Roland Vivian Pitchforth

1895–1982

*Wet Windscreen, Ramsgate Harbour* c.1971
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Roland Vivian Pitchforth RA ARWS (25 April 1895 – 6 August 1982) was an English painter, teacher and an official British war artist during the Second World War. He excelled at watercolours and in later years concentrated on landscapes, seascapes and paintings of atmospheric effects.

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