John Platt (artist)

John Edgar Platt (19 March 1886 – 29 April 1967) was an English painter, woodcut artist and designer of stained glass.

Platt quickly developed his skills in oil painting, watercolours, woodcuts and engraved woodblocks and held his first exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1913.

[8][5] Throughout the 1930s, whilst teaching at Blackheath, Platt produced a number of highly regarded woodcuts, prints and seascapes.

Over the next year he painted scenes of river traffic, the maritime rescue services, ocean transport, docks and marshalling yards.

[14] After World War II, Platt held a single major exhibition, Fifty Years of the Colour Print at Kensington in 1947, before he retired to Eastbourne in 1950.

War-time traffic on the River Thames, River Police at Waterloo Bridge during the Battle of Britain (1942) (Art.IWM ART LD 2642)
War-time traffic on the River Thames, RAF Sea-rescue Launch, London Bridge (1942) (Art.IWM ART LD 2643)