The last NEAC selection committee to be held at the Old Egyptian Hall in 1904 featuring Augustus John (hat, hands in pockets), William Rothenstein (seated on table), Roger Fry (seated nex to Rothenstein), Muirhead Bone (the second hat-wearer) and Philip Wilson Steer (in front of Bone)
See below for a growing resource of individual profiles of selected past NEAC Member Artists, including historical figures and recently-deceased colleagues.
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SELECTED PAST NEAC MEMBERS
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Mary Adshead
(1904–1995)Mary Adshead NEAC (15 February 1904 – 3 September 1995) was an English painter, muralist, illustrator and designer. She was elected a member of the New English Art Club in... -
Clare Atwood
(1866-1962)Clare 'Tony' Atwood (11 May 1866–2 August 1962) was a British painter of portraits, still life, landscapes, interiors and decorative flower subjects. She first exhibited with the New English Art... -
William Henry Bartlett
(1858-1932)William Henry Bartlett (1858-1932) NEAC RBA was an accomplished artist and draughtsman, focusing primarily on landscape painting and subjects associated with the sea. He was one of the founding members... -
Edward Bawden
(1903-1989)Edward Bawden NEAC RA CBE (10 March 1903 – 21 November 1989) was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork... -
Richard Bawden
(1936-2024)Richard Bawden sadly passed away on 31 May 2024. Read a tribute to Richard written by fellow NEAC member Richard Sorrell. Richard Bawden NEAC RE RWS (1936-2024) was a painter,... -
Aubrey Beardsley
(1872–1898)Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasised the... -
Max Beerbohm
1872–1956Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm NEAC (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He was elected to the New English... -
Frederick Donald Blake
(1908-1997)Frederick Donald Blake NEAC RI RSMA (1908-1997) was a Scottish-born artist and designer who was elected to the NEAC in 1967. Born in Greenock in Scotland on 7 June 1908,... -
Emily Beatrice Bland
(1864–1951)Emily Beatrice Bland NEAC (11 May 1864 – 20 January 1951) was an English artist who specialised in landscapes, still life and flower paintings. She was elected a member of... -
Stephen Bone
(1904–1958)Stephen Bone NEAC (13 November 1904 – 15 September 1958) was an English painter, writer, broadcaster and noted war artist. Bone achieved early success in book illustration using woodcuts before... -
Muirhead Bone
(1876-1953)Sir Muirhead Bone KBE NEAC RA RE (23 March 1876 – 21 October 1953) was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1903 where he remained an... -
Jason Bowyer
(1957-2019)Jason Bowyer PPNEAC PS RP (1957-2019) was a key figure within the NEAC - Past President and Founder of the NEAC Drawing School. Read our tribute to Jason (from 2019)... -
William Bowyer
(1926-2015)Born in 1926 in Leek, Staffordshire, William Bowyer RA RWS RP PPNEAC trained at Burslem School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London, where his tutors included Carel... -
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
(1821-1906)Hercules Brabazon Brabazon NEAC PS (born Hercules Brabazon Sharpe; 1821–1906) was an English artist, accomplished in Turner-esque watercolours. He was elected to the NEAC in 1891. Life and work Brabazon... -
Frank Bramley
(1857–1915)Frank Bramley RA NEAC (6 May 1857 – 9 August 1915) was an English post-impressionist painter of the Newlyn School. He was a member of the RA and one of... -
Robert Brown
(1936–2023)Robert (Bob) Brown NEAC passed away on 1 June 2023. Read our tribute from his fellow NEAC Members. ARTIST STATEMENT Bob Brown always painted what excited him. It's what made... -
James Cadenhead
(1858–1927)James Cadenhead NEAC RSA RSW (12 January 1858 – 22 January 1927) was a Scottish landscape and portrait painter. He was elected a member of the New English Art Club... -
Evelyn Cheston
1877-1929Evelyn Cheston née Davy NEAC (8 September 1875 – 31 October 1929) was a British painter in oils and watercolours of landscapes and outdoor scenes. She was elected a member... -
George Clausen
(1852-1944)Sir George Clausen KBE RA NEAC was a British artist working in oil and watercolour, etching, mezzotint, dry point and occasionally lithographs. He was one of the founding members of... -
Tom Coates
(1941-2023)Tom Coates PPNEAC PPPS PPRBA RP HonRWA RWS PPSEA OAS APF PatronMAS passed away on 20 July 2023. Read our tribute from his fellow NEAC Members. ARTIST STATEMENT As described... -
Dorothy Coke
(1897–1979)Dorothy Josephine Coke NEAC RWS (1897–1979) was an English artist notable for her work as a war artist on the British home front during the Second World War. She was... -
Charles Conder
(1868–1909)Charles Edward Conder NEAC (24 Oct 1868 – 9 Feb 1909) was an English-born painter, lithographer and designer. He emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg... -
Frederick Cuming
(1930-2022)Frederick Cuming NEAC RA DLitt Hon RBA devoted his life to expressing the fleeting impressions of his surroundings. Read our Members' Tribute to Fred Cuming who died in June 2022... -
