Philip Wilson Steer Nicola Bray Fiona Owen reviewing Ruth Bidgood

Fiona Owen reviewing Ruth Bidgood and John Powell Ward

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Philip Wilson Steer Nicola Bray Fiona Owen reviewing Ruth BidgoodPhilip Wilson Steer (1860 1942) spent his childhood and youth at Whitchurch near Ross on Wye, just three miles from the English Welsh border, and studied at the Gloucester College of Art. He was at the centre of much controversy in the British art world at the end of the nineteenth century and was a prime mover in the adoption of French Impressionist techniques during that period. Although much criticised for this role, Steer taught at the Slade for