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Edward Wakeford: Edward Felix Wakeford, ARA (1914-1973) was a painter in oils mainly of coastal and urban scenes and he also produced posters for Shell and BP. He was born in the Isle of Man, and studied at the Chelsea College of Art and at the Royal College of Art in Kensington.  He served in the Army in World War II and thereafter taught at Chelsea School of Art. Edward Wakeford exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1957, being elected ARA 1969, and with the New English Art Club, and he also had one-man shows in London with the Hanover Gallery and Brook Street Gallery. His work is held in a number of public collections including The British Council, Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead, the National Motor Museum Trust, and Doncaster Art Gallery.  In October 1973 a memorial exhibition was held at the Fieldbourne Galleries in London and, in 1986, his work was shown at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal. He lived in Chelsea.