Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (sometimes 'Wilfried') RA (1870-1951) was an Impressionist British painter, elected to the Royal Academy in 1932.
Biography
De Glehn's father was Alexander de Glehn of Sydenham, London. His mother was French.
Louise Creighton, a women's rights activist and author, and Alfred de Glehn, a French steam locomotive designer, were Alexander's sister and brother.
Wilfried von Glehn (he changed his name in May 1917) was born in Sydenham in south-east London. After schooling at Brighton College with his brother Louis, he studied art at the South Kensington School of Art, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
He was then hired by Edwin Austin Abbey and John Singer Sargent to assist them on their Boston Public Library mural project at Morgan Hall (c.1890-1893).
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