Henry Browne Hagreen
Henry Browne Hagreen (born June 20, 1831 in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk , † December 6, 1912 in London ) was a British watercolor painter and drawing teacher at the Royal College of Art .
Life
Hagreen was the son of the furrier and straw hat maker James Hagreen (1782-1831) and his second wife Emma (nee Taylor). He had an older half-brother George Walter (Wat) Hagreen (1811-1866). In August 1850, the 19-year-old artist exhibited a watercolor painting entitled "Ipswich Docks, Late Sunset" at an exhibition by the Suffolk Fine Arts Association in the new lecture hall of the Mechanics' Institute in Ipswich . In 1851 he lived on Tacket Street in Ipswich with the Schumacher Henry Osborn and his family. In the Society of British Arts he exhibited a little later the pictures "The Knife Boy" and "My Own Studio at Ipswich", and in 1856 a work in the Royal Academy of Arts
In 1856, Emma Angelina (née Roe, 16 September 1831-1897), who was almost the same age, married in Ipswich and moved with her to Chelsea in 1861 and to Kensington in 1868. The couple had five children, Henry, Emily, Florence, Mary Ellen, and Leonard. His wife died in 1897.
Hagreen served as a drawing teacher in the architecture class at the Royal College of Art , South Kensington , London for 46 years . In the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum is the Watercolor Cottage at Felixstowe .
literature
- Basil Somerset Long : Hagreen, Henry Browne . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 475 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- New York Art Resources. The Frick Art Reference Library
- Hagreen, Henry Browne 1831-1912 suffolkartists.co.uk
Individual evidence
- ^ Nekrolog , The Daily Telegraph , December 10, 1912.
- ^ Algernon Graves: A Dictionary of artists who have exhibited works in the principal London exhibitions from 1760 to 1893. 2nd edition, London 1895.
- ^ Algernon Graves: The Royal Academy of Arts; a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. NA London / New York 1970.
- ^ Algernon Graves: Catalog Water Colored Paintings. Volume 2, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1908.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagreen, Henry Browne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1912 |
| Place of death | London |