Wells took steps to a varied career

A British subject born in Rio de Janeiro, Reginald Fairfax Wells (1877-1951) studied sculpture at the South Kensington School of Art in the 1890s and then studio pottery at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.

Today considered one of the first true studio potters working on an entirely independent basis, he…

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