Charles Ricketts
Charles Ricketts was born in 1866 in Geneva, Switzerland, and dies in 1931 in London. He was a painter of romantic subjects, an illustrator, stage designer, sculptor, connoisseur, and writer of art.
He had an English Father and a French Mother, and was brought up in France and Italy.
He studied in 1882 at Lambeth School of Art where he met his lifelong friend Charles Shannon., with whom he founded the magazines The Dial (1889 - 1897) and The Vale Press (1896 - 1904).
He gave up printing after 1904, and turned to painting and occasionally sculpture.
He began to design for the theatre in 1906. His designs included sets for Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (1924).
He exhibited at the International Society from 1906, and the Grosvenor Gallery from 1921.
He was an art advisor to the National Gallery of Canada from 1924 to 1931. e was the author of The Radio and it's Masterpieces (1903), Titain (1910), Pages on Art (1913), and the Posthumous Self-Portrait (1939).
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