Snuffbox
Medium
Decorative Arts
Classification
Decorative Arts
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of William Cost Johnson
Accession Number
1918.3.4
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Unidentified (English)
Simon English, born in Berlin in 1959, is a British contemporary artist who lives and works in London. His early years were marked by personal loss, as his father, a British soldier, died in a car accident when English was just two and a half years old, after which the family relocated to Dorset. Drawing became an escape from a young age, and he pursued formal training with a foundation course at ...