John Currie
(1883–1914)John Currie NEAC (c. 1884 – 11 October 1914) was an English painter and murderer. He was elected a member of the NEAC in 1914. Currie was born in Staffordshire, the... -
Thomas Millie Dow
(1848-1919)Thomas Millie Dow NEAC RSE (28 October 1848 – 3 July 1919) was a Scottish artist and one of the earliest members of the New English Art Club, elected in... -
Bernard Dunstan
(1920-2017)Bernard Dunstan NEAC RA RWA PS Hon died in 2017. READ OUR TRIBUTE ARTICLE. Artist Statement “Paint what you love, love what you paint.” Method of Working Bernard Dunstan painted... -
Alfred East
1844–1913Sir Alfred Edward East RA NEAC RBA (15 December 1844 – 28 September 1913) was an English painter and one of the founder members of the NEAC in 1886. Edward... -
Tom Espley
(1931-2016)Tom Espley NEAC painted mainly from life, often drawing first. He also photographed to aid memory of the subject, mostly using an instant camera. He mostly worked in oils. His... -
Richard Eurich
(1903–1992)Richard Ernst Eurich NEAC OBE RA (14 March 1903 – 6 June 1992) was an English painter who worked as a war artist to the Admiralty in the Second World... -
Alice Maud Fanner
(1865–1930)Alice Maud Fanner NEAC SWA (1865–1930), later Alice Maud Taite, was a British landscape and marine painter in oils and watercolours. She was elected to the NEAC in the 1900s.... -
Elizabeth Forbes
1859–1912Elizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong) NEAC RE RI ( 29 December 1859 – 16 March 1912) was a Canadian painter who was primarily active in the UK. She was elected... -
Stanhope Forbes
(1857–1947)Stanhope Alexander Forbes NEAC RA (18 November 1857 – 2 March 1947) was a British artist and a founding member of the influential Newlyn school of painters. He was often... -
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
1872–1945Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale NEAC (25 January 1872 – 10 March 1945) was an English artist known for her paintings, book illustrations, and a number of works in stained glass. Fortescue-Brickdale was... -
Roy Freer
(1938-2021)Roy Freer NEAC RI ROI passed away in March 2021. READ OUR TRIBUTE TO Roy Roy's studies began during the 1950s and early 60s at Birmingham College of Art. He... -
Roger Fry
(1866-1934)Roger Eliot Fry NEAC (16 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar... -
Margaret Gere
(1878 – 1965)Margaret Gere NEAC RSBA (1878-1965) was a British painter, most noteably in tempera, of portraits, still lifes and narrative scenes. She was elected a member of the NEAC in 1926.... -
Mark Gertler
(1891-1939)Mark Gertler NEAC was one of the most prominent artists of his generation and an early member of the New English Art Club, elected in 1912. A painter of figures,... -
David Glück
(1939–2007)David Glück NEAC RWS RE was a painter, versatile printmaker and teacher, noted for his landscape and still life watercolours and etchings. He was elected to the New English Art... -
Spencer Gore
(1878–1914)Spencer Frederick Gore NEAC (26 May 1878–27 March 1914) was an early 20th Century British artist known for his paintings of everyday life (landscapes, music-hall scenes and interiors) with a... -
Duncan Grant
1885-1978Duncan Grant NEAC (1885-1978) was a Scottish painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, the Camden Group, and the... -
Ronald Gray
1868-1951Born in Chelsea in 1868, the artist, traveller and memoirist Ronald Gray studied at the Westminster School of Art under the influential Professor Fred Brown. He was elected a member... -
Anthony Green
(1939-2023)Anthony Green RA NEAC LG Hon RBA Hon ROI passed away on 14 February 2023 after a short illness. Read our collection of tributes to Anthony from his fellow NEAC... -
Josephine Harris
(1931-2020)Josephine Harris NEAC died in 2020. Fellow NEAC members Diana Armfield and Maurice Sheppard remember her in this article. READ OUR TRIBUTE TO Josephine -
Paul César Helleu
(1859–1927)Paul César Helleu NEAC was a French oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher and designer, best known for his numerous portraits of beautiful society women of the Belle Époque. He... -
Norman Hepple
1908–1994Robert Norman Hepple NEAC RA RP (18 May 1908 - 3 January 1994) was an English portrait painter, engraver and sculptor, best known for his portraits of the British royal... -
Karn Holly
(1940-2014)2014 was overshadowed by the death of Karn Holly NEAC, co-founder of the NEAC Drawing School. A Tribute to Karn Holly This is what Alex Fowler , NEAC member, wrote... -
Ken Howard
(1932–2022)Ken Howard passed away on 11 September 2022. He had been a NEAC member since 1962 and was our President from 1998 to 2003. He was not only a magnificent... -
Augustus John
(1878-1961)Augustus Edwin John OM RA NEAC (4 January 1878–31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He was elected to the New English Art Club in 1903. For... -
Peter Kelly
(1931-2019)Peter Kelly NEAC RBA passed away in 2019. READ OUR TRIBUTE TO Peter Artist Statement Peter Kelly's paintings displayed his mastery of light. His preference for a limited palette of... -
Mary Kent Harrison
