:Piper family

The Piper family dynasty of artists started in the 20th century with John Piper{{cite web| url=http://www.geni.com/people/John-Piper/6000000008419818080 | title=John Egerton Christmas Piper (1903–1992) | website=www.geni.com | publisher=Geni] | accessdate=16 February 2014 }} and his wife, the art critic Myfanwy Piper. Their sons Edward and Sebastian Piper were also artists. The sons of Edward and Pru Piper, Luke and Henry Piper, are a painter and sculptor respectively. To quote the art historian Frances Spalding: "In the course of their long partnership, John and Myfanwy Piper created what seems to many observers an ideal way of life, involving children, friends, ... and creativity."

John and Myfanwy Piper lived with their family in the south Buckinghamshire village of Fawley Bottom most of their lives. They moved into a derelict farmhouse and outbuildings there in 1938, which they then restored into a family house and studio.{{cite web| url=http://www.portlandgallery.com/artist/John_Piper/item/all/13079/Fawley_Bottom | title=Fawley Bottom | website=www.portlandgallery.com | publisher=Portland Gallery] | location=London | accessdate=16 February 2014 }} Both stayed there till they died, bringing up their family there. The potter Geoffrey Eastop was a family friend and collaborator, as described in his memoir, producing pottery at the family home in Fawley Bottom.{{cite book|first=Geoffrey | last=Easton | authorlink=Geoffrey Eastop | title=The Piper Years: A memoir | publisher=Zingaro Books | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-9566848-2-0 |url=http://copac.ac.uk/search?isn=%209780956684820&rn=1 }} He also stayed in the family's holiday cottages at Garn Fawr on Strumble Head in Wales, often with the Piper children. The poet John Betjeman was also a family friend.Spalding (2009), pages 99–100. In the mid 20th century, John and Myfanwy Piper were at the centre of English cultural life. She transported her family around using a pony and trap.

In 2007, the extended Piper family exhibited jointly at the Messum's gallery in Cork Street, London.{{cite book| title=The Piper Dynasty: John Piper, Edward Piper, Prue Piper, Luke Piper, Henry Piper | author=Messum's Fine Art (London) | publisher=Messum's Fine Art | location=London | year=2007 |isbn=978-1905883127}}

Charles Alfred Piper (1866–1927) was the father of John Piper and a solicitor.Spalding (2009), pages 5–7, 10, 12–16, 22–23. His father, Charles Christmas Piper, had taken over the family bootmaking business, and was also a partner in a printing and stationery company.John Piper, Anthony West, Secker & Warburg, 1979, p. 14{{Cite web|url=https://eehe.org.uk/?p=25664|title = Piper, John – Epsom & Ewell History Explorer}}

{{main|John Piper (artist)}}

John Egerton Christmas PiperModern English Painters: Wood to Hockney, John Rothenstein, Macdonald and Jane's, 1976, p. 86 (1903–1992) was a leading British artist of the 20th century. Piper used to make artistic expeditions to various parts of the United Kingdom with individual family members and family friends, including his wife Myfanwy, his son and fellow artist Edward Piper, poets John Betjeman and Geoffrey Grigson, and later on the family doctor and friend Alan Hartley.{{cite book| first1=Richard | last1=Ingrams | authorlink1=Richard Ingrams | first2=John | last2=Piper | authorlink2=John Piper (artist) | title=Piper's Places | publisher=Chatto & Windus | location=London | year=1983 | isbn=0-7011-2550-0 | page=14 }}

{{main|Myfanwy Piper}}

Mary Myfanwy Piper (1911–1997), John Piper's wife, was an opera librettist and art critic.

{{main|Edward Piper}}

Edward Blake Christmas Piper (1938–1990), the son of John and Myfanwy Piper, was a painter.

Prue Piper (born 1938) was the wife of Edward Piper and a potter. She studied biochemistry at University College London and later worked as a potter in the village of Marston Bigot.{{cite web| url=http://www.art-in-mind.co.uk/portfolio/prue-piper/ | title=Prue Piper | website=www.art-in-mind.co.uk | publisher=Art-in-Mind] | location=UK | date=2012 | accessdate=23 June 2013 }} She has exhibited at the Aldeburgh Festival, Messum's, Renishaw Hall, and Stonor Park, among other places.

