James Patchell Chettle RBA, FRSA
Born 1871
Died 1944
Active: 1926 - 1939
Country of birth and death: England
Painter
Born in Sale, Cheshire. Chettle had a cotton business in Manchester buying and selling cotton and fabric. He exhibited chiefly at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and Royal Society of British Artists (RBA). Chettle was elected to the RBA in 1935 and later served as President of that Society. Among his friends was the painter, L.S. Lowry. There are nine works by Chettle the collection of Manchester Art Gallery (http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/list.php?EMUSESSID=28739f979a577b19b58f7116ef0c8bb6&r=244757146#results, accessed 12 May 2011)
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts
President of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts
1935 - 1944
Sources
Catalogue of the 78th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1937
1937
pp. 1, 3, 54
Catalogue of the 79th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1938
1938
pp. 1, 3, 56
Citing this record
'James Patchell Chettle RBA, FRSA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1241785958, accessed 12 Aug 2022]
