Sylvia Priestland (
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Maiden name
Rhodes
Short biography
Sylvia Priestland lived in between Carfury, Penwith and Hampstead Garden Suburb, London. Priestland was an artist trained at Hornsey School of Art and the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. It was in Oxford that she met her future husband, Gerald Priestland, the broadcaster and foreign correspondent. Together they wrote and illustrated several books on Cornwall.
Works in our collections
Author
West of Hayle River (1980)
Priestlands' Cornwall (1992)
Date of birth
17 May 1924
Date of death
14 January 2004
Collections (people)