Lee MacCormick Edwards
Lund Humphries
Hardback
192
1999
Born in Waal in Bavaria Herkomer (1849?1914) emigrated with his family first to America then to the United Kingdom. He received a rudimentary art training from his father who was a woodcarver. Much influenced by the Idyllic School and Frederick Walker he began his career as an artist for illustrated magazines particularly The Graphic. His huge sentimental canvas The Last Muster (1875) portraying Chelsea pensioners in a church won him enormous acclaim. He returned to America in 1882 for the first of a series of highly successful lecture tours during which he painted many important portraits. In 1885 he persuaded the celebrated American architect Henry Hobson Richardson to realise his dream of Lululaund a mