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