Pastoral

The painter and illustrator Albert Rutherston was born on 5 December 1881 in Bradford, Yorkshire. The son of Jewish immigrants of northern German descent, and younger brother of painter Sir William Rothenstein, he changed his name to Rutherston in 1916, possibly to differentiate himself from his more successful brother but most likely due to the anti-German sentiment that corresponded with the war. Like his brother, he attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London at which he befriended Augustus John and William Orpen. The Three Musketeers, as William Rothenstein described them, sketched and painted together, visited music halls and theatres to scout out potential life models and visited F

Screen · Britain · 1937. Encaustic on canvas. By Rutherston, Albert. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.