Ernest Townsend
(1880–1944) painter who worked in Derby and did camouflage during WWII (1880-1944)
Ernest Townsend (United Kingdom, 1880–1944) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Ernest Townsend belongs to the chapter ‘The avant-garde’ in this site’s history of art.
Ernest Townsend was born in Derby and died in Derby.
The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 10 works by Ernest Townsend with free images. The dated works span the years 1910–1942. Works by Ernest Townsend are held by several collections, among them Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby Cathedral, National Railway Museum, and Blackpool Town Hall.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith Matthew Smith, Vanessa Bell, Lilian Snelling, Ernest H. Shepard, and Edna Clarke Hall.