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Fred Appleyard was a figure, landscape and portrait painter who achieved great success at the major London exhibitions, notably the Royal Academy, mainly for his atmospheric and evocative scenes of the cultured society of southern England from 1915-1930.
Appleyard was born in Middlesborough and studied at the Scarborough School of Art, and then at the Royal Academy Schools and Royal College of Art. He exhibited widely during his lifetime, at the Royal Academy (forty-one works), the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (thirteen works) and the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts.
Appleyard is known chiefly for his scenes depicting families of obviously substantial means in outdoor settings, often incorporating ruins in his compositions. He used a dappled technique which was ideally suited to his frequent depiction of sunlight broken through trees. He was also fond of incorporating his own children into his work.
Appleyard was born in Middlesborough and studied at the Scarborough School of Art, and then at the Royal Academy Schools and Royal College of Art. He exhibited widely during his lifetime, at the Royal Academy (forty-one works), the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (thirteen works) and the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts.
Appleyard is known chiefly for his scenes depicting families of obviously substantial means in outdoor settings, often incorporating ruins in his compositions. He used a dappled technique which was ideally suited to his frequent depiction of sunlight broken through trees. He was also fond of incorporating his own children into his work.