Biography
Glynn O. Jones (b. Manor Park, Essex, UK 1906 - d. London 1984) attended Coopers School, Row (1919-23), then the Slade School of Fine Art (1923-6), under Henry Tonks and Philip Wilson Steer. He won the Prix de Rome in decorative art (1926) and studied in Rome with Rex Whistler. While there, he travelled widely around the Mediterranean and was commissioned to paint for the Lord Milner memorial, Canterbury Cathedral. When he returned to London, he took a flat at 105 Charlotte Street, which doubled as the Spectrum Gallery, running it with the sculptor Marjorie Meggitt, whom he married in 1937. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Leicester Galleries and Fine Art Society, where Lord d'Abernon, Lord Howard de Walden and Sir Joseph Duveen bought his work, his patrons for many years. His solo exhibitions included at The Fine Art Society (1931), and The Twenty One Gallery (1932). During WW2 Jones was commissioned in the Army, working in Britain as an interpreter with Italian prisoners and in censorship. He completed many murals, venues including British Legion Hall, Parson's Green; St Augustine's, Fulham; St Bride's, Fleet Street (plus a stained-glass window design); St Alphege, Greenwich; and Trinity House. Many portrait commissions included the prime minister Lord Wilson with his wife Mary.
