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William Lee Hankey
(Chester, England, 1869 - 1952)
William Lee Hankey was a British painter and book illustrator. He specialized in landscapes, character studies, and portraits of pastoral life, particularly in studies of mothers with young children. He was born in Chester, and worked as a designer after leaving school. He studied art in the evenings at the Chester School of Art, now known as the Department of Art and Design at University of Chester. He then went to the Royal College of Art, and traveled to Paris being heavily influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage, who also favored rustic scenes in realistic and sentimental style. He was first exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1896 and was President of the London Sketch Club from 1902-1904. He stayed in France in the early 1900s, painting may of his works in Brittany and Normandy, showing the peasant lifestyle which was already rapidly disappearing in England. From 1904 until well after WWI he maintained a studio at the Etaples art Colony. An article published in 1906 described his ability to paint as “an absolute purist. He paints [his watercolors] entirely with transparent pigments, and never has recourse to opaque colors; his brushwork is broad and confident-free, on the one hand, from affection of showy cleverness, and, on the other, from minuteness or overelaboration; and he does not insist, as is the fashion with many present-day painters, upon the lowness of tone.” His French paintings included land and seascapes, as well as figure studies. Hankey’s black and white as well as his colored etchings gained him a reputation as “one of the most gifted of the figurative printmakers working in the original dry point during the first thirty years of the 20th century.” He used his artwork to contribute to the rising awareness of the consequences for ordinary people of the Germany invasion of France and Belgium in 1914. He even went as far to serve with the Artists’ Rifles from 1915-1918.
(Chester, England, 1869 - 1952)
William Lee Hankey was a British painter and book illustrator. He specialized in landscapes, character studies, and portraits of pastoral life, particularly in studies of mothers with young children. He was born in Chester, and worked as a designer after leaving school. He studied art in the evenings at the Chester School of Art, now known as the Department of Art and Design at University of Chester. He then went to the Royal College of Art, and traveled to Paris being heavily influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage, who also favored rustic scenes in realistic and sentimental style. He was first exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1896 and was President of the London Sketch Club from 1902-1904. He stayed in France in the early 1900s, painting may of his works in Brittany and Normandy, showing the peasant lifestyle which was already rapidly disappearing in England. From 1904 until well after WWI he maintained a studio at the Etaples art Colony. An article published in 1906 described his ability to paint as “an absolute purist. He paints [his watercolors] entirely with transparent pigments, and never has recourse to opaque colors; his brushwork is broad and confident-free, on the one hand, from affection of showy cleverness, and, on the other, from minuteness or overelaboration; and he does not insist, as is the fashion with many present-day painters, upon the lowness of tone.” His French paintings included land and seascapes, as well as figure studies. Hankey’s black and white as well as his colored etchings gained him a reputation as “one of the most gifted of the figurative printmakers working in the original dry point during the first thirty years of the 20th century.” He used his artwork to contribute to the rising awareness of the consequences for ordinary people of the Germany invasion of France and Belgium in 1914. He even went as far to serve with the Artists’ Rifles from 1915-1918.
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