Children of Ellen and Lancelot Thompson Glasson

GLASSON

On March 24th, 1981, in hospital, Margaret Ellen Glasson, beloved sister of Sarah Glasson, of Hawthorns, Grantown-on-Spey. Funeral service in St Columba's Church, Grantown-on-Spey, on Monday, March 30, at 11 a.m., thereafter to New Cemetery, Grantown-on-Spey

Captain Lancelot Glasson, Royal Fusiliers, only son of Mr. Lancelot T. Glasson, London, Managing Director of Glasson's Penrith Breweries Ltd., was seriously wounded and had had his left leg amputated at a hospital in France.

exhibited 'The Young Rower', at the Royal Academy of Arts

. . . a talented figure and portrait painter, whose descent from Birket Foster is not widely known, owing to the fact that he preferred to make his own way as an artist in his own right. Captain Lancelot Glasson, MC, was severely wounded in the First World War and had a leg amputated, with the result that he was to suffer pain and discomfort for the rest of his life. His decision to become an artist was taken after the war, when he studied at Heatherley's Art School and the Royal Academy Schools. Lancelot Glasson worked mainly in oils and exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy. His most celebrated painting was 'The Young Rower', which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1932 and attracted immediate attention.

'YOUNG ROWER'

Blackpool Offer for Academy Study Arrives Just Too Late

SOLD FOR £120

Just too late, a telephone call was put through by the Blackpool municipal art gallery yesterday making an offer for "The Young Rower," Lancelot M. Glasson's lovely canvas which has attracted so much attention at the Royal Academy. It had been sold privately for £120.

"The Young Rower" is a beautiful study of a rowing girl wearing shorts and bending over to pull up her rowing socks.

Captain Glasson first exhibited at the Academy in 1928. One of his pictures has been accepted each year since.

Soldier Artist

A good many well-known artists, who took part in the Great War, did so in comfortable staff uniforms and equipped with a sketch book. This was not the case with Mr. Lancelot M. Glasson, the painter, whose "Young Rower" has been acclaimed by many critics as the picture of the year at the Royal Academy. He was in the fighting line with the King's commission and a Sam Browne belt. He was badly wounded in the leg during the Somme fighting, and landed up at the Duchess of Westminster's hospital at Le Touquet. Oddly enough, as I was taking another look at the delightfully English flapper Mr. Glasson immortalizes as the "Young Rower," a lady was admiring the picture. I discovered, however, that her adoration was not entirely unprejudiced. She was a nurse during the War, and Mr. Glasson was one of the officer patients who were under her charge at Le Touquet.

A MASTER CAMOUFLAGER.

CAMOUFLAGE is now an accepted art of war. One of the masters of it is Captain Lancelot M. Glasson, who has really created a very fine and resourceful school of artists in camouflage.

Only a year ago Captain Glasson was represented in the Royal Academy by a delightful work he entitled "Aarabella Resting." Well Arabella might still be resting, but not her painter.

He was for once, an absentee from the Burlington House show this summer, being much too fully occupied in teaching and practising the art of camouflage. Captain Glasson is chief of a large studio "somewhere in England" where many talented young artists are learning how to make things look not what they are.

Regatta painting

A FAMOUS painting called "The Young Rower" is to be displayed during Henley Regatta this year.

Painted in 1932 by Lancelot Glasson, the work will be on display on the University College barge, where it is reputed to have been painted.

House ablaze as woman watches TV

AN 82-year-old Grantown woman sat watching television in a back room unaware that a bedroom and the upstairs floor of her house were ablaze.

Miss Sarah Glasson, Hawthorns, Spey Bridge, was alone in the house when fire broke out.

A motorist, Mr James McLeod, The Beachan, Grantown, and his wife, Cathy, noticed flames darting from a window and drove to a nearby house to raise the alarm.

A police spokesman at Grantown said: "When we and the firemen arrived Miss Glasson was just coming out at the back door. She had been sitting watching television unaware that the house had been on fire for some time."

Two units from Grantown fought for about an hour to bring the blaze under control. A bedroom, the entire upstairs floor and the roof were extensively damaged.

Miss Glasson is staying with friends at Dalnain Bridge until repairs are carried out.