Biography
William Giles (b. Reading, UK 1872 - d. 1939) studied at the Royal College of Art and later in Paris. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1916-17; Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colour. He was a painter and printmaker who founded the Society of Graver-Printers in Colour in around 1931, with the journal The Colour Print Club Journal. He devised an oil colour method of printing from metal plates ('Giles Method'). He bequeathed a fund to promote the subject. He was married to the artist Ada Matilda Shrimpton. His work is held by the V&A, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Hunterian, Glasgow, the British Council as well as by the British Museum.
