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Heatherley School Of Fine Art
The Heatherley School of Fine Art is an independent art school in London. The school was named after Thomas Heatherley who took over as the school's principal from James Mathews Leigh (when it was named "Leigh's"). Founded in 1845, the school is affectionately known as Heatherley's. It is one of the oldest independent art schools in London and is among the few art colleges in Britain that focus on portraiture, Figurative art, figurative painting and sculpture. It opened a new school, on George Street (off Baker Street), London, in November 1927 after previously being located on Newman Street. In 2008 the school moved to a purpose designed building in Lots Road, Chelsea. Alumni References External linksSchool website {{DEFAULTSORT:Heatherley School Of Fine Art Art schools in London Educational institutions established in 1845 Arts organizations established in 1845 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Alexander Bowler
Henry Alexander Bowler (30 November 1824 – 6 August 1903) was an English artist. He was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Arts for many years, and exhibited paintings there. Life Bowler was born in the Kensington district of London, son of Charles and Frances Anne Bowler. After education at private schools he studied art at Heatherley School of Fine Art, Leigh's School and the Government School of Design at Somerset House. In 1851 he was appointed headmaster of the Stourbridge College of Art, but was soon transferred to a teaching appointment in the school at Somerset House, where he had received his training. In 1855 he was appointed an inspector in the Science and Art Department, and in 1876 became assistant director for art at South Kensington. From 1861 to 1899 Bowler was teacher of perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts. He also held important posts in organising the 1862 International Exhibition and subsequent exhibitions. From 1847 to 1871 Bowler exhibited ten pictures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Gotch
Caroline Burland Gotch (née Yates, 9 May 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a British artist and part of the Newlyn School. Biography Gotch was born in Liverpool. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Edward Yates, a wealthy local property owner. She studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in 1878 and then at the Slade School of Art in London before enrolling at the Academie Julian in Paris during 1880. While at the Slade she met Thomas Cooper Gotch and the couple married in August 1881 at St Peter's Church in Newlyn. They returned to France, where their daughter, Phyllis Maureen, was born in September 1882. Despite protracted periods of ill-health following child-birth, Gotch and her husband travelled extensively including an 1883 trip to Australia. They lived in London between 1884 and 1887 before settling in Newlyn where they eventually built a family home, Wheal Betsy. In Newlyn the couple were founding members of the St Ives Art Club and active in the artists' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Alfred Gilbert
Sir Alfred Gilbert (12 August 18544 November 1934) was an English sculptor. He was born in London and studied sculpture under Joseph Boehm, Matthew Noble, Édouard Lantéri and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. His first work of importance was ''The Kiss of Victory'', followed by the trilogy of ''Perseus Arming'', ''Icarus'' and ''Comedy and Tragedy''. His most creative years were from the late 1880s to the mid-1890s, when he produced several celebrated works such as a memorial for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain Eros on Piccadilly Circus. As well as sculpture, Gilbert explored other techniques such as goldsmithing and damascening. He painted watercolours and drew book illustrations. He was made a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1892, yet his personal life was beginning to unravel as he took on too many commissions and entered into debt, whilst at the same time his wife's mental health deteriorated. Gilbert received a royal commission fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Mabel Gabriel
Edith Mabel Gabriel (1882-1972) was a British sculptor. Biography Gabriel was born in England at Richmond and studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London and then in Paris. Her sculptures were classical in style and she regularly exhibited in Paris from 1925 onwards, often at the Salon des Artistes Francais. Her sculpture ''Mother and Child'' featured in the 1939 volume ''Modern British Sculpture'' published by the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Gabriel eventually became a fellow of the Society. As well as in Paris, she exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Gabriel died in London, where she had rented a studio in Hampstead Hampstead () is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, located mainly in the London Borough of Camden, with a small part in the London Borough of Barnet. It borders Highgate and Golders Green to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Russell Flint
Sir William Russell Flint (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolours of women. He also worked in oils, tempera, and printmaking. Biography Flint was born in Edinburgh on 4 April 1880 and was educated at Daniel Stewart's College and then Edinburgh Institution. From 1894 to 1900 Flint was apprenticed as a lithographic draughtsman while taking classes at the Royal Institute of Art, Edinburgh.Theo Cowdell"Flint, Sir William Russell"''Oxford Art Online'' From 1900 to 1902 he worked as a medical illustrator in London while studying part-time at the Heatherley School of Fine Art. He furthered his art education by studying independently at the British Museum. He was an artist for ''The Illustrated London News'' from 1903 to 1909, and produced illustrations for editions of several books, including H Rider Haggard's ''King Solomon's Mines'' (1907 edition), W. S. Gilbert's ''Savoy Operas'' (1909), Sir Thomas Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Dawson
