Charles Napier Hemy
Charles Napier Hemy RA (born May 24, 1841 in Newcastle , North East England , † September 30, 1917 in Falmouth , Cornwall ) was a British marine painter and representative of the Newlyn School , an artist colony of the late 19th and early 20th centuries .
life and work
Charles Napier Hemy was born in Newcastle, but his family emigrated to Australia in 1852 . After two years in Melbourne , Napier Hemy returned to England in 1855, where he first worked on a ship and then in a monastery. Soon Hemy turned to painting and studied under William Bell Scott at the Newcastle School of Art . His two brothers Thomas and Bernard Hemy also became artists. After his marriage in 1866 he continued his studies in Antwerp under the guidance of Hendrik Leysfort . In 1865 the Royal Academy of Arts exhibited one of his submitted works for the first time. Hemy moved to London in 1870 and finally to Falmouth in 1881, where he stayed until the end of his life. In 1890 he was elected an associate member of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colors and in 1897 a full member. In the same year the Royal Academy accepted him as an associate member and in 1910 as a full member. Hemy died in 1917 of pneumonia that he contracted while painting outdoors in poor weather conditions.
Hemy was best known for his marine painting. His earliest paintings in this genre show coastal scenes in the strict Pre-Raphaelite style . In the 1870s, his technique relaxed increasingly, and by the 1880s, Hemy achieved the position of accomplished artist, gaining public and institutional recognition. His friends included well-known artists from this period such as James Tissot , Edgar Degas , James McNeill Whistler and Henry Scott Tuke . At first he also devoted himself to history painting and landscape painting , but after moving to Falmouth in 1881 he limited himself essentially to depicting the sea, the coastal landscape and fishing. Especially in the 1880s, Hemy also created a few illustrations for travelogues in magazines. Most of his paintings are now in private hands and traded in galleries. Few museums like the Tate Gallery , Walker Art Gallery and the National Gallery of New South Wales in Australia have bought his works so far.
literature
- Margaret Powell: Master of the Sea: Charles Napier Hemy , Alison Hodge 2004, ISBN 978-0-906720-37-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Napier Hemy, RA in the database of the Royal Academy of Arts , English, accessed on May 22, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hemy, Charles Napier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English late impressionist painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newcastle , North East England |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1917 |
| Place of death | Falmouth , Cornwall |