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Anglo-Belgian artist
Émile Antoine Verpilleux
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Anglo-Belgian artist
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76 years
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Émile Antoine Verpilleux MBE (3 March 1888 – 10 September 1964) was an Anglo-Belgian artist who specialised in woodcut printmaking. He was the first artist to have hung a coloured print work at the Royal Academy.
Born in Notting Hill, London, to a Belgian father (also called Émile Antoine Verpilleux) and a Scottish mother (Edith Verpilleux, née Beard), he was educated in France and then at the Antwerp Académie des Beaux Arts.
He served with the Royal Air Force in the First World War and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours.
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