ARTHUR GEORGE BELL RA (1849 - 1916)

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Arthur George Bell RA was a celebrated English watercolourist. He was educated at City of London School and at the Slade School of Fine Art and later a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérome (1824-1904) and Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (1837-1917) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.  A painter and illustrator and in 1888 a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club and was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1879; the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil Colours and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour.