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He was selected to exhibit at the Royal Academy when just 19, and continued to exhibit there most years for the rest of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Soper was born on 2 May 1870 in South Hornsey, Middlesex and attended a boarding school in Ramsgate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough Soper had little or no formal training as an artist he began working as an illustrator in Ramsgate, where he became friends with Frank Short, a civil engineer and member of South Kensington School of Art. Short recognised Soper's ability and tutored him from 1902 onwards. Soper quickly developed a reputation as an expert artist and printmaker and began illustrating for books and magazines. By the 1920s, he had developed a recognisable and varied set of skills covering watercolours, wood cutting, engraving, etching and drypoint and had dedicated his art to capturing the lives of manual workers, including farmers, fisherman and shepherds. He realised that this way of life was slowly disappearing, to be replaced by mechanisation and other technology or trades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoper married Ada in 1897 and the couple moved to Harmer Green, near Welwyn in Hertfordshire where he built a house, later known as Wilding. The couple had two daughters: Eva Lilian, born in 1901 and Eileen Alice (1905-1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe older daughter Eva also became an artist, printmaker and modeller although it was younger daughter Eileen who was the more famous of the Soper artists. She had been taught by her father, showed flair and talent in etching, and when 15 became the youngest artist ever to exhibit at the Royal Academy. 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