Editing Eric Ravilious (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:Ravilious1925.png|thumb|upright|''May'', woodcut of the [[Long Man of Wilmington]] by Eric Ravilious, 1925.]]
Eric William Ravilious was born on 22 July 1903 in [[Churchfield Road]], [[Acton, London|Acton]], London, the son of Emma (''née'' Ford) and Frank Ravilious.<ref name="Powers2012">{{cite book|last=Powers|first=Alan|title=Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h86sbcpAROEC&pg=PA143|date=15 July 2012|publisher=Philip Wilson Publishers|isbn=978-1-78130-001-5|page=143}}</ref><ref name="Russell2015">{{cite book|last=Russell|first=James|title=Ravilious: The Watercolours|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G-rIBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|year=2015|publisher=Philip Wilson Publishers|isbn=978-1-78130-032-9|page=1}}</ref> When he was young the family moved to [[Eastbourne]] in Sussex, where his parents ran an antiques shop.<ref name=con14 >Constable, 1982, p. 14.</ref> 

Ravilious was educated at Eastbourne Municipal Secondary School for Boys, from September 1914 to December 1919.<ref>Andy Friend, Alan Powers, ''Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship'' (2017), [https://books.google.com/books?id=M1fGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT469 p. 469]</ref> It was later renamed as Eastbourne Grammar School. In 1919 he won a scholarship to Eastbourne School of Art and in 1922 another to study at the Design School at the [[Royal College of Art]]. There, he became a close friend of [[Edward Bawden]]<ref name=con14/> (his 1930 painting of Bawden at work is in the collection of the college)<ref name="YP">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/edward-bawden-working-in-his-studio-147026|title=Edward Bawden Working in His Studio|publisher=[[Art UK]]|access-date=16 July 2014}}</ref> and, from 1924, studied under [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]].<ref name="con16"/> Nash, an enthusiast for [[wood-engraving]], encouraged him in the technique, and was impressed enough by his work to propose him for membership of the [[Society of Wood Engravers]] in 1925, and helped him to get commissions.<ref name=con17 >Constable, 1982, p. 17.</ref>

In 1925 Ravilious received a travelling scholarship to Italy and visited [[Florence]], [[Siena]], and the hill towns of [[Tuscany]].<ref name=con16>Constable, 1982, p. 16.</ref>