Robert Sadler 1909-2001
Robert Sadler was a British artist who began life in Newmarket, Suffolk. He was the son of a racehorse trainer who learned to ride and paint horses from a young age.
He joined the RAF in 1930 and was a pilot with the Cambridge University air squadron.
Sadler always had a passion for art and wherever he was working in the world throughout his RAF career he attended art courses and studied constantly.
He had an illustrious career in the RAF, where he became a station commander in Lincolnshire, an air attaché to the British embassy in Copenhagen and then he moved to the USA in 1953 where he took up the position of representative on the NATO joint chiefs of staff intelligence committee, during this time he also attended the Corcoran school of art in Washington DC.
He returned to the UK in 1955, retired from the RAF, “to devote the rest of my life to painting” in Newmarket where his life began.
Sadler moved to Aldeburgh in Suffolk in 1964, built a studio at 39, The terrace, where he lived and had a long and distinguished career as an artist exhibiting world wide in the most esteemed galleries.
He had an annual studio exhibition almost every year between 1965 and the year of his death in 2001.
His work is now exhibited in various galleries and is in numerous collections worldwide.
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