William Rothenstein

William Rothenstein

Sir William Rothenstein, (January 29 1872 – February 14 1945), was an English painter, draughtsman and writer on art.

He was born into a Jewish family in Bradford and studied at the Slade School of Art (his teachers included Alphonse Legros) and in Paris, where he met and was encouraged by Rex Whistler and Edgar Degas. He was a friend of caricaturist and parodyist Max Beerbohm. Rothenstein became known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and was an official war artist in both World War I and World War II. He was a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers.

Rothenstein was Principal of the Royal College of Art from 1920 to 1935, where he encouraged figures including Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore and Paul Nash. He wrote several books, including "English Portraits" (1898) and the autobiographical volumes, "Men and Memories". He was knighted in 1931.

William Rothenstein was the father of art historian Sir John Rothenstein, who was the director of the Tate Gallery from 1938 to 1964, and the highly respected British printmaker Michael Rothenstein, whose divorce from Duffy Ayers caused a major controversy in British society.

Rabindranath Tagore has dedicated his Nobel Prize winner poetry collection Gitanjali to William Rothenstein. [Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore publisheb by macmillan]

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