Raymond Ray-Jones
| Raymond Ray-Jones | |
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| Born |
Raymond Jones August 31, 1886 Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, UK |
| Died | February 26, 1942 (aged 55) Carbis Bay, St Ives, Cornwall, UK |
| Cause of death | Suicide |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Painter-etcher |
| Known for | Draughtsmanship |
| Spouse(s) | Effie Pearce |
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Raymond Ray-Jones (31 August 1886 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire - 26 February 1942 in Carbis Bay near St Ives, Cornwall) was an English painter and etcher.
Born Raymond Jones, he was the eldest son and second child of Samuel Shepley Jones, a cabinet maker, and his wife Martha Hulme.
Leaving St Ann’s school in Ashton at the age of fourteen, Ray-Jones worked first at the National Gas & Oil Co. Ltd., and studied part-time at Ashton's Heginbottom School of Art under J.H. Cronshaw. He showed enough talent to gain a county scholarship and a place at the Royal College of Art in Kensington, London in 1907 – a considerable achievement in those days. At the R.C.A. he studied under Prof Gerald Moira and Sir Frank Short RA, P.R.E., and from May 1911 attended the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens, known as Académie Julian, in Paris, where he was awarded the Grand Prix and Medal for portrait painting.
In 1913, on the advice of his tutors, he changed his name to Raymond Ray-Jones, and by 1914 established a studio at Joubert Studios, 14 Jubilee Place, London SW3, off the King's Road. He became an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers on 17 March 1914 (now the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers). Ray-Jones served during the First World War (1914–18) as a clerk or ostler in the Royal Horse Artillery at Woolwich. This was followed by a period of penury in Jubilee Place.
Through Frank Short, his talent came to the notice of Edward Holroyd Pearce (later Lord Pearce), who was then an undergraduate at Oxford University.
Ray-Jones was an early member of the Society of Graphic Art (now the Society of Graphic Fine Art). He married Pearce’s sister, Effie Irene Pearce, on 12 February 1926, and they lived at Woodham Walter in Essex. in 1926 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.
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