Ronald Horton

Ronald Horton was an artist, collector and highly successful Head of the Art Teacher Training Department at Brighton College of Art from 1944 to 1966. Having grown up in Brighton, he studied under Ginnett  at the College from 1919 to 1923, as had his elder brother Percy Horton who went on to be the Ruskin Master of Drawing at the University of Oxford. A student contemporary of Charles Knight, he then went up to the Royal College of Art where he studied under William Rothenstein from 1925 to 1929. Highly active artistically, Horton also worked for the architectural sculptor William Aumonier, later assisting Rex Whistler on murals and stage sets between 1930 and 1936.

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