Norman Wilkinson (1878–1971) by Howard Coster, 1939 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Paul Rennie
Wilkinson, Norman (1878–1971), marine and poster artist and creator of dazzle camouflage, was born on 24 November 1878 at 2 Eastbourne Terrace, Cambridge, one of the four children of Thomas Collins Wilkinson (b. 1853), music teacher, who left the family in the boy's childhood, and his wife, ...
