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Biography
Elwin Hawthorne was born and lived in London, his wife the painter Lilian Hawthorn, his uncle part-time artist Henry Silk. Like them he showed with the East London Group at Lefevre Gallery, having studied from 1927 with John Cooper at the Bow and Bromley Evening Institute. Through the Group Hawthorn ('e' was initially a mistake in a review which Lefevre chose to retain) met Walter Sickert, whose studio assistant he was for three years. Held two solo exhibitions with Lefevre in 1934 and 1938. Manchester City Art Gallery holds example of his work. Duke of Rutland, Earl of Sandwich, Sir Edward Marsh, Charles Laughton and J.B. Priestley collected his work. (David Buckman Artists in Britain since 1945)