Elliott Seabrooke (1886-1950)

Born in Essex at Upton Park, Seabrooke studied at the Slade between 1906 and 1911. During the First World War he served in the British Red Cross and worked as a war artist on the Italian Front.

He exhibited at the New English Art Club from 1909 until 1920, and at the London Group from 1919. He became a member of the London Group the following year. Later, in the 1940s, he was its President (1943-48) and Vice-President (1949-1950). By then he had adopted a pointillist style that owes much to Seurat, but in the earlier part of his career Cezanne's work influenced him. He painted landscapes and still life. His memorial exhibition was held at the Leicester Galleries in 1951.