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Charles Walter Simpson

1885–1971

Charles Simpson was the son of Major General CR Simpson of the Lincolnshire Regiment and was destined for a career in the army, but this was prevented by a riding accident in his youth.

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Instead he turned to art, studying with Lucy Kemp-Welch at Bushey, J. Noble Barlow and Stanhope Forbes, RA, in Newlyn and in 1910 at Julien's atelier in Paris. Simpson had painted with Alfred Munnings in Norfolk in the early 1900's and may have persuaded Munnings to join the Newlyn colony in 1908.

Munnings and Simpson remained lifelong friends. In 1913 Simpson married fellow artist Ruth Alison and moved to Newlyn, later residing in Lamorna and then London before settling permanently in Penzance. From 1916, with his wife, he ran a painting school in St.

Ives.

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Simpson exhibited landscapes, bird and sporting paintings at the Royal Academy – 48 works in total from 1907 to 1953. Many of his hunting paintings were reproduced in Country Life. In 1924