Painter born in Ulverston, Cumbria the son of a woodcarver who taught locally. Henry studied at Barrow School of Art and in 1906 was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where his abilities won him a travelling scholarship to Italy where he was to return to paint on many occasions. He taught at West Bromwich School of Art, and at Bath Academy and became Vice-President at Winchester College of Art. He retired in 1947 to Coniston Cumbria and showed, not for the first time with the Lake Artists Society. He showed at the Royal Academy and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool his son Henry Wilkinson was an engraver and sometime silversmith.

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