Glynn Philpot, The Skyscraper, 1916
1884-1937
Philpot started his career as a painter of society portraits in
the early years of the 20th century. He worked in a
similar style to the influential portraitist John Singer Sargeant
until the early 1920s, when he developed a more sombre style that
proved very popular with English society.
In the late 1920s Philpot's style
changed. He became aware that his art was becoming out of date, and
he adopted a more modern style of painting inspired by Picasso and
other leading Modernist artists. This new style lost him many of
his former clients, but won him critical acclaim.