Clarissa Piper (born 1942) was the second child of John and Myfanwy Piper.Spalding (2009), pages 134, 164, 196, 204, 255, 260, 277, 288–289, 317, 341, 354, 387, 392, 406, 412, 465, 486, 493–494, 499–500, 503, 507.

Suzannah Piper (born 1947, Henley-on-Thames) was the third child of John and Myfanwy Piper.Spalding (2009), pages 260, 285, 289–290, 313, 354, 384, 406, 477, 481–482, 493–494, 507.

Sebastian ("Seb") Piper (born 14 August 1950) is the son of John and Myfanwy Piper and the younger brother of Edward Piper.Spalding (2009), pages 288, 309, 313, 354, 386, 406, 439, 459, 493–494, 501–502, 507. He is a painter, musician, and photographer.[http://www.books-by-isbn.com/0-9535571/0953557111-John-Piper-Master-of-Diversity-0-9535571-1-1.html John Piper—Master of Diversity], Henley-on-Thames: River and Rowing Museum, 2000. {{ISBN|978-0-9535571-1-0}}. {{OCLC|55970238}}. (Photographs)

Sebastian Piper's paintings are abstract in style and he holds periodic exhibitions to sell his pictures, especially in Fawley Bottom near Henley-on-Thames. His music is based on synthesisers and he has produced a number of CDs including The Barn. He has collaborated with Gail Rosier[http://www.nightssunlight.co.uk/nspages/tidalwv/twpbios/grosier.htm Gail Rosier], [http://www.nightssunlight.co.uk/ Night's Sunlight], Tidal Wave Theatre. of the Acorn Music-Theatre. He has collaborated with the River and Rowing Museum in Henley.{{cite web |url=http://archive.museophile.org/rrm/piper/ |title=John Piper: Master of Diversity |accessdate=2018-03-25 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235135/http://archive.museophile.org/rrm/piper/ |archivedate=26 September 2007 |df=dmy-all }}, River and Rowing Museum, UK, 2000.

{{main|Luke Piper}}

Luke Piper (born 1966) is the eldest son of Edward and Prue Piper, and is a painter, mainly a watercolourist.Spalding (2009), pages 440, 499, 507.

Henry Piper (born 1969) is also the son of Edward and Prue Piper, the younger brother of Luke Piper, and is a sculptor.Spalding (2009), pages 440, 449.

He studied Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Sussex, UK.

Most of Henry Piper's sculptures consist of assembled pieces of discarded metalwork and other objects, often in the form of faces{{cite news| title=Interiors: A lookout tower that became an artists' retreat | first=Nicole | last=Swengley | newspaper=Daily Telegraph | date=23 May 2013 | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/interiorsandshopping/10073754/Interiors-a-lookout-tower-that-became-an-artists-retreat.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606065018/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/interiorsandshopping/10073754/Interiors-a-lookout-tower-that-became-an-artists-retreat.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=6 June 2013 | accessdate=19 June 2013 }} and figures. He has also undertaken some stone carving. He has exhibited at Beaux Arts (Bath), Messum's gallery in Cork Street, the London Art Fair, the Affordable Art Fair (London),{{cite web| url=http://www.art-in-mind.co.uk/portfolio/henry-piper/ | title=Henry Piper | website=www.art-in-mind.co.uk | publisher=art-in-mind] | location=UK | accessdate=26 January 2014 }} and at venues such as the Henley Festival,{{cite web| url=http://www.henley-festival.co.uk/Programme/Vis-Arts-Feast | title=Festival Gallery: Henry Piper | publisher=Henley Festival | location=UK | accessdate=26 January 2014 }} Renishaw Hall,{{cite web| url=http://www.sitwell.co.uk/piper_footsteps.htm | title=In the footsteps of Piper | location=Renishaw Hall & Gardens, Derbyshire, UK | accessdate=19 June 2013}} Stonor, and elsewhere.

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