page_title: Otway McCannell
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Otway McCannell / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: GWENNOLAÏK AND NOLA - Illustration from Legends &amp; Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence, illustrated by W. Otway Cannell.
context_page_description: Otway McCannell FRSA RBA, also known as William Otway McCannell and W. Otway Cannell, was a British painter, illustrator, writer and Principal of Farnham School of Art.
context_section_description: McCannell was born in the seaside resort of New Brighton in Wallasey, Cheshire, England on 26 December 1883.
  After attending Nelson College in New Zealand in 1895, in 1905 he won an art scholarship at the Royal College of Art in London.
  In the late 1920s McCannell moved to Farnham, England and was Principal of Farnham School of Art (later merged with Guildford School of Art and becoming the West Surrey College of Art and Design). His students included Geoffrey Burnand. McCannell retired in 1948.
  McCannell frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy and other European centres. He exhibited The Devil's Chessboard at the Royal Academy in 1924.
  He was a Fellow of Free Painters and Sculptors, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Royal Society of British Artists.
  A number of photographic portraits by Bassano of the artist are in the National Portrait Gallery.
caption: Illustration from Legends and Romances of Brittany (1917)
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