Selasa, 31 Juli 2012

A SOCIETY PORTRAIT ARTIST




Self Portrait
Gathered by User:Dcoetzee
Source National Portrait Gallery, London
From en.wikipedia.org


Self Portrait
From portraitsofpainters.blogspot.com


The son of Irish immigrants, Shannon was born in Auburn, New York. In 1870 he moved with his family to Saint Catherine's, Ontario where he displayed early artistic talent so much so that his father sent him to study art at the South Kensington School in London (now the Royal College of Art). There at the age of 18 he won the gold medal in the annual competition of all the art schools in the United Kingdom. He was immediately commissioned by Queen Victoria to paint the portraits of the Hon. Horatio Stopford and Mrs Henry Bourke (both now in the Royal Collection), which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1881 and 1882 respectively.
(Taylor Gallery, London)


Violet, Duchess of Rutland
From uniquearts.ltd.uk


On the Dunes (Lady Shannon and Kitty)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Gift of John Gellatly From liveinternet.ru


William Fisher Favell
Surgeon of Sheffield Infirmary
Collection: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust
From bbc.co.uk


Michaelmas
From artmight.com


In The Springtime
From onokart.wordpress.com


Young Woman in Blue
From xaxor.com


Lady Barber in a Landscape
Collection: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
From bbc.co.uk


Martha Constance Hattie Onions (1869–1933, foundress of the Barber Institute) married the property developer Henry Barber in 1893. They moved into the eighteenth-century Culham Court on the Thames in the same year. The grounds overlooking the river appear as a backdrop for this full-length portrait in which she is accompanied by her two Yorkshire terriers. The Barber collection contains more than twenty other portraits of Lady Barber, many commissioned as gifts for her husband. (bbc.co.uk)
Based on his early success Shannon decided to stay in London where he became a noted society portrait artist. By 1892 he was so successful that he was able to purchase a substantial studio in Holland Park Road where on and off he spent the rest of his life. He was elected an associate of the London Academy of Arts in 1897.
(art-seeker.blogspot.com)


The Flower Girl
Collection Tate
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1901
From tate.org.uk


"The Flower Girl" was painted while the artist and his family were on holiday at Eastbourne in 1900. The woman was a flower girl whom they met regularly every morning on their way down to the beach; she consented to sit to Shannon in her ordinary working clothes and is shown nursing her baby. The artist's daughter Kitty recalls that her father told the flower girl to come ‘exactly as you are, baby, basket of flowers, the white blouse with the big black spots and old battered straw hat’. (tate.org.uk)
Shannon became one of the leading portrait painters in London. He was one of the first members of the New English Art Club, a founder member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and in 1897 was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and RA in 1909. His picture, "The Flower Girl", was bought in 1901 for the National Gallery of British Art. Shannon has paintings in the collection of a several British institutions including Sheffield, Derby Art Gallery, Glasgow Museum and Bradford Museum.
(Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
In 1904 he went with his wife and daughter Kitty for the first of three extended stays in America. There he was very prolific and had three one-man exhibitions at M Knoedler and Co in New York in 1905, 1906 and 1907. He was President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1910 and in 1922 renounced his U.S. citizenship in order to accept the Knighthood that was given him in recognition of his talents as a portrait artist. He died in 1923 at the age of 61. His work is represented in many major museums including the Metropolitan in New York.
(art-seeker.blogspot.com)


A SOCIETY PORTRAIT ARTIST




Self Portrait
Gathered by User:Dcoetzee
Source National Portrait Gallery, London
From en.wikipedia.org


Self Portrait
From portraitsofpainters.blogspot.com


The son of Irish immigrants, Shannon was born in Auburn, New York. In 1870 he moved with his family to Saint Catherine's, Ontario where he displayed early artistic talent so much so that his father sent him to study art at the South Kensington School in London (now the Royal College of Art). There at the age of 18 he won the gold medal in the annual competition of all the art schools in the United Kingdom. He was immediately commissioned by Queen Victoria to paint the portraits of the Hon. Horatio Stopford and Mrs Henry Bourke (both now in the Royal Collection), which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1881 and 1882 respectively.
(Taylor Gallery, London)


