Henry Enfield
Henry Enfield (born September 12, 1849 in London , † unclear, possibly 1911 in Neuwarp , Pomerania Province ) was a British landscape and marine painter .
Life
Enfield, son of a family of solicitors in Nottingham , started as an autodidact with watercolor - and oil painting . He was friends with the writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his cousin "Bob", who was also a painter. From 1873 to 1875 Enfield studied with Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran in Paris . From 1884 to 1896 he lived in Düsseldorf , where he (together with Ernest Crofts ) belonged to the Düsseldorf rowing club from August 1884 and to the artists' club Malkasten from 1888 to 1900 . He was also a member of the General German Art Cooperative . Together with Ludwig Schmidt, Enfield ran a glass painting company in Düsseldorf . He later worked in Berlin , where from 1897 he belonged to the Association of Berlin Artists , then he lived in Neuwarp (Pomerania).
From 1872 Enfield sent exhibitions to the Royal Academy of Arts , from 1895 he was represented at major art exhibitions in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich ( Glaspalast ). His most famous landscapes and marine scenes show motifs from Norwegian fjords.
literature
- Enfield, Henry . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 525 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Huon L. Mallalieu: The Dictionary of British Watercolor Artists up to 1920 . Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge 1976, Volume 1, p. 93.
- Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Gründ, Paris 1976, Volume IV, p. 159.
Web links
- Henry Enfield , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Enfield, Henry , biography in the portal insularugia.de
- Henry Enfield, steam sailor leaving the fjord. , Biography on the beyars.com portal
- Henry Enfield , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ There are different statements about the date of death in circulation: 1908, 1911, 1914 and 1923.
- ^ Henry Enfield , biography in the askart.com portal , accessed on November 25, 2017
- ^ Alan Sandison: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism. A future feeling . MacMillan Press, London 1996, ISBN 978-1-349-39297-7 , p. 234 ( Google Books )
- ^ The members in 1887 . In: Düsseldorfer Ruderverein: DRV May 7, 1880 . Düsseldorf 1888, p. [39]
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 429
- ^ Members of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft in 1890 , website in the portal wladimir-aichelburg.at , accessed on November 26, 2017
- ^ Enfield & Schmidt , entry in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1891 , part 1, p. 72
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enfield, Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British landscape and marine painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 1911 |
| Place of death | Neuwarp , Pomerania Province |