Artist: Sir William Coldstream (1908 - 1987)
Nationality: English
Movement: Euston Road School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
After moving from Northumberland to London with his family in 1910, Sir William Coldstream studied at Slade School and joined the London Group. He focused on filmmaking for three years before returning to painting and joining the Euston Road School at the encouragement of Kenneth Clark. Coldstream’s conventional subject matters, urban scenes, portraits, and nudes, worked well with the school’s emphasis on figurative and realist painting. At the outbreak of WWII, Coldstream joined the Royal Artillery and then worked as a war artist in Cairo and Italy. He also wrote the Coldstream Report in 1960, an arts administration document that developed the art instruction techniques in the United Kingdom.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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William Faithorne , The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior, William, Youngest Son of Lord William Russell, 18th - 19th century
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Adriaen Pynacker, William of Orange (William III) Commemorative Plate, 1690
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William Page - Mrs. William Page 1860-61 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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William Henry Watt, William Lourdsworth, 19th century
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Arthur William Devis - The Hon. William Monson and His Wife, Ann Debonnaire c. 1786 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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William Faithorne , Hot to Guide Your Needles..., plate 4 opposite page 12 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , How to Use the Oval Points..., plate 5 opposite page 15 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , Hot to Choose Your Needles..., plate 3 opposite page 10 in te book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , How to Dry or Harden the Varnish..., plate 2 opposite page 9 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Hancock Wilke, William Andrew Clark, Jr., 19th - 20th century
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William Dickinson, Portrait of the Reverend William Preston, 18th - 19th century
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William Nicholson, London Types (London: William Heinemann, 1898), 1898
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William Matthew Prior, Isaac Josiah and William Mulford Hand, circa 1845
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William Page - Colonel William Leete Stone 1839 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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William Faithorne , At the upper end of the plate you have the woman"s arm..., plate 8 opposite page 22 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , The forms of graving-tools, plate 9 opposite page 43 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne(London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , How to apply your hard Varnish..., plate 1 opposite page 7 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Fares, Untitled, 1974
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William T. Wiley, A Suite of Daze by William T. Wiley (Chicago: Landfall Press Inc., 1977)., 1977
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William Bagdatopoulos - Dr. William Henry Holmes 1929 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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William Faithorne , How to apply ye Aqua Fortis upon ye Plate, plate 6 opposite page 18 in the book, The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Merritt Chase - Portrait of President William Waugh Smith 1907 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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William Nicholson, An Almanac of Twelve Sports (London: William Heinemann, 1898), 1898
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William Gilpin, An Essay upon Prints by William Gilpin (London: J. Robson, 1768), 1768
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William Henry Bartlett, The Danube by William Beattie (London & New York: Virtue & Co., [ca. 1840]), 1840
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William Faithorne , The manner of Casting the Aqua Fortis Upon the Plate, plate 7 opposite page 19 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Merritt Chase - Mrs. William Merritt Chase c. 1890 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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William T. Wiley, "C.D.O.D." (plate no. 12) in the book A Suite of Daze by William T. Wiley (Chicago: Landfall Press Inc., 1977)., 1977
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William Blake , Balladsä relating to Animals by William Hayley (London: Richard Phillips, 1805), 1805
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William T. Wiley, "Rim Rat" (plate no. 1) in the book A Suite of Daze by William T. Wiley (Chicago: Landfall Press Inc., 1977)., 1977
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William Danforth, Platter, 1790 - 1820
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Carl Fredrik von Breda - Mrs. William Hartigan 1787-1796 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Swedish
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Thomas Eakins - William H. Macdowell c. 1904 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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John Singer Sargent - Mrs. William Shakespeare c. 1896 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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John George Brown - Waiting for William 1879 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art American
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Gainsborough Dupont - William Pitt 1787-1796 oil on board National Gallery of Art British
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Henry Raeburn - William Glendonwyn c. 1795-1800 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Trumbull - William Rogers 1804-1808 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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George Romney - Sir William Hamilton 1783-1784 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British

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Further Artwork and Information:

Sir William Coldstream Online
Sir William Coldstream English Euston Road School
Coldstream, Sir William
Bridgeman Art Library - About Us - Artists and Collections
Orwell Papers: Sonia Orwell (Blair) papers
MUIR, William
James Hyman Fine Art: Gallery homepage at artnet.com
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The Slade School of Fine Art

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