Charles Isaac Ginner CBE ARA (4 March 1878 – 6 January 1952)[1] was a British painter of landscape and urban subjects.
Born in the south of France at Cannes, of British parents, in 1910 he settled in London, where he was an associate of Spencer Gore and Harold Gilman and a key member of the Camden Town Group.
When he was sixteen, he suffered from typhoid and double pneumonia and travelled in a tramp steamer around the south Atlantic and the Mediterranean to convalesce; on returning to Cannes, he worked in an engineer's office, and in 1899, at the age of 21, moved to Paris to study architecture.
[clarification needed] In 1909, Ginner visited Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he held his first one-person show, which helped to introduce post-Impressionism to South America.
In 1910, Ginner went to London, to serve on the Hanging Committee of the Allied Artists Association's third exhibition.
He lived at first in Battersea, but afterwards in Camden Town, where he was a neighbour of Gilman and Gore and regularly attended the Saturday afternoons at 19 Fitzroy Street, meeting Robert Bevan, John Nash, Albert Rothenstein, C. R. W. Nevinson, Jacob Epstein, Walter Bayes, Walter Sickert, and Lucien Pissarro.