Biography
Archibald Hattemore (b. Bethnal Green, London, UK 1890 - d. 1949) was part of the East London Group of artists who first worked as a tea dealer as well as a boot repair man in Wick Road, Bethnal Green with his father, Frederick, and brother, Sidney, who were also wood carvers, just before WW1. He later worked as a Metropolitan Water Board inspector, and often went to the showrooms of a glass and mirror manufacturer, James Clark & Eaton Ltd in Blackfriars. Hattemore married Ada Luscombe in 1920 with whom he had three daughters. He joined the Bethnal Green Men's Institute under John Albert Cooper (1894-1943) and contributed a painting to the New English Art Club (NEAC) exhibition in 1926, called Interior which originally Sir Joseph Duveen purchased and was afterwards presented through the Contemporary Art Society as Interior, the Mantelpiece to The Astley Cheetham Art Collection, Stalybridge (Tameside Museusm and Gallereis) in 1962 along with The Dead Flamingo, Interior of Bethnal Green Museum which was at the East London Art Club exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery between 8 December – 22 December 1928 where Hattemore had contributed 14 pictures out of the total of 184 and which was also one of two of his paintings to be shown at the small Group exhibition at the National Gallery, Millbank (now Tate Britain) in early 1929. Hattemore became the East London Art Club's secretary and exhbited at the first four East London Group exhibitions at Alex. Reid and Lefevre from 1929 to 1932. However, he later worked as an estimator for Acme Flooring Company, run by fellow East London Group member, Murroe Fitzgerald (1895-1967) which resulted in him giving up painting altogether.
