Carel Weight was born in London in 1908 and became a painter of portraits, figures and townscapes, often with religious or literary subjects. His friend Ruskin Spear had his first show with Carel at Picture Hire in Brook Street in 1934 and they later shared a show at the opening of the Leicester Galleries in Cork Street. Another great friend was Kokoschka who Carel used to visit during the Blitz in London. Munch and Spencer were among many that influenced his work.
Carel Weight’s public commissions have included murals for the Festival of Britain in 1951 and “Christ & The People”, for Manchester Cathedral in 1963. Carel Weight died in 1997.
1926 -29 Studied at Hammersmith School of Art (where he met Ruskin Spear)
1929 - 32 Goldsmith’ College under Gardiner, Mansbridge and Bateman
1931 Exhibited at the Royal Academy
1933 First Solo Exhibition at the Cooling Gallery
1934 Elected RBA
1945 - 46 Official War Artist
1947 - 57 Worked as a tutor
1950 Elected LG
1954 Elected RWA
1955 Elected ARA
1957 - 73 Professor of Painting at RCA
1962 Awarded a CBE
1965 Elected RA
1973 Made Professor Emeritus
1975 - 84 Trustee of RA
1982 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Edinburgh University
1982 Retrospective Exhibition at Royal Academy
1983 Made Senior Fellow
ONE MAN SHOWS
1933 Cooling Gallery, London
1934 -39 Picture Hire Ltd., London
1947 Leicester Galleries
1951, 59,61 Zwemmer Gallery
1960 Agnews
1965 Bournemouth (with Ruskin Spear)
1966 Nottingham University Art Gallery
1967 Bear lane Gallery, Oxford
1970 Reading Museum and Art Gallery
1972 Fieldborne Galleries
1973 Royal College of Art
1974,76,81 New Grafton Gallery
1975 Arts Centre, Folkstone
