Francis Ernest Jackson, 1872-1945
Main details
Reference number | 1996/8095 |
---|---|
Name | Francis Ernest Jackson |
AKA | Ernest Jackson |
Preferred name | F Ernest Jackson |
Born | 1872 |
Collection | |
Object type |
|
Completeness | 36% |
-
Biography
Attribute Value Biography Born in Yorkshire, Ernest Jackson was apprenticed to a firm of lithographers in Leeds and attended life classes at the Yorkshire College. He then studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and Academe Julian in Paris. He is known as a printer, painter and war artist.
From 1902 he taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. His teaching was instrumental to the development of lithography in Britain. Jackson was a keen lithographer and in 1913 suggested to Frank Pick that the Senefelder Club should produced a series of lithographic poster for the Underground. During the First World War he was in charge of the "Work and Ideals" posters for the Ministry of Propaganda. In 1921 he became Professor of drawing at the Royal Academy Schools under Charles Sims.
His work is now in a number of public collections in Britain including the Tate Gallery, and the Hunterian Gallery in Glasgow.Education Yorkshire College,Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris,Employment Designed posters for the Underground Group, 1913-1925Role Artist,