Brief Biography-Philip Wilson Steer from Birkenhead, Liverpool, was a renowned landscape impressionist painter. He also painted portraits as his father, Philip, was a portrait painter. He first studied at eighteen in the South Kensington School of Art, and from there, he went to the Académie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts Paris.
He was a New English Art Club founder and taught at the Slade School of Fine Art. While he lived in London, he regularly painted in the English countryside during the summer months.
He gained the Order of Merit for his paintings of the Royal Navy, which the British War Memorials Committee commissioned him to do during the first world war.