Hector Whistler

Hector Whistler
Born Reginald Hector Whistler
(1905-01-22)22 January 1905
Jersey, Channel Islands
Died 1978

Reginald Hector Whistler (22 January 1905, in Jersey, Channel Islands[1]–1978), known as Hector, was a painter, muralist and illustrator. He was the cousin of artist Rex Whistler and glass engraver Lawrence Whistler.[2]

Whistler is known for his etched glass panels for the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.[3] and for his illustrations for an edition of The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.[4]

He was born in Jersey and educated at Victoria College there, then at the London School of Architecture, and Slade School of Art.[4]

He illustrated When Poland Smiled, by Derek du Pré, in 1940, during World War II, with profits going to the Polish Relief Fund.[5]

He moved to Jamaica in 1948.[6]

His paintings are in the collections of All Souls College, Oxford and Jersey Museum and Art Gallery.[7] Ascension of the Black Christ (1954) is in the First Baptist Church in Toronto, Canada.[8]

Glass doors panels by Whistler, originally from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, and depicting musical instruments in art deco style, were featured on the BBC One's Antiques Roadshow in March 2015. Thirteen Pilkington glass panels had been purchased from a market in France by a Liverpool dealer, who expressed an interest in donating some to local museums.[3]

References

  1. ↑ St Helier baptisms record 8/5390
  2. ↑
  3. 1 2 "Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral 1". Antiques Roadshow. Series 37. Episode 1. 22 March 2015. BBC Television. Check date values in: |access-date= (help);
  4. 1 2 "Whistler Family". Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  5. ↑ book jacket
  6. ↑ Shared Visions: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the University of the West Indies. Canoe Press, University of the West Indies. 1997. p. 86. ISBN 9789768125460.
  7. ↑ Paintings by Hector Whistler at the Art UK site
  8. ↑ Scott, Jamie S. (2012). The Religions of Canadians. University of Toronto Press. pp. 117–. ISBN 9781442605169. Retrieved 22 March 2015.

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