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one-man exhibition, most famously that <strong>of</strong> Whistler’s<br />
Venetian etchings in 1883. Living exhibitors at the<br />
London premises have included John Singer Sargent,<br />
Frank Brangwyn, Walter Sickert and Walter Crane.<br />
[27648]<br />
£650<br />
9. Caller Herrin<br />
Mezzotint and Etching<br />
Hubert von Herkomer after John Everett Millais<br />
London: Published August 1st 1882 by The Fine Art<br />
Society Lim,d. 148 New Bond Street. Entered according<br />
to Act <strong>of</strong> Congress in the year 1882 by M. Knoedler and<br />
Co. in the Office <strong>of</strong> the Librarian <strong>of</strong> Congress at<br />
Washington.<br />
Image 545 x 395 mm, Plate 680 x 525 mm, Sheet 715 x<br />
560 mm<br />
unmounted<br />
Inscribed beneath image with signatures <strong>of</strong> the artists<br />
and remarques <strong>of</strong> their heads.<br />
Printsellers Association blindstamp in bottom left<br />
corner.<br />
Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914) was a British<br />
painter and engraver <strong>of</strong> German descent. He was also a<br />
pioneering film-director and a composer. Though a very<br />
successful portraitist, especially <strong>of</strong> men, he is mainly<br />
remembered for his earlier works that took a realistic<br />
approach to the conditions <strong>of</strong> life <strong>of</strong> the poor. Hard<br />
Times showing the family <strong>of</strong> a travelling day-labourer<br />
at the side <strong>of</strong> a road, is probably his best known work.<br />
Brought to England by his German father in 1857,<br />
Herkomer studied at the South Kensington Schools and<br />
first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1869. In 1883<br />
he founded his own school, the Herkomer School <strong>of</strong> Art<br />
in Bushey, Hertfordshire, which he directed without<br />
payment until 1904, when he retired.<br />
Between 1885-94 he was appointed Slade Pr<strong>of</strong>essor at<br />
Oxford and became a prominent member <strong>of</strong> the Royal<br />
Academy from1890 onwards.<br />
The Fine Art Society was established in 1876 as a print<br />
publishers and fine art dealership. Historically, the<br />
Society is best known as a pioneer in the idea <strong>of</strong> the<br />
10. Lion Drinking<br />
Etching<br />
Herbert Dicksee<br />
c.1890<br />
Image & Plate 177 x 251 mm, Sheet 251 x 311 mm<br />
unmounted<br />
Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862–1942) was an English<br />
painter who specialised in oil paintings <strong>of</strong> dogs,<br />
particularly the deerhound. Prints and etchings <strong>of</strong> his<br />
best-known paintings were widely distributed by<br />
publishers such as Klackner <strong>of</strong> London, and his work is<br />
popular among collectors and dog enthusiasts today.<br />
Dicksee belonged to an illustrious artistic family. His<br />
father was the artist John Dicksee (1817–1905). John's<br />
brother Thomas (1819–1895), also a painter, was the<br />
father <strong>of</strong> Sir Frank Dicksee (1853–1928), president <strong>of</strong><br />
the Royal Academy from 1924 until his death. (Herbert,<br />
meanwhile, had one sister, whose name was Amy.)<br />
Dicksee studied art at the Slade School, London, on a<br />
scholarship. His first painting was exhibited in 1881.<br />
[27360]<br />
£275<br />
11. [The Railway Station]<br />
Mixed method engraving<br />
Francis Holl after William Powell Frith<br />
London, Published, October 1st, 1866, by Henry<br />
Gravesand Co, the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen<br />
and The Prince and Princess <strong>of</strong> Wales_6 Pall Mall.<br />
Copyright Registered.