George Elgar Hicks

Self-Portrait (George Elgar Hicks, 1862)

A Cloud With A Silver Lining , 1890

George Elgar Hicks (born March 13, 1824 in Lymington , Hampshire , † July 4, 1914 in Odiham , Hampshire) was an English painter .

Hicks first studied medicine and later switched to painting. For this reason he attended the art school of Bloomsbury from 1843 and switched to the Royal Academy of Arts in London the following year . In 1855 he achieved his artistic breakthrough with his painting Horch, the Lark, Sings at the Gate of Heaven .

reception

Hick's pictures can be assigned to genre painting and almost exclusively show scenes from popular life. Lt. Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon are the pictures "... of deep sensation and excellent effect of the coloring, but in the drawing often fleeting and not without errors".

Works (selection)

Listen, the lark sings at the gate of heaven . 1855.
The willow branches . 1857.
The bank's dividend day . 1859.
The post office .
The Billingsgate market in London .
The change of residence .
The new hope .
Unlucky day . 1871.
Mother and child . 1873.
Ruth , the Moabite woman . 1874.
The return from harvesting corn . 1876.
The fisherman's wife and the hunter's daughter . 1877.
Forget-me-not .
Faith, love, hope . 1878.

literature

Malcolm Dunkeld: Madox Brown, Hicks, and Clausen: The Construction Site in Victorian High Art (PDF). In: Karl-Eugen Kurrer , Werner Lorenz , Volker Wetzk (eds.): Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History . Neunplus, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-936033-31-1 , pp. 507-516.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Hicks, George Elgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 13, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lymington, Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH	4th July 1914
Place of death	Odiham , Hampshire