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Fred
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Fred Yates was born in 1922 and grew up in Urmston,
a suburb of Manchester. He was a clerk in an insurance company
until the outbreak of the 2nd World War when he served in the
Grenadier Guards until 1945. He then returned to
Manchester. Fred began to paint pictures and
enrolled on a teachers' training course at the Bournemouth College
of Art. In 1950 he won a scholarship to Rome and Florence, and in
1969 gave up teaching and moved down to Cornwall where he put all
his time and energy into painting. However he never forgot his
upbringing in Manchester and some of his paintings reflect this
city. He is now painting in France where he
now lives and his paintings can be found in many private and
public collections e.g. The Brighton and Hove Gallery, the
University of Warwick, The Torquay Art Gallery, the Russell Coates
Gallery in Bournemouth, and Liverpool University.
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