WOODRUFFE, Charles
Charles Woodruffe was baptised at St Mary's Church, Woodbridge, Suffolk on 7 May 1843, son of William Woodruffe, a mariner, and his wife Sarah Ann. In 1881 he was a house painter living at Angel Lane, Woodbridge with his 71 year old widowed mother Sarah Ann. He married at St Michael's Church, Framlingham, Suffolk on 23 July 1883 Jane Rivers, 3rd daughter of John Rivers, a farmer at Framlingham and in 1891 a 47 year old house painter living at the Thoroughfare, Woodbridge with his 42 year old wife Jane, a fish and vegetable seller, their 6 year old son Alfred and Charles's father-in-law 71 year old John Rivers. Charles Woodruffe died at 75 Cumberland Street, Woodbridge on 2 January 1934. In an eulogy in the Woodbridge Reporter of 1 February 1934 is noted 'due to his early life at sea, he became so at sketching, some of his seascapes were really very good, especially, as he told me, he had never had a lesson...a study of his of the old Victory hangs in Portsmouth'.
Works by This Artist
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Cattle in a LaneOil on canvas laid on panel
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