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Evan Walters (1893-1951)was a Welsh painter who worked both in Llangyfelach, Swansea and Hampstead, North London. BIOGRAPHY Walters was born in 1893 in the village of Mynyddbach, near Swansea, the son of a carpenter and publican, Walters and Elizabeth Walters (nee.)He was the youngest of four surviving children; a sister born after him died in 1899. Walters had a happy childhood, singing in the choir of St. David's Llangyfelach and attending the local school where he excelled at drawing. Walters left school in 1906, at the age of thirteen, to work as apprentice painter and decorator and the same year he enrolled as a evening student at the Swansea Schol of Art ( now part of the University of Wales, Trinity St. David's)