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Early Life and Family
Christopher Campbell was born on the 9th of December 1908, in Dublin. Campbell was one of eight children to his mother and father John and Ellen Campbell. He had four brothers, and three sisters. He grew up on 17 Brian Road, Clontarf. When Christopher was a young child, his father passed away. Before he died, his father worked as a carpenter. Campbell went to school at Christian Brothers at St Mary’s Place in Dublin, and then went on to study at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. While at the school of art, Campbell studied painting under George Atkinson and Patrick Touhy. In the early 1930’s Campbell created a lot of painted and drawn self-portraits. One of Campbell’s 1939 portraits can be found I the National Self-Portrait collection in the University of Limerick. From 1947 until 1951 Campbell taught art at the Kilkenny technical school. He went on to work as an illustrator, contributing work to the Capuchin Annual in 1953 until 1969. In the period 1958-71, he showed mainly stained-glass designs at the RHA. In 1972 Campbell died unmarried in Dublin. A few years later in 1976 an exhibition of his work was presented at the Neptune Gallery, on South William St in Dublin. Campbell’s brothers Laurence was a sculptor and he also studied at the Metropolitan School of Art.