Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe (23 August 1871 – 17 October 1953) was a British

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painter, miniaturist,

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and

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. He was born at

Landour Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about from the city of Dehradun in Dehradun district in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India. The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj-e ...

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. In 1881 he was living with his widowed mother in Walcot,

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. He studied at the

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(where he met

Byam Shaw John Byam Liston Shaw (13 November 1872 – 26 January 1919), commonly known as Byam Shaw, was a British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher. He is not to be confused with his sons, Glen Byam Shaw, actor and theatre director, and James ...

, also born in India) and

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Schools. He was working in Chelsea 1902–03 and at

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, 1914–25.Simon Houfe: ''The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists'', Antique Collectors' Club, 1996.

Selected works

* Pa

* Study for the War Memorial at Albury, Surre

* The Molson Brothers: Harold and Eric, sons of John Elsdale Molson

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* British people of Indian descent British illustrators 19th-century British painters British male painters 20th-century British painters Alumni of the Royal College of Art 1871 births 1953 deaths 19th-century British male artists 20th-century British male artists British people in colonial India {{UK-illustrator-stub