Louis Wain Fact #45:
Upon graduating from the West London School of Art, he didn't go straight into commercial artwork, and instead became a teacher there. He was apparently quite a poor one, who was too shy to interact with students and himself felt that he was not gaining enough knowledge from the experience.
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