Walter Tyndale

Walter Tyndale studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Academy of Fine Arts Bruges. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bruges, Antwerp and Paris. Works named in the authority record are Academic study after a sculpture: bust of Zeus of Otricoli. Work by Walter Tyndale is recorded in the collections of Victoria Art Gallery and Musea Brugge.

• Name — Walter Tyndale • Birth Name — Walter Frederick Roope Tyndale • Born — 1855 • Birthplace — Bruges, Belgium • Died — 1943 • Place of death — La Seyne-sur-Mer, France • Education — Bruges Academy of Art; Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp); Léon Bonnat and Jan van Beers, Paris • Known for — Painter and illustrator • Movement — Orientalist

• Illustration — Long Street, Sherborne (The location for the "Sherton Abbas" of the "Wessex" novels of Thomas Hardy) • Illustration — The Tithe Barn, Abbotsbury (scene of the sheep-shearing in Thomas Hardy's "Far from the madding crowd") • Illustration — A "Takhtabosh" (or loggia) in Cairo Tyndale was born and brought up in the medieval town of Bruges in Belgium, and trained initially at the "Bruges Academy of Art". When he was 16, his family returned to England, settling in Bath in Somerset for several years. At the age of 18, he returned to Belgium, studying art first at the Academy in Antwerp, then moving to Paris where he studied under Léon Bonnat and Jan van Beers. In the 1870s, At the age of 21, circumstances obliged him to return to England in order to make a living from his art. He painted portraits and genre works in oils, and married a Miss Evelyn Dorothea Barnard. Until about 1890, he was known mainly as a portrait painter, but then moved to Haslemere in Surrey, started to teach art and switched to watercolour painting. He eventually commissioned the building of an Arts and Crafts movement-style house for himself called "Broad Dene", located on Hill Road in the town. Tyndale travelled to the Netherlands (with friend and fellow artist Claude Hayes), then to Portugal, where he held a successful exhibition in Porto. Subsequently, he painted in England (in a sketching group organised by Helen Allingham near Maidstone in Kent), and abroad in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Sicily, Italy and Rothenburg, Bavaria (a town he described as "a little paradise for sketchers").