July 22, 1903

According to a Guardian retrospective:

For years Eric Ravilious (July 22, 1903 to September 2, 1942) was dismissed as a mere craftsman rather than an important mid-century artist...The past decade has seen a change in attitudes...... [H]is Englishness borrowed from modernism and surrealism.....

Their point is the original assessment of Ravilious as a remnant of the arts and crafts movement overlooked the significant integration of this artist into a modernist mainstream.
They describe a person always internally at home:

Eric Ravilious had a predilection for the homely and the humorous. He was, he said, "inordinately fond of tea" and his favourite author was PG Wodehouse. Both his work – as a painter, illustrator and designer – and his personality reveal a complete lack of artistic angst. Helen Binyon, an art school contemporary as well as Ravilious's first biographer and his lover, described him as "gay and easy and ready for anything", to the point where "friends thought of him as a butterfly".

..... [A]n examination of Ravilious's output in various fields, from his woodcuts, book illustrations and murals, via his work for Wedgwood potteries and his fabric designs to his pictures for private collectors and those he made as an official war artist [allows a sophisticated reassessment.] It was his work as a war artist that cut short his life.

And here is the Ravilious's rendering of a fellow artist, his friend Edward Bawden: