Henry Mowbray Howard
Henry Mowbray Howard , OBE (born June 1, 1873 in Washington, DC , † January 16, 1953 in Kensington , London ) was a British-American marine painter from the Düsseldorf School and an officer in the Royal Navy .
Life
Howard, offspring of the Catholic English aristocratic family Howard from the line of the Dukes of Norfolk , was a son of the British diplomat Sir Henry Howard (1843-1920) from his marriage to the American Cecilia Dowdall Riggs (1844-1907). Howard was sent to Düsseldorf by his father to study and learn the German language. From November 1890 he lived there with a Brüning family. A son of the family recommended that he train with the marine painter Carl Becker . At that time, the industrialist Fritz Thyssen also lived in the Brünings' house . He became friends with him and his brother Heinrich on a permanent basis. From 1891 to 1893, Howard attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a pupil of Heinrich Lauenstein's elementary class . He later became a student of Fernand Cormon in Paris . In 1905/1906 he lived in Kansas City (Kansas) .
On April 24, 1917 he married in London Norah Florence Annie Dunlop-Watson (1885-1974), the daughter of Major John Dunlop-Watson. The couple had two children.
Howard served as a naval officer in the Royal Navy and rose to the rank of commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve . He fought in the First and Second World Wars . In 1940 Howard was British liaison officer in the French Ministry of the Navy. For his military achievements he was accepted as a knight in the French Legion of Honor and as an officer in the Order of the British Empire .
literature
- Howard, Henry Mowbray . In: Gothaischer genealogical court calendar . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1913, p. 7.
- Henry Mowbray Howard, OBE In: Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008 . Debrett's Limited, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-87052-080-5 , p. 1064.
Web links
- Henry Mowbray Howard , data sheet in the exhibitions.univie.ac.at portal( University of Vienna )
- Henry Mowbray Howard , website on the mutualart.com portal
- Henry Mowbray Howard , genealogical data sheet on the portal wc.rootsweb.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Henry Mowbray Howard (1873–1953) , website on wikitree.com , accessed on September 21, 2019
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Burke's Peerage . 2003, Volume 2, Page 2908
- ↑ Simone Derix : The Thyssens. Family and wealth . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-77974-8 , p. 244, footnote 46 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Johannes Gramlich: The Thyssens as an art collector. Investment and symbolic capital (1900–1970) . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-77981-6 , p. 115 ( Google Books )
- ^ Simone Derix: Transnational Families . In: Jost Dülffer , Wilfried Loth (Ed.): Dimensions of international history . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71260-5 , p. 347 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ^ Howard, Herbert (Henry) M. In: Susan V. Craig: Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) . University of Kansas, Edition July 2009, p. 180 ( PDF )
- ↑ Simone Derix: The Thyssens. Family and wealth . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-77974-8 , p. 394 ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howard, Henry Mowbray |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American marine painter from the Düsseldorf School and an officer in the Royal Navy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1953 |
| Place of death | Kensington , London |