Leslie Davenport

Frank William Leslie Davenport ARCA (21 April 1905 – 28 February 1973) was a 20th-century British artist and teacher and a member of the Norwich Twenty Group of painters.

Born in Harrow the son of Rowland Davenport and Mary Emily (née Hayward), Leslie Davenport studied at the Harrow School of Art and the Royal College of Art.

From 1939 to 1944 during World War II he served as Aircraft Inspector in Bristol and Oxford.

In 1944 he commenced teaching at the Norwich School of Art where he remained until his retirement in 1971.

[2] From the mid 1950s to the early 1970s he led up to 200 artists, writers and musicians living on the beach and dunes at Winterton-on-Sea for six weeks every summer.