Charles March Gere, RA RWS, was born in Gloucester on 5 June 1869, to an American father and a British mother. He completed his artistic training at the Birmingham School of Art and became a painter "of landscapes, figures and portraits in tempera, oils and watercolours; decorator and book illustrator" (Windsor 112). He also designed stained glass and embroidery, and was active in the Arts and Crafts movement. In particular, he illustrated works for William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, including the view of Kelmscott Manor used as the frontispiece to Morris's News from Nowhere. E. R. Payne describes him as an "extraordinarily accurate and careful draughtsman," and also as "a man of great personal charm and urbanity," putting a certain austerity in his character down to his New England background, and saying that it "strengthened the weight of his opinions." — Jacqueline Banerjee.
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Bibliography
Payne, E. "Gere, Charles March (1869–1957), artist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Web. 18 January 2021.
Windsor, Alan. Handbook of Modern British Painting, 1900-1980. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1992.
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