(1915-1983)Mary Kent Harrison NEAC RBA was a British artist born in 1915 painting landscapes, still life, portraits and interiors as well as sculpting. She studied at The Kingston School of... -
Karólína Lárusdóttir
(1944-2019)Karólína Lárusdóttir NEAC RE RWS died on 7 Feb 2019 at the age of 74. READ OUR TRIBUTE TO Karólína 'Born in Reykjavik in 1944, Karólína Lárusdóttir NEAC RE RWS... -
Henry Herbert La Thangue
1859–1929Henry Herbert La Thangue RA NEAC was an English realist rural landscape painter associated with the Newlyn School. He was one of the founding members of the New English Art... -
John Lavery
(1856–1941)Sir John Lavery NEAC KBE RA RSA RHA (20 March 1856 – 10 January 1941) was an Irish painter best known for his portraits and wartime depictions. He was elected... -
Ann Le Bas
(1923-2020)Ann Le Bas NEAC RE died on 4 January 2020 at the age of 96. READ OUR TRIBUTE TO Ann Ann Le Bas made line engravings and paintings which gained... -
John Nash
(1893-1977)John Northcote Nash NEAC CBE RA (11 April 1893 – 23 September 1977) was a British landscape and still life painter, as well as a wood engraver and illustrator, particularly... -
Paul Nash
(1889-1946)Paul Nash NEAC is one of the New English Art Club's most famous past members. Elected to the club in the 1920s, he was a British surrealist painter and war... -
Christopher R. W. Nevinson
(1889-1946)Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson NEAC ARA (13 August 1889 – 7 October 1946) was an English figure and landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, and one of the most famous war... -
Winifred Nicholson
(1893–1981)Winifred Nicholson NEAC was a British painter, elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1937. She was married to the painter Ben Nicholson and was thus the... -
William Orpen
(1878–1931)Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen NEAC RA KBE RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine... -
Lucien Pissarro
(1863–1944)Lucien Pissarro NEAC (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of... -
Michael Pullée
(1936-2021)Michael Pullée NEAC was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1978, following in the footsteps of his father Ernest Edward Pullée and mother Margaret Pullée who... -
Dod Procter
1890–1972Dod Procter RA NEAC (1890–1972), born Doris Margaret Shaw, was an English artist, elected to the New English Art Club in 1929. Procter was a prominent member of the Newlyn... -
William Rothenstein
(1872–1945)Sir William Rothenstein NEAC (29 January 1872 – 14 February 1945) was an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, and writer on art. He was elected a member of the New... -
John Singer Sargent
(1856–1925)John Singer Sargent NEAC was elected to the New English Art Club in its founding year of 1886 and is one of the most famous artists of the Edwardian period.... -
Walter Sickert
(1860-1942)Walter Richard Sickert NEAC RA RBA (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942) was one of the most successful, prolific and famous artists of his generation and one of the... -
Dawn Sidoli
(1933-2022)We were saddened to hear the news that Dawn Sidoli NEAC RWA passed away on 10th May 2022. By way of a tribute, we have published a 2004 interview with... -
Stanley Spencer
(1891-1959)Sir Stanley Spencer NEAC KBE CBE RA (30 June 1891–14 December 1959) was elected a member of the New English Art Club in the 1920s and was one of the... -
Philip Wilson Steer
(1860–1942)Sir Philip Wilson Steer KBE OM NEAC RA (28 December 1860 – 18 March 1942) was one of the most prominent and famous British artists of the late 19th and... -
Margaret Thomas
(1916-2016)Margaret Thomas NEAC was a lyrical painter essentially in the English tradition. In her work, as in her life, there was a down-to-earth poetry and a complete rejection of all... -
Jonathan Trowell
(1938-2013)Jonathan Trowell NEAC was a professional and dedicated artist and his outstanding draughtsmanship enabled him to work with ease in all media. Although he covered a wide variety of subject... -
Henry Scott Tuke
(1858–1929)Henry Scott Tuke NEAC RA RWS (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929), was an English visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most notable work was... -
Edward Wadsworth
(1889–1949 )Edward Alexander Wadsworth NEAC ARA (29 October 1889 – 21 June 1949) was an English artist, closely associated with modernist Vorticism movement. He painted coastal views, abstracts, portraits and still-life... -
Ethel Walker
1861–1951Dame Ethel Walker DBE ARA NEAC LG (9 June 1861 – 2 March 1951) was a Scottish painter of portraits, flower pieces, sea pieces and decorative compositions. She was the... -
John Stanton Ward
1917–2007John Stanton Ward CBE RA NEAC RWS RP (10 October 1917 – 13 June 2007) was an English portrait artist, landscape painter and illustrator. He was elected a member of... -
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(1834–1903)James Abbott McNeill Whistler NEAC RBA RE was an American artist active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He was a prominent member of...
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