Drawings and engravings at the XXI Gallery, London
Exhibits drawings and engravings at the XXI Gallery in London, and again there in 1928. While still a student he builds a name as a fine printmaker, and commercial printmaking remains his main income through the late 1920s; his early pastoral prints show the influence of Samuel Palmer, mediated by the older etcher F. L. Griggs.
1925–1933 · Loopbaan
the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
Elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1925; expelled from it in 1933.
December 1926
Converts to Catholicism
In December 1926, the year he graduates from Goldsmiths, he converts to Catholicism.
29 December 1926
Marries Kathleen Barry
Marries Kathleen Barry (1905–1991), a fellow student at Goldsmiths; other accounts date the wedding to 1927. The couple were inseparable.
![Ginevra de' Benci [obverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/8f29e3c9-a289-4d53-abf0-31a66e9e98fa/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
![Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/ff62e8d0-45c4-498f-ad36-6358de827e04/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
