From: mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   Norman Ackroyd, CBE, who has died aged 86, was widely regarded as the   
   finest British etcher of his generation...   
      
   The public were enchanted, and his fellow etchers baffled, by the   
   softness he could conjure from the brutal process of bathing metal in   
   acid   
      
   https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/norman-ackroyd-ob   
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   Ackroyd was born on 26 March 1938 in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He attended   
   Leeds College of Art from 1957 to 1961 and the Royal College of Art,   
   London, from 1961 to 1964, where he studied under Julian Trevelyan.   
   Subsequently, he lived for several years in the United States. He was   
   elected to the Royal Academy of Art in 1988 and appointed Professor of   
   Etching, University of the Arts, in 1994. He was elected Senior Fellow   
   of the Royal College of Art in 2000, and in the 2007 New Year Honours   
   was made CBE for services to Engraving and Printing.   
      
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