William Hennessy

The Dandelion Clock

William John Hennessy (* 1839 in Thomastown ( Kilkenny ), Ireland ; † 1917 ) was an Irish-American landscape painter .

Life

Hennessy moved with his parents to New York at the age of ten , where he received his artistic training from 1856 and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1863 .

In 1870 he settled in London and exhibited many pictures in the Royal Academy of Arts , in the Royal Society of British Artists, as well as in Liverpool and Manchester . He was not lacking in tasteful ideas and motifs as well as in lightness and informality of representation; Expression and coloring are sometimes not according to the idea.

Works (excerpt)

Among his first works that were written in America and mostly remained there are:

The spring time
In memoriam
The hikers
On the bank
A byway in Normandy ( watercolor )

And among his later works from London:

Autumn in New England
On the way to the festival
The good friends
Summer evening on the Thames
A street ballad
In the twilight
Tomorrow in the forest
The return from the field (watercolor)

Individual evidence

^ Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "H" / Hennessy, William John NA 1863 ( Memento April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 26, 2015)

literature

Hennessy . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 383.

personal data
SURNAME	Hennessy, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hennessy, William John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Thomastown
DATE OF DEATH	1917

[1] Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "H" / Hennessy, William John NA 1863 ( Memento April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 26, 2015)