The Moat House State III
Seymour Haden
- About The Moat House State III
"This plate, begun at Willesley in Kent was, with the exception of the house, finished at Sonning. The house in this plate is really old Willesley house . . . The plate being only begun and a suitable foreground for it being found at Sonning in Berkshire was finished there."
Savvy Price $250.00
Gallery Price $400.00
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| Description | "This plate, begun at Willesley in Kent was, with the exception of the house, finished at Sonning. The house in this plate is really old Willesley house . . . The plate being only begun and a suitable foreground for it being found at Sonning in Berkshire was finished there." |
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| About the Artist | (1818-1910, British) Francis Seymour Haden attended a government art training school where he
learned to draw and etch. He was a
surgeon as well as an etcher and collector, having completed his medical
studies at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1838.
After a year of travel in Italy and Switzerland, he took over his late
father’s London medical practice. In
1845 he began to study and collect etchings.
By 1858 he was a serious etcher.
In 1866 a portfolio of his landscape etchings was published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, which brought
him international acclaim. He founded the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers & Engravers in 1880 and campaigned tirelessly for etching to be taken seriously as a medium of creative artistic expression. He was knighted in 1894 for his contribution to art. |
| Medium | Etching and drypoint engraving on paper |
| Catalogue raisonne | #93 |
| Plate size | 5 1/2" height X 8 1/4" width |
| Signed | "S. Haden" at viewer's lower right in graphite, "Sonning 1866 S. Hayden" at lower left in plate |
| Condition | Good, not excellent, as likely discolored on verso |
| Provenance | AS Hu |
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is Corinne Cain, ASA
Phoenix, AZ
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