BELLEROCHE, ALBERT de (1864-1944), painter and lithographer;
b. 1864 at Swansea and brought up by his stepfather, W.H.V. Millbank. Sir Frank Brangwyn (see below), his friend and staunch admirer of his work, bought for Brussels Museum the artist's ‘The Fortune Teller’. Belleroche presented to the National Museum of Wales a collection of his works, including a full-length portrait of his mother. He devised a method of detecting forged watermarks in 1915. He d. 14 July 1944, at Rustington, Sussex. He and his wife Emilie Julie Visseaux had 2 sons and a daughter.
Bibliography:
- S. Wales Echo and Express, 17 Aug. 1944;
- Www.
Author:
Rev. Thomas Mardy Rees, (1871-1953), Neath
