Eric Ravilious
Eric William Ravilious was an English painter, designer, book illustrator and wood engraver. He grew up in East Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs. He served as a war artist, and died when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland.
Ravilious was born onJuly 1903 in Churchfield Road, Acton, London, the son of Frank Ravilious and his wife Emma . While he was still a small child the family moved to Eastbourne in Sussex, where his parents ran an antique shop.
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