Edward Leslie Badham RBA
ARTIST: Edward Leslie Badham RBA (1873-1944) British
TITLE: “Lamb House Rye East Sussex”
SIGNED: lower left
MEDIUM: oil on board
SIZE: 29cm x 24cm incl frame
CONDITION: very good
PRICE: £380
DETAIL: Born in London in 1873, Badham studied at the Clapham School of Art, the South Kensington School and the Slade. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and was elected to the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1940. He exhibited frequently in London, at the Royal Academy and elsewhere.
He moved to St Leonards in 1905, and took up a teaching post at Hastings School of Art in 1915. In 1922, he was invited to study Hastings Museum’s sketches of the town between 1820-1840 by William Henry Brooke, and to compile a contemporary record of Hastings to be shown in an exhibition ‘A Century’s Changes in Old Hastings’. He continued to record the streets of the Old Town, holding a further exhibition in 1935. Badham’s house suffered a direct hit in a bombing raid on 12 March, 1944, and he died in hospital two days later. His only daughter, Dorothy May Badham was also killed. A large collection of his paintings survive because they were moved to the Museum for safekeeping at the beginning of the war.
