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Lawrence Gowing was born on 21 April, 1918, is an English artist. Discover Lawrence Gowing'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 72 years old?

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1918

Sir Lawrence Burnett Gowing (21 April 1918 – 5 February 1991) was an English artist, writer, curator and teacher.

Initially recognised as a portrait and landscape painter, he quickly rose to prominence as an art educator, writer, and eventually, curator and museum trustee.

He was described as a prominent member of the "English Establishment".

As a student of art history he was largely self-taught.

Born in Hackney, East London to Horace Gowing, a draper, and his wife, Louise, his first painting of note, Mare Street, Hackney, made reference to his father's shop.

1938

After attending Quaker schools Downs School at Colwall, Herefordshire and Leighton Park School, in 1938 he worked with William Coldstream at the Euston Road School; Coldstream was a friend for life.

He was a conscientious objector during World War II.

1940

In the 1940s he became recognised as a painter, and for the rest of his life was sought after to paint casual but quintessential portraits of the eminent, among whom were Clement Attlee, Lord Halifax, Veronica Wedgwood and Edgar Adrian.

At the same time he continued a lifelong practice of open-air landscape painting that he learned from Maurice Feild at school.

He was a protege of the Bloomsbury art critic Clive Bell.

1948

Gowing began teaching in 1948, first as Professor of Fine Art at King's College, University of Durham (now the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) from 1948 to 1958, then as Principal of Chelsea School of Art from 1958 to 1965, as Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds from 1967 to 1975, finally serving as Principal of the Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London from 1975 to 1985.

Concurrently, he authored a number of art monographs and catalogues on masters such as Vermeer, William Hogarth, J. M. W. Turner, Cézanne, Matisse, and Lucian Freud.

1966

Among the major exhibitions he organized were those for Turner at the Museum of Modern Art in 1966, Matisse in New York in 1966 and London in 1968, and Cézanne, which traveled in 1988-89 from the Royal Academy to the Musée d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art.

Gowing was a trustee of the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and the British Museum, and was a member of the Arts Council of Great Britain.

1967

After a long partnership and marriage with the writer Julia Strachey, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, he married Jenny Wallis in 1967.

They had three daughters.

He died of heart failure at the age of 73.

1978

In 1978, he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy of Arts, and was made honorary curator of its collections in 1985.

1980

In the 1980s he travelled to the United States to serve as Kress Professor at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and was also curator of the Phillips Collection in Washington.

Gowing also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1980.

1982

Knighted in 1982, he was made a chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 1985.