Roland Pym
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Roland Vivian Pym[1] (12 June 1910 ― 12 January 2006) was a British painter, illustrator and theatrical designer. Known for his elegant romanticism, Pym's work celebrated fashionable London society as well as country life, and drew comparisons to the more prominent Rex Whistler.[2]
Born in Cheveley, a village just outside Newmarket,[3] Pym was the son of Sir Charles Pym and his wife Violet Catherine, only daughter of Frederick Lubbock, of Emmetts, Kent, a son of Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Catherine Gurney, daughter of John Gurney of Gurney's Bank. His grandfather was Horace Pym,[4] and he was a great-great-grandson of Admiral Sir Samuel Pym.[2]
Pym and his parents moved to Brasted in Kent when he was a young child, after his father inherited the family home, Foxwold.[3] After education at Ludgrove and Eton, he studied at the Slade School of Art and specialised in theatre design, with Osbert Lancaster (two years his senior) as one of his fellow students.[3]