Philip Wilson Steer OM (28 Dec. 1860 – 18 March 1942); British painter of landscapes, seascapes, portraits and figure studies. He was also an influential art teacher. His sea and landscape paintings made him a leading figure in the Impressionist movement in Britain but in time he turned to a more traditional English style, clearly influenced by both John Constable and J.M.W. Turner... As a painting tutor at the Slade School of Art for many years he influenced generations of young artists. Steer was born in Birkenhead, in Merseyside, the son of a portrait painter and art teacher, Philip Steer (1810-71) and his wife, Emma Harrison (1816-98). When Steer was 3 years old the family moved to Whitchurch near Monmouth from where, after a period of home schooling, he attended the Hereford Cathedral School. After finding the examinations of the British Civil Service too demanding, he became an artist in 1878. He studied at the Gloucester School of Art and then from 1880-81 at the South Kensington Drawing Schools. He was rejected by the Royal Academy of Art, and so studied in Paris between 1882-84, first at the Académie Julian, and then in the École des Beaux Arts... where he became a follower of the Impressionist school. In Paris he was greatly influenced by seeing works by Edouard Manet and James McNeill Whistler and the French impressionists. ...In 1927 Steer began to lose the sight in one eye but he continued to paint, although mostly in watercolors rather than in oils, and his compositions became much looser, at times almost abstract but by 1940 he had stopped painting. In 1931 he was awarded the Order of Merit and died in London, 18 March 1942. His self portrait is in the collection in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Steer never married and throughout his life was a hypochondriac but was also benign, modest, amusing and held in great regard by those who knew him. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Wilson_Steer] undefined

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