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charles Chaplin (British, 1907-1987) Night signed lower right Charles Chaplin 1946 etching 29 x 40cm exhibited: royal Academy, 1946 (letter refers); and the Lane, Mundon signed lower right C H A Chaplin 1931 etching 17 x 21cm; and r B Allen (British, 20th Century) Rickmansworth, 1947 signed lower right R B Allen etching 18 x 23cm (3) charles Chaplin (1907 - 1987) was an English artist, engraver, and printmaker. You teach me a little about engraving and I will teach you a little about art was the remarkable offer made by Robert Austin to his new student, Charles Chaplin. Austin, an eminent engraver himself, had become Chaplins tutor at the Royal College of Art in September 1947. Chaplin, a mature student, was a printers commercial engraver; he was also an amateur artist whose prints had already received some recognition and had been hung at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions. He had, however, had little formal education or art training. Austins encouragement was a major influence on Chaplins subsequent career as an artist. The years before the Second World War cover Chaplins birth into a large working-class family, his early love of drawing, the accident which left him with only one eye, and his apprenticeship in a large printing works. After the war, he enrolled as a Saturday student at the Royal College of Art and, thereafter, his style developed significantly. Following his retirement from the printing industry, his prolific output continued unabated, encouraged by new contacts in Sweden and Canada. A shy man who loved the countryside and recorded its trees, lakes, its farmyard, his family life is revealed in the detail of his work. his favourite technique was line engraving on copper, although he used several techniques during his career
