PETER ELLENSHAW — Born in 1913, barely a year before World War I was to assail England with bomb-dropping zeppelins and an economic downturn that would last for decades, master painter Peter Ellenshaw would spend his early years in hardship. “War was the devil that haunted all of us, driving out happier memories,” he writes in is pictorial autobiography, “Ellenshaw Under Glass” (Camphor Tree Publishers, 2003).
Ellenshaw’s father died in 1921, and his mother soon married the groundskeeper on an estate in Kent. Ellenshaw’s biological father had family living in Wilton Castle, near Enniscorthy, Ireland, and prior to his father’s death, Peter had been attending a private school in which he was taught, among other things, fine social graces. This ended abruptly as his mother remarried and his family moved into cramped living quarters on the estate his new stepfather tended to. Here, instead of kindly doffing his hat for the ladies, the seven-year old Ellenshaw was enlisted for the purpose of holding the lantern while the latrines were emptied at night.
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Aurora's Rescueby Peter Ellenshaw |
Fishing w/ Friendsby Peter Ellenshaw |
Hunnyby Peter Ellenshaw |
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Mickey's Dreamby Peter Ellenshaw |
Mystical Kingdom of the Beast by Peter Ellenshaw |
Pooh and Piglet in the Garden LOWby Peter Ellenshaw |
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Pooh Soccerby Peter Ellenshaw |
Practically Perfectby Peter Ellenshaw |
Rescuing Pigletby Peter Ellenshaw |
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Smoke Staircaseby Peter Ellenshaw |
Sweeps Dance on the Roof Topsby Peter Ellenshaw |
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