Oswlad Birley

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Oswald Birley

Sir Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley

Biographical Summary
Date of Birth	31 March 1880
Place of Birth	Auckland, New Zealand
Date of Death	1952
Place of Death	London
Monument

Vocation & Acclamations
Artist
Royal/Society Portrait Painter
Knighted in 1949
President Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Sir Oswald Birley (Self Portrait)

Shortcuts
Personal Relationships	Locale	Oeuvre	Biographical Details

Personal Relationships
Relationship	Name	Date - Period
Wife	Rhoda Lecky Pike
Son	Mark Birley
Daughter	Maxine Birley
Daughter-in-law	Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart
Grandson	Robin Birley
Father-in-law	Hugh Francis Birley
Mother	Elizabeth Birley
Friend	Winston Churchill	1874 - 1965
Friend	Clementine Churchill	1885-1977

Locale
Where	Why	When
Charleston Manor, West Dean, East Sussex	Home

Oeuvre
Title	Genre	Date - Edition
Dwight D Eisenhower	Portrait	1945
Sir Gordon Cunard	Portrait	1930
HM King George VI	Portrait	1946
Earl Halifax	Portrait	1931
HM King George V	Portrait	1929
HM Queen Mary	Portrait	1934
HM The Queen (Elizabeth II)	Portrait	1949
HRH Prince Philip	Portrait	1949
Field Marshall Montgomery	Portrait	1948
Ghandi	Portrait	1932
Mountbatten	Portrait	1946

Biographical Details and Notes

As you can see from the list above he was quite prolific, to see more details go to the Charleston Manor website.

His son Mark Birley went on to be host/owner of nightclubs such as Annabel's.
His daughter-in-law after her divorce went on to marry again becoming Annabel Goldsmith, she had a son by Mark Birley, Robin Birley half brother to her daughter Jemima Khan nee' Goldsmith.

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