Reginald Grenville Eves Art

Reginald Grenville Eves was a painter of portraits and topographical subjects in oil and watercolor. He was born on May 24, 1876, in London. Eves studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Alphonse Legros and Frederick Brown between 1891–95 and won a scholarship. Eves painted at Holwick, Yorkshire from 1895–1900 and then settled in London as a portrait painter and was encouraged by John Sargent. Eves exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1901 and the Paris Salon, winning medals in 1924 and 1926. He was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1933 and a Royal Academician in 1939. He painted portraits of many celebrities. Eves had a one-man exhibition at Knoedler in 1935 and was an Official War Artist from 1940–41. He died at Middleton-in-Teesdale, Durham on June 13, 1941. There was a memorial exhibition at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1947.