Born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool on 13th May 1883, Reginald’s parents were Joseph Brundrit and his wife, Mary Ellenor Brundrit, nee Lacock. After the death of his Father, Reginald and his mother went to live in Skipton in Yorkshire, where Mary was born.
Educated in Skipton, then at Bradford Grammar School, Reginald went on to study art at Bradford School of Art, before moving to London to study at the Slade School. Reginald also studied as a private pupil with John Swan, RA. Reginald was predominantly a landscape and portrait painter. He exhibited around two hundred of his paintings between 1906 and 1961 both at Royal Academy art exhibitions and at international exhibitions in Pittsburgh, USA, Rome and Venice in Italy and Paris in France.
During the First World War, Reginald volunteered with the Red Cross and served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front with the Third Red Cross Ambulance Unit of The British Red Cross Society and Order Of St John Of Jerusalem.
Reginald was the founder member of the Wharfedale Group and was Vice President of The Yorkshire Union of Artists. He was a successful artist during the 1920’s, establishing a reputation as one of the leading landscape artists of North Yorkshire. The National Gallery of New South Wales purchased his painting of ‘A Northern Winter.’
In 1933, Reginald married Lena F. Worthington, who was also an artist. Lena deferred to her husband as an artist and instead began to decorate porcelain - the tea sets, plates and bowls she embellished were beautiful.
Reginald died on 27th November 1960 at his home in Masham, Yorkshire.
Sources:
http://anniebrundrit.blogspot.com/2012/06/
Annie kindly gave me permission to share the photograph of Reginald from her website.
http://www.askart.com/artist_keywords/Reginald_Grange_Brundrit/11091436/Reginald_Grange_Brundrit.aspx
http://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00027726
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/16270/lot/406/
Painting: "Doberdo Village on the Carso"
