Pettinger | John Frederick | 1877-1939

John Frederick Pettinger was born in Yorkshire in 1877. He studied at the York School of Art and the London College of Art. He began working at the Leicester College of Art in 1904, teaching classes in figure composition, painters' and decorators' work and painting and drawing from life. From 1919 he was part of the newly formed Department of Drawing and Painting, Decoration and Design. In 1931 this was altered to the Department of Draughtsmanship and Painting, and Pettinger was made Head of Department. He retired in 1933, however, and died in 1939 at the age of 62.