Henry Courtney Selous

Henry Courtney Selous (before his name change until 1838: Slous ) (born April 25, 1803 in Deptford , † September 24, 1890 in Beaworthy, Devon ) was an English painter and engraver.

Self-portrait by Henry Courtney Selous (1871)

Life

He was the son of the miniature painter George Slous, well-known in his day, and a student of John Martin . In 1818 he entered the Royal Academy Schools and initially painted mainly animal pictures for a few years before turning to portraiture . He signed this as Slous , the historicizing paintings and illustrations of contemporary books and magazines that were created from 1839 onwards are then drawn with Selous . The National Academy of Design elected Henry Courtney Selous in New York in 1839 as an honorary member ( Honorary NA ) of the academy.

In 1843 he won a history painters competition and stayed with this subject for the rest of his life. He was commercially quite successful and received numerous commissions, including for the opening of the First World Exhibition at Crystal Palace in Hyde Park in 1851 ( The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria on 1st May 1851 , today in the holdings of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London ) as well as for various historicizing paintings of military units in combat.

Web links

Queen Victoria opens the World's Fair at the Crystal Palace, 1851

• Kurzbiographie at artnet (Engl.)
• Self-portrait in the National Portrait Gallery
• The Opening of the Great Exhibition ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "S" / Selous, Henry Courtney Honorary 1839 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 16, 2015)