Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy Size:L: 75 x 60cm Kathy Kirby

Kathy Kirby

with a white shirt and lace neck-cloth

dressed for the occasion in the uniform of law and order

The Poor Man's Friend'

dead or alive

Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy Size:L: 75 x 60cm Kathy KirbyEdward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy, 1878. A historical painter, Armitage was influential in the movements for the restoration of fresco painting in England, and the decoration of the Houses of Parliament with historical designs. He became a Royal Academician in 1872, and became the Academy's professor and lecturer on painting in 1875. Armitage was a great collector of insects. From Men of Mark: a gallery of