Artist Info
William Roberts RA
British painter of groups of figures and portraits, and was a war artist in both World War One and World War Two.
1909 apprenticeship with the advertising firm of Sir Joseph Causton Ltd, while attending evening classes at Saint Martin's School of Art in London.
1910-1913 London County Council scholarship to the Slade School of Art.
1925-1960 visiting lecturer at the Central School of Art
1965 a major retrospective of his work, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, at the Tate Gallery.
1966 elected a full member of the Royal Academy
