Philip
Wilson Steer was born in Birkenhead in 1860. Educated at the Gloucester
School of Art and in Paris (1882-84), he returned to England in 1885
where he became a teacher at the Slade Art
School. A founder member of the New English
Art Club, he made his reputation as a landscape painter.
During the First World War, he was recruited
by Lord Beaverbrook, the Minister
of Information, to paint pictures of the Royal
Navy.
After the war Steer returned to the Slade Art
School until his retirement in 1930. Philip Wilson Steer died
in 1942.
Philip Wilson Steer, Mine-Sweepers at Dover (1918)
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