Guests on their Way to the Abbey, Coronation

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Born in Sheffield in 1915, Charles Mozley attended the Sheffield School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. After graduating in 1937, he taught life drawing, anatomy, and lithography for a short time at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Mozley joined the Army and spent the next six years in the armed forces. He resumed a commercial artistic career after the war, designing film and theatre posters, book jackets, in addition to murals for the Festival of Britain on London's South Bank in 1951. An archive of Charles Mozley’s work as a book illustrator and cover designer is held at the University of Reading Library.

Places

Subjects

genre, man, crowd, robe, military uniform, feather (fashion accessory), coronation

Materials & Techniques

board, oil, oil painting

Artist

Charles Mozley (1915 - 1991)

Title

Guests on their Way to the Abbey, Coronation

Date

1953

Medium

Oil on board

Dimensions

height: 71.50 cm, width: 53.80 cm

Acquisition

Presented by the artist, January 1954

Inscription

none

GAC number

2519