Joseph Edward Southall RWS NEAC RBSA (23 Aug. 1861-6 Nov. 1944); English painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. A leading figure in the 19th and early 20th-century revival of painting in tempera, Southall was the leader of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen—one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link between the later Pre-Raphaelites and the turn of the century Slade Symbolists. A lifelong Quaker, Southall was an active socialist and pacifist, initially as a radical member the Liberal Party and later of the Independent Labour Party. Southall was elected an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) in 1898 and Member in 1902. He became President of the Society in 1939 and stayed in this post until his death in 1944. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Southall) Born at Portland Road, St Mary's, Nottingham on 23 August 1861, only child of Joseph Sturge Southall, wholesale grocer, and his wife Eliza Maria née Baker, who married at Birmingham in 1860. His father died just over year after his son's birth when young Southall and his mother returned to live with his mother's family at Edgbaston, but by 1871 were living on their own at Gough Road, Edgbaston, Kings Norton, Worcestershire. Educated at the Quaker schools of Ackworth and at Bootham School in York and in 1878 articled to architects' Martin & Chamberlain, while also studying painting part-time at the Birmingham School of Art... Southall made several tours in Europe visiting Bayeux, Rouen and Amiens in Northern France... then spent 13 weeks in Italy, learning the 16th century art of tempera painting and, on his return to Birmingham, Southall conducted his first experiments in tempera painting at the School of Art.... In June 1903 Southall married his first cousin [Bessie] Anna Elizabeth Baker, a close companion since their youth. (http://www.suffolkpainters.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=3029) undefined

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