British war artist and portrait painter (1902–1975)
Simon Elwes
Elwes leaving the White House after completing sketches of President Harding. (Photo by Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1922)
Born
Simon Edmund Vincent Paul Elwes
(1902-06-29)29 June 1902
Theddingworth, Leicestershire, England
Died
6 August 1975(1975-08-06) (aged 73)
Amberley, West Sussex, England
Education
Slade School of Fine Art Académie Delécluse Academie des Beaux Arts Académie Andre Lhote
Known for
Portrait painting
Spouse
Gloria Elwes
Children
4 sons, including Dominick
Parent(s)
Gervase Elwes Lady Winifride Feilding
Awards
RA, RP
Patron(s)
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Lt. Col. Simon Edmund Vincent Paul Elwes, RP, RA, KM (29 June 1902 – 6 August 1975) was a British war artist and society portrait painter whose patrons included presidents, kings, queens, statesmen, sportsmen, prominent social figures and many members of the British Royal Family.[1] He was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.[2]
^HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison (Editors) (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol 18 (Ela-Fancourt). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861368-7. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^William Shawcross (2012). Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Farrar, Strus & Giroux. ISBN 978-1466827745.
Dudley Cary-Elwes and Father Luke Cary-Elwes.[citation needed] Simon's niece, Polly Elwes, was a television personality in Britain. Two of Simon's grandsons...
paternal grandfather was the portrait painter SimonElwes, whose own father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes (1866–1921). One of Cary's great-grandfathers...
as abbot Columba Cary-Elwes, Bishop Dudley Cary-Elwes, and Father Luke Cary-Elwes. Dominick was the grandson of Gervase Cary Elwes (1866–1921), a diplomat...
Elwes was born in London into a family of artists. His father Dominick Elwes and grandfather SimonElwes were portrait painters. Both died when Elwes...
James Hennessy. His grandfather was the painter SimonElwes RA and is a first cousin of the actor Cary Elwes. His early years were spent in Teheran, Persia...
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was created a life peer), Hon. Gloria Rodd (who married the painter SimonElwes), and Hon. Gustaf Rodd (who married Yvonne Mary Marling, the youngest...
Richard Everard Augustine Elwes, OBE, TD (28 May 1901 – 4 September 1968) was an English barrister and High Court judge. Elwes was the fifth son of prominent...
eloped with the painter Dominick Elwes. On 27 November 1957, Geoffrey Kennedy obtained a restraining order against Elwes. However, the High Court Tipstaff...
Gervase Henry Cary-Elwes, DL (15 November 1866 – 12 January 1921), better known as Gervase Elwes, was an English tenor of great distinction, who exercised...
by Steinberg and CeCe Pleasants. Joel David Moore, Max Osswald, Cassian Elwes and Colleen Camp are producing. In August, it was reported that Anna Camp...
learned that Queen Farida was having an affair with the British painter, SimonElwes, who had to flee Egypt to escape. Lampson taunted Farouk when he learned...
they were in Egypt, the English painter SimonElwes painted portraits of the couple. Jan proclaimed Elwes's portrait of his wife a masterpiece. In 1943...
(1896) Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880–1963) – soldier and diplomat SimonElwes (1902–1976) – war artist Christopher Tolkien (1924–2020) – academic editor...
Gervase Elwes is a full-time portrait painter following in the tradition of Sir SimonElwes, who painted HM the Queen. They have two brothers, Hugh Elwes (banker)...
starring Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney, Cary Elwes, and Garrett Hedlund. The original score was composed by John Debney. Georgia...
Yeomanry Cavalry by Francis Grant, Hilda, Mrs Cuthbert Leicester Warren by SimonElwes, Lt. Colonel John Leicester Warren by Graham Rust, and Margaret Leicester...
conference centre and wedding venue. It was the birthplace of painter SimonElwes (1902 – 1975). In the Domesday Book (1086), Hothorpe was under the ownership...
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