Philip Wilson Steer OM (28 Dec 1860-18 March 1942) was an English artist. Steer was born in Birkenhead, the son of the portrait painter Philip Steer (1810-1871). After finding the examinations of the Civil Service too demanding, he became an artist in 1878. He studied at the Gloucester School of Art and then from 1880 to 1881 at the South Kensington Drawing Schools. He was rejected by the Royal Academy of Art and so studied in Paris between 1882 and 1884. Wikipedia
Mackintosh and his wife Margaret, rented a house from their friend Philip Wilson Steer, who owned a place in Walberswick by the name of Valley Farm, which was right next to the Bell Inn. norfolkcoast.co.uk/pasttimes/pt_charlesrenniemacintosh.htm
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