Charles Napier Hemy
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Charles Napier Hemy (May 24, 1841 - September 30, 1917), British painter,
He was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, of a musical family[1].
He was trained in the Government School if Design, Newcastle, in the Antwerp academy and in the studio of Baron Leys. He returned to London in the 1870s. In 1881, he moved to Falmouth, Cornwall. He produced some figure subjects and landscapes, but is best known by his marine paintings.
He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1898 and an Academician in 1910, Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1890 and member in 1897.
Two of his paintings, "Pilchards" (1897) and "London River" (1904), are in the Tate collections.
He died in Falmouth on September 30, 1917.
[edit] Related links
- Tate Collection [1]
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- ^ Grove Art article by Andrew Greg.
