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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Some more I've managed to dig out..... "Bell lived at 6 Peel Street with his wife and son and later his adopted daughter. He worked for most of his life as a mechanic for MGO, a local bus company. His son, Cyril Bell, worked as a dental assistant for Mr Spittle on Cromford Road. His adopted daughter, Maureen Ellis, was from Birmingham but was evacuated at the beginning of World War II. Although Bell worked for most of his life as a mechanic his real passion was art; it was only as Bell was nearing old age that he received recognition for his work and he exhibited at a recognised gallery (Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery) for the first time in 1938, just a few years before his death. Bell's work is now collectable, a coastal oil was sold by Sherwood Forest Fine Arts at exhibition to an American collector for £1,500 a couple of years ago. We have a number of original oil paintings by Bell in our collection (the Sygun Museum of Wales). Bell is listed in the Dictionary of British Art - Volume V - British Artists 1880 - 1940 at page 51." [/quote]
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Another Artist - Bell
replied on: 1/26/2006 11:38:27 PM

Some more I've managed to dig out.....

"Bell lived at 6 Peel Street with his wife and son and later his adopted daughter. He worked for most of his life as a mechanic for MGO, a local bus company. His son, Cyril Bell, worked as a dental assistant for Mr Spittle on Cromford Road. His adopted daughter, Maureen Ellis, was from Birmingham but was evacuated at the beginning of World War II. Although Bell worked for most of his life as a mechanic his real passion was art; it was only as Bell was nearing old age that he received recognition for his work and he exhibited at a recognised gallery (Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery) for the first time in 1938, just a few years before his death. Bell's work is now collectable, a coastal oil was sold by Sherwood Forest Fine Arts at exhibition to an American collector for £1,500 a couple of years ago. We have a number of original oil paintings by Bell in our collection (the Sygun Museum of Wales).

Bell is listed in the Dictionary of British Art - Volume V - British Artists 1880 - 1940 at page 51."

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