William Heysham Overend
William Heysham Overend (* 1851 in Coatham , North Yorkshire , England , United Kingdom ; † 1898 in London , England, United Kingdom) was a British painter and illustrator .
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William Heysham Overend was born in Coatham, United Kingdom in 1851, the son of a flax spinner. He studied painting with the painter Davis Cooper for three years. He has worked as an illustrator for a large number of magazines , including the renowned Illustrated London News , the most important illustrated weekly newspaper of its time. Overend was also an illustrator of books and did the illustrations for books by George Alfred Henty , an English writer and war correspondent . In addition, Overend was a painter, specializing in depictions of the navy .
Overend exhibited his work regularly at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He was a member of the latter from 1886. His reputation spread to the United States and so Overend brought his reputation to the United States in 1882, where he was commissioned by Admiral David Porter to create a picture in memory of the conquest of New Orleans by the later Admiral David Glasgow Farragut during the American period To make civil war . Farragut was a foster son of Porter. The rank of admiral was created by Abraham Lincoln solely for Farragut to honor his heroism. Overend was quite successful in the USA and exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 .
Overend died in London in 1898 at the age of 47. He did not see the exhibition of one of his most impressive works, The Hero of Trafalgar , because it was only opened to the public seven years after Overend's death.
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Most of Overends' paintings are black and white lithographs and engravings. Color lithographs like The Hero of Trafalgar or My Father is at the Wheel are just as exceptional as colored engravings , for which Carnival in the port of Spain, Trinidad would be an example. Overend had specialized primarily in maritime and military motifs, in particular in the synthesis of the two, i.e. the navy. Overend's illustrations are inherently dynamic, which is generated by the representation of actions in the fertile moment. In art, a fertile moment is the exact moment within a sequence of movements, which is inherent in both the previous and the following movement. Overend mastered this to perfection. In addition to the prints, Overend also created several oil-based paintings that earned him a place in the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
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| SURNAME | Overend, William Heysham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coatham , North Yorkshire , England , United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1898 |
| Place of death | London , England, UK |