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Jan 01, 1880 Derby, England, United Kingdom Died on 22 Jan 1944 (aged 64)
painter who worked in Derby and did camouflage during WWII
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About Ernest Townsend
- Ernest Townsend (1 January 1880 – 22 January 1944) was a portrait artist from Derby in England.Townsend studied at Derby College of Art, Heatherleys in Chelsea and the Royal Academy.
- Among his works were a 1915 portrait of the Right Hon.
- Winston Churchill when he was First Lord of the Admiralty.
- This picture now hangs in the National Liberal Club in London.Townsend was commissioned to create a design for the roofs of the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine factories in Derby so that they would appear to German bombers to be no more than a village.
