1905 Edward Burra, English painter, illustrator and stage designer, who died on 22 October 1976 -- As a student at the Chelsea Polytechnic (1921-1923) and the Royal College of Art (1923-1925) he became a figure draftsman. He spent much time in France, painting intricately detailed urban scenes, which depicted the low life of Toulon and Marseille. Works such as the watercolor
Toulon (1927) were done in a meticulously finished and vividly colored decorative style. Burra usually used watercolor and tempera and occasionally collage or oil paints. He painted sardonic genre pictures and of scenes of violence and destruction; also landscapes and still life, often with macabre overtones. He traveled in Europe, the US and Mexico. He made designs for the Camargo Society's ballet Rio Grande 1931 and for several Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden productions.