Noel Harry Leaver

1889-1951

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This photograph of Noel Leaver was taken during the Civic Arts Week, October 1950 in the Central Library, Burnley. The painting (among others) was on loan from the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, the title "A farm in Sussex" by D. Grant.
Left to right are - H. Thornton, Principal of Burnley Art School, Alderman E. Broderick, Mayor of Burnley, Noel Leaver, Frank Lambert, Director of Walker Art Gallery and G. Mayer-Morton, lecturer

From The Leaver Website -
Noel Harry Leaver was born in Austwick, Yorkshire in 1889 but is better known as a Burnley artist, the town in which he lived and worked for most of his life. He is most famous as the painter of distinctive North African views or ‘Easterns’, although his work includes a much wider range of landscapes, town views, interiors and even still life