Violet, Duchess of Rutland
From uniquearts.ltd.uk


On the Dunes (Lady Shannon and Kitty)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Gift of John Gellatly From liveinternet.ru


William Fisher Favell
Surgeon of Sheffield Infirmary
Collection: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust
From bbc.co.uk


Michaelmas
From artmight.com


In The Springtime
From onokart.wordpress.com


Young Woman in Blue
From xaxor.com


Lady Barber in a Landscape
Collection: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
From bbc.co.uk


Martha Constance Hattie Onions (1869–1933, foundress of the Barber Institute) married the property developer Henry Barber in 1893. They moved into the eighteenth-century Culham Court on the Thames in the same year. The grounds overlooking the river appear as a backdrop for this full-length portrait in which she is accompanied by her two Yorkshire terriers. The Barber collection contains more than twenty other portraits of Lady Barber, many commissioned as gifts for her husband. (bbc.co.uk)
Based on his early success Shannon decided to stay in London where he became a noted society portrait artist. By 1892 he was so successful that he was able to purchase a substantial studio in Holland Park Road where on and off he spent the rest of his life. He was elected an associate of the London Academy of Arts in 1897.
(art-seeker.blogspot.com)


The Flower Girl
Collection Tate
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1901
From tate.org.uk


"The Flower Girl" was painted while the artist and his family were on holiday at Eastbourne in 1900. The woman was a flower girl whom they met regularly every morning on their way down to the beach; she consented to sit to Shannon in her ordinary working clothes and is shown nursing her baby. The artist's daughter Kitty recalls that her father told the flower girl to come ‘exactly as you are, baby, basket of flowers, the white blouse with the big black spots and old battered straw hat’. (tate.org.uk)
Shannon became one of the leading portrait painters in London. He was one of the first members of the New English Art Club, a founder member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and in 1897 was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and RA in 1909. His picture, "The Flower Girl", was bought in 1901 for the National Gallery of British Art. Shannon has paintings in the collection of a several British institutions including Sheffield, Derby Art Gallery, Glasgow Museum and Bradford Museum.
(Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
In 1904 he went with his wife and daughter Kitty for the first of three extended stays in America. There he was very prolific and had three one-man exhibitions at M Knoedler and Co in New York in 1905, 1906 and 1907. He was President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1910 and in 1922 renounced his U.S. citizenship in order to accept the Knighthood that was given him in recognition of his talents as a portrait artist. He died in 1923 at the age of 61. His work is represented in many major museums including the Metropolitan in New York.
(art-seeker.blogspot.com)


Sabtu, 28 Juli 2012

IMPRESSIONIST STYLE





Mother and Child
From Artrenewal.org


Carrying the corn
From goldenagepaintings.blogspot.com


Open Air Market Scene
From goldenagepaintings.blogspot.com


Leccion de ganchilo
From insht.es


Bringing In Fish Dieppe
From xaxor.com


Dieppe
From xaxor.com


Dieppe (detail)
Images from fineartpartnership.com


The Drapery Market, Britanny
From stanfordfineart.net


WILLIAM LEE-HANKEY R.E. (Chester 1869 – 1952 London) was an English painter and etcher of figure studies, landscapes and harbour scenes. He left school to work as a designer but later studied painting in Paris. From 1904 he spent long periods painting in France and developed a very attractive impressionist style in his oil painting.