Gladys Dawson, later Gladys Woodruff, (1909-1993) was a British artist known as a painter and illustrator of children's books. Biography Dawson was born in Castleton in Rochdale and, after a private school education, she attended Heatherley's School of Art from 1936 to 1939. After graduation, Dawson worked as a commercial artist for a number of different clients. She created fabric designs for both the Liberty department store in London and for the Courtaulds textile company, as well as greeting cards for Raphael Tuck & Sons and also book jackets. As a painter Dawson produced watercolours of British historic buildings including castles and windmills and also of British birds and wildlife. She had solo exhibitions at Colwyn Bay in 1947 and 1954, in Trinidad in 1954, in Kenya 1963 and at Bourne Hall in Epsom in 1974. Dawson's work was also exhibited at the Royal Institution and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. She was elected an associate member of the Royal Cambrian Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jensine Costello
Jensine Costello (born 7 May 1886) was a Norwegian painter of portraits and figure subjects who spent her career in Great Britain. Biography Costello was born and grew up in Norway and, after spending time in the United States, moved to England where she studied at Heatherley's School of Art in London. She painted portraits and figure subjects, usually in oils, and exhibited widely. From 1936 to 1938, Costello showed works in Paris at the Paris Salon. She also exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Society of Women Artists, the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers. For a time Costello lived at Ilford in Essex and then at Exmouth in Devon Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Costello, Jensine 1886 births D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Clark (painter)
Joseph Clark (4 July 18344 July 1926) was an English oil painter, well known in the Victorian era for his domestic scenes, especially of children. Life Born in 1834 in Cerne Abbas, Dorset,"Clark, Joseph, (4 July 1834–4 July 1926)", in ''Who's Who (UK), Who Was Who 1916–1928'' (1992 reprint, ): "Member of Institute of Oil Painters, Born Cerne Abbas, Dorsetshire, 4 July 1834; m 1868, d of John Jones, Winchester; one s three d; died 4 July 1926" from the age of eleven Clark was educated as a boarder by William Barnes at his school in Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester, and according to a study of the school "exploited Barnes's training perhaps more successfully than any other pupil".Joseph Clark (1834–1926) Artist in Oils at Dorset Ancestors, accessed 8 October 2020 His parents brought Clark up as a member of the Emanuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Child
Victor Llewellyn Child (1897–1960) was a Canadian painter, etcher and newspaper illustrator. A senior pen-and-ink commercial artist at the ''Toronto Telegram'' for much of his professional career, in private life he produced landscapes and portraits in watercolours and oils. Career Victor Child was born in Palmerston, Ontario, and studied first in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art with George Agnew Reid, Charles Macdonald Manley (Manly) and John William Beatty, and later in London at Heatherley's. While in England during the First World War he served with the Royal Flying Corps. In 1920 he joined the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, exhibiting his etchings and illustration drawings with the society in 1925–1927 and 1931–1933 at the Art Gallery of Toronto. The prominent Toronto printing firm Rous and Mann commissioned his work in 1927 for its Canadian Artists' series Christmas cards in company with distinguished painters such as Casson, Harris and Varley. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Carter (painter)
Hugh Carter (4 March 1837 – 27 September 1903) was an English painter, of subject paintings, portraits and landscapes. Life He was born in Birmingham on 4 March 1837, the son of Samuel Carter, a railway solicitor. John Corrie Carter was his younger brother. After the family came to London, he studied for a short time at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and then with John William Bottomley, Alexander Johnson, Francis William Topham, and John Phillip. He also worked at Düsseldorf under Karl Franz Eduard von Gebhardt. From 1859 to 1902 Carter exhibited twenty-four pictures at the Royal Academy, mostly subject paintings in the domestic genre, with also portraits of Alexander Blair (1873 and 1898), Sir Joshua Staples, F.S.A. (1887), and Mrs. Worsley Taylor (1890). Two of his successful exhibits were ''Music hath Charms'' (1872) and ''Card Players'' (1873), both representing scenes from Westphalian peasant life. He painted also landscapes in water-colour and pastel. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Francis Carline
George Francis Carline (11 July 1855 – 28 November 1920) was an oil and watercolour painter of landscapes and portraits. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, and the Dowdeswell Galleries, London. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and father of artists Sydney Carline, Sydney, Hilda Carline, Hilda, and Richard Carline.Cowling, Elizabeth.Carline family (per. c.1870–c.1975) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', (Oxford University Press, 2004), online edn, October 2009. Life and career Carline was born in Lincoln, England, LincolnWood, Christopher. ''Dictionary of British Art, Volume IV: Victorian Painters: I. The Text'', (Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1995), p. 90 and attended Lincoln Grammar School,Waters, Grant M.. ''Dictionary of British Artists, Working 1900-1950'', (Eastbourne Fine Art, Eastbourne, 1975), p. 59 then Lincoln College of Art, Lincoln School of Art. His art studies continued a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
