Francis Ernest Jackson

Francis Ernest Jackson ARA (15 August 1872 – 11 March 1945) was a British painter, draughtsman, poster designer and lithographer.

He then studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts under Bouguereau, Ferrier, J.-P. Laurens and Constant.

He began teaching the skill at London County Council schools including Bolt Court, Camberwell, Croydon and Chelsea, before William Lethaby invited him to join the staff at the Central School of Art and Design in 1902.

[3] In 1907 he became a co-founder of The Neolith and a founding member of the Senefelder Club, as well as starting the lithograph journal "The Imprint" in 1913 with fellow tutors Edward Johnston, J.H.

Reality and art were not connected, but running in parallel one unto the other, and therefore in the final conception of the painting there ought to be no instant of accident, as though nature itself were allowed a role in the process.