John Anthony Park studied in Cornwall with Julius Olsson and in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. He served in World War I. In 1933, he was elected member of the Royal Society of British Artists, and he was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters from 1945 to 1958. He lived in St Ives for most of his life and then settled in Brixham in Devon in 1954. He painted primarily scenes of Cornwall and Exmoor. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1905. He was elected honorary member of the Salon de Paris in 1923 and won a bronze medal in 1924.
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London (Tate Collection): Snow Falls in the Harbour of St Ives (1940, oil on canvas); Snow Falls on Exmoor (1939, oil on panel)