"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."
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. |
Culture | UK |
Style | Post Impressionism |
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 |