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Frederick Donald Blake

Frederick Donald Blake (1908 - 1997) was active/lived in England, Scotland.  Frederick Blake is known for Landscape, marine and harbor view painting.

Born in Greenock, Scotland in 1908, Frederick Blake moved to London with his family when he was a child and he remained in the South for the rest of his life. He trained at Camberwell School of Art and at fifteen years of age started work as an architectural draughtsman in the interior design business.

Early in 1940 he was drafted into a small group of war artists producing propaganda work for the Ministry of Information, and for three evenings a week worked for the Daily Express drawing war maps and impressions of battles. On the other nights he worked long hours as an Air Raid Fire Officer. During this period he began to exhibit his paintings. He had work shown at the Royal Academy together with other Open Exhibitions in London.

As a freelance designer after the war, he worked for the aircraft industry, the railways and on road safety campaigns to mention but a few. But it was his painting that always took first place. By the early 1960s he had earned himself a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2280 characters.]  Artist bio

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