William Washington RBA ARCA ARE (1885 – 18 July 1956) was a British engraver and painter and Principal of the Hammersmith School of Art for 20 years.
[1][2] Washington was born in Marple, Cheshire, a son of a railway signalman,[3] and started his studies at Ashton-under-Lyne’s Hegginbottom Art School whilst working for a printing company.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Paris Salon while the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum hold permanent collections of his work.
[3] The Studio magazine described his work as:[5] whose linear conceptions of places and portraiture are irradiated by a vital expressivenessHis work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
[6] In 1954 he was elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild.