Artist, born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and in Paris, won fame as a portrait painter, and became principal of the Royal College of Art. He was an official war artist in both world wars.
Sir William Rothenstein, (January 29, 1872 – February 14, 1945), was an English painter, draughtsman and writer on art.
He was born in Bradford and studied at the Slade School of Art (his teachers including Alphonse Legros) and in Paris, where he met and was encouraged by James McNeill Whistler and Edgar Degas.
Rothenstein was Principal of the Royal College of Art from 1920 to 1935, where he encouraged figures including Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore and Paul Nash.
William Rothenstein was the father of art historian and director of the Tate Gallery from 1938 to 1964, John Rothenstein, and the highly respected British printmaker Michael Rothenstein, whose divorce from Duffy Ayers caused a major controversy in British society.
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