He was a highly regarded and successful artist in his lifetime and was elected to full membership of all the following:
Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
Royal Institute of Watercolor Painters
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolor
He was also President of the London Sketch Club
Served in the Artist’s Rifles 1914 – 1919
Vice President of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolor
(raynerfineart.co.uk)


Le Repas
From drawingsandprints.com


A Cottage Toilette
Drypoint
From allinsongallery.com


Mother's Little Boy
Etching and Drypoint
From raynerfineart.co.uk


The Refugees
Behind the front line at Étaples in 1914
Source neartexchange.com
From Wikipedia


It was Hankey's black and white and colored etchings of the people of Étaples, several developed from paintings, which gained him a reputation as 'one of the most gifted of the figurative printmakers working in original drypoint during the first thirty years of the 20th century'. One that is particularly striking for its stylistic presentation was "The Refugees", above, his contribution to raising awareness of the consequences for ordinary people of the German invasion of France and Belgium in 1914.
(Wikipedia)


Sorrow
From allinsongallery.com


Three Generations
From allinsongallery.com


The First Born
From elizabethharvey-lee.com


Already established as a watercolour painter, WILLIAM LEE-HANKEY R.E. took up etching in 1904. He took an early interest in colour prints, often printing two editions from his plates, one in monochrome and one in colour. HEe was a founder member of the Society of Graver-Printers in Colour, 1909-10, and the Society’s Secretary. Some years later, with Nelson Dawson, he organised a School of Colour Printing in Hammersmith.
His early prints are in aquatint, while his later works are generally in drypoint. For aquatint, rather than the more usual resin ground, he experimented with ‘textile’ grounds, impressing textured muslin or other material, even heavily textured paper, into a soft ground. Prints such as “The First-Born”, above, from early in his etching career, are scarce today.
(elizabethharvey-lee.com)


IMPRESSIONIST STYLE





Mother and Child
From Artrenewal.org


Carrying the corn
From goldenagepaintings.blogspot.com


Open Air Market Scene
From goldenagepaintings.blogspot.com


Leccion de ganchilo
From insht.es


Bringing In Fish Dieppe
From xaxor.com


Dieppe
From xaxor.com


Dieppe (detail)
Images from fineartpartnership.com


The Drapery Market, Britanny
From stanfordfineart.net


WILLIAM LEE-HANKEY R.E. (Chester 1869 – 1952 London) was an English painter and etcher of figure studies, landscapes and harbour scenes. He left school to work as a designer but later studied painting in Paris. From 1904 he spent long periods painting in France and developed a very attractive impressionist style in his oil painting.

He was a highly regarded and successful artist in his lifetime and was elected to full membership of all the following:
Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
Royal Institute of Watercolor Painters
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolor
He was also President of the London Sketch Club
Served in the Artist’s Rifles 1914 – 1919
Vice President of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolor
(raynerfineart.co.uk)


Le Repas
From drawingsandprints.com


A Cottage Toilette
Drypoint
From allinsongallery.com


Mother's Little Boy
Etching and Drypoint
From raynerfineart.co.uk


The Refugees
Behind the front line at Étaples in 1914
Source neartexchange.com
From Wikipedia


It was Hankey's black and white and colored etchings of the people of Étaples, several developed from paintings, which gained him a reputation as 'one of the most gifted of the figurative printmakers working in original drypoint during the first thirty years of the 20th century'. One that is particularly striking for its stylistic presentation was "The Refugees", above, his contribution to raising awareness of the consequences for ordinary people of the German invasion of France and Belgium in 1914.
(Wikipedia)


Sorrow
From allinsongallery.com


Three Generations
From allinsongallery.com


The First Born
From elizabethharvey-lee.com


Already established as a watercolour painter, WILLIAM LEE-HANKEY R.E. took up etching in 1904. He took an early interest in colour prints, often printing two editions from his plates, one in monochrome and one in colour. HEe was a founder member of the Society of Graver-Printers in Colour, 1909-10, and the Society’s Secretary. Some years later, with Nelson Dawson, he organised a School of Colour Printing in Hammersmith.
His early prints are in aquatint, while his later works are generally in drypoint. For aquatint, rather than the more usual resin ground, he experimented with ‘textile’ grounds, impressing textured muslin or other material, even heavily textured paper, into a soft ground. Prints such as “The First-Born”, above, from early in his etching career, are scarce today.
(elizabethharvey-lee.com)


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