Julius A R A Olsson

Julius Olsson was born in 1864 in London. Self-trained as a painter, he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890, and in the same year settled in St. Ives where he remained for twenty years. He established a reputation as a painter of the Cornish coast and seascapes and was elected A.R.A. in 1914 and R.A. in 1920. During the First World War, he served as lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He died in Ireland in 1942.

From the guide to the Julius Olsson collection, [1916], (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)