Louis Haghe (17 March 1806 – 9 March 1885) was a Belgian

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ist. His father and grandfather had practised as architects. Training in his teens in watercolour painting, he found work in the relatively new art of lithography when the first press was set up in

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. He visited England to find work, and settled there permanently in 1823. Together with William Day (1797–1845), around 1830 he formed the partnership Day & Haghe, which became the most famous early Victorian firm of lithographic printing in London. Day and Haghe created and printed lithographs dealing with a wide range of subjects, such as hunting scenes, architecture, topographical views and genre depictions. They pioneered the new techniques for

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as well as hand-tinted lithographs. After William's death in 1845, the firm became known as ' Day & Son'. They were pioneers in developing the medium of the lithograph printed in colours. In 1838, Day and Haghe were appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen'. Possibly his most ambitious project was providing 250 images for David Roberts' '' The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia'' printed between 1842–1849. Roberts praised his skill and artistry, although

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called it 'forced'. From the mid-1850s Haghe concentrated more on his watercolours, and gained a reputation for his architectural scenes of northern Europe, with his pictures bought and displayed by the

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. He also painted in oils, which were exhibited at the British Institution. He became president of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours from 1873 to 1884. Haghe's artistic works were achieved in spite of a deformity in his right hand since birth. He died at Stockwell Road on 9 March 1885 and was buried at

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. His younger brother Charles Haghe (-1888) (also known as Charles Hague) was employed as an assistant at Day and Haghe, and remained there after Louis left. Also at the company were lithographers Andrew Picken and

Thomas Ashburton Picken Thomas Ashburton Picken (c. 1818 – 23 January 1891), known professionally as T. Picken, was a Scottish-born watercolourist, engraver and lithographer working in England between around 1834 and 1875. He worked for the printing firm Day and ...

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File:Isle of Graia3.jpg , Isle of Graia Gulf of Akabah Arabia Petraea, 1839 lithograph of a trade caravan by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts. File:A group of worshippers at the site of a temple Wellcome L0021551.jpg ,

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in Jerusalem, '' The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia'' by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haghe, Louis 1806 births 1885 deaths Artists from Tournai 19th-century engravers British printers British engravers Burials at West Norwood Cemetery British lithographers Members of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 19th-century British businesspeople