including Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.

1934

He married the potter Ursula Darwin, daughter of Bernard Darwin and his wife Elinor (née Monsall) on 30 July 1934.

1935

In 1935, Trevelyan bought Durham Wharf, beside the river Thames in Hammersmith, London.

This became his home and studio for the rest of his life and was a source of artistic inspiration to him.

He became a confirmed Surrealist and exhibited at the International Surrealist Exhibition, held at the New Burlington Galleries in London.

1937

Trevelyan's first solo exhibition was at the Lefevre Gallery in 1937.

His work has been exhibited at Waddington Galleries (commissioned a series of etchings), New Grafton Gallery, Bohun Gallery, River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, the Bloomsbury Gallery, Messum's, the New Burlington Galleries in London, and Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, among other places.

1940

He was a member of the Royal Engineers from 1940 to 1943, serving in North Africa and Palestine.

You cannot hide anything in the desert.

Arriving in the "Western Desert" town of Tobruk, North Africa, Trevelyan realized that standard British army green and brown splotches were ineffective as desert camouflage.

He and the other camoufleurs, working under Hugh Cott and Geoffrey Barkas, became expert at desert camouflage and deception.

1942

By 1942, they were able to deceive the German Afrika Korps, creating a dummy army which successfully tied down German forces, while real tanks were concealed or disguised as trucks and other equipment.

1950

From 1950 to 1955, Trevelyan taught history of art and etching at the Chelsea School of Art.

She was a great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin; their marriage was dissolved in 1950.

Their son is the film-maker Philip Trevelyan.

1951

Trevelyan's second wife was the painter Mary Fedden; they married in 1951.

1955

From 1955 to 1963, Trevelyan worked at the Royal College of Art and became Head of the Etching Department.

Because of his enthusiasm in his work and the desire to share it with others, Trevelyan became a highly influential teacher, with students including David Hockney, Ron Kitaj and Norman Ackroyd.

1957

Trevelyan recorded some of his experiences in his book Indigo days, MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1957.

1960

He was an important leader of modern print techniques and today is regarded as a silent driving force behind the etching revolution of the 1960s.

1969

In 1969, he produced the Thames Suite, a collection of 12 views of the Thames from its upper reaches in Oxford and Henley-on-Thames down to the tidal stretches of London and the Estuary.

Along with other artists such as Roland Penrose, during the Second World War, Trevelyan served as a Camouflage Officer.

1986

In July 1986, Trevelyan was awarded a senior fellowship at the Royal College of Art and in September 1987 he was appointed a Royal Academician.

1988

Trevelyan died on 12 July 1988 in Hammersmith, London.

1998

In 1998 a major Retrospective "Julian Trevelyan:The Imaginative Impulse" was held at the Royal College of Art which subsequently toured to Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; Laing Gallery Newcastle, and Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate with accompanying catalogue published by Bohun.

Catalogue Raisonne of Prints edited by Silvie Turner launched at Royal Academy..

'Julian Trevelyan Retrospective of Etchings' at Bohun Gallery with opening of River & Rowing Museum mounting 'Julian Trevelyan: River Thames Etchings'.

2010

To celebrate the centenary of his birth, an exhibition of his prints was held at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester from 10 May to 13 June 2010.

Bohun Gallery handles the artist's estate, and stages regular exhibitions of his paintings and etchings.

105 of his artworks are now held in the collection of the Tate Gallery.

2013

Bohun Gallery held a major retrospective of the artist's work 'Julian Trevelyan: Picture Language' 23 April - 1 June 2013, which included previously unseen paintings and etchings.

The exhibition launched the new monograph on Julian Trevelyan, written by his son Philip Trevelyan.