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David Tarttelin | |
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| Born | 1929 (age 95–96) Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England |
| Education | Slade School of Fine Art |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse | Kitty Pearson (m. 1951) |
David Tarttelin (born 1929) is an English painter.
As a child during World War II, Tarttelin was evacuated from Grimsby to Kirkstead, near Woodhall Spa, and attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle. He lived on a working farm which functioned with horse-drawn machinery, aspects of which have informed his work since.[ citation needed ]
Returning to Grimsby at the end of the war he studied at Wintringham Grammar School, where he was taught by the artist Ernest Worrall who encouraged him to apply for University College London's Slade School of Fine Art. He was accepted for the school at the age of 17, and studied under Randolph Schwabe and Sir William Coldstream. Others teaching at the Slade during Tarttelin's time were Sir Thomas Monnington, P.R.A., and visiting tutors Sir Stanley Spencer, Victor Pasmore and Lucian Freud. While at the school he was awarded a prize for watercolour landscape by the critic and art historian Eric Newton. Tarttelin returned to Grimsby and, with the exception of Army Service, has lived and worked there since.
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Tarttelin married Kitty Pearson in 1951; their children include environmentalist Mark Tarttelin and Napoleonic Society scholar John Tarttelin. His eldest grandchild is the actress and author Abigail Tarttelin.