Biography
William Westley Manning (b. Marylebone London, UK 1868 - d. 1954) trained Slade School of Fine Art and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Malcom Osborne. He was at the Académie Julian in Paris (1892), where he probably met a number of artists whose acquaintance he contimnued in St Ives, Cornwall, where he me Albert Julis Olsson (1864-1942) at the St Ives Arts Club in 1896. He was later a member of the St Ives Society of Artists (1938-49). His aquatints in black and white were among his most successful pieces; he exhbited at the Baillie Gallery, Chenil Gallery, Fine Art Society, Goupil Gallery, New English Art Club, Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and at many other venues in England and abroad, He was elected RBA, 1901, Associate of the Society of Painter-Etchers (ARE), 1919 and member of the Royal Institute of |Painters (ROI), 1918; and his work appears in many public collections, including the British Museum. The Aquatints of W. W. Manning was published by P & D Colnaghi in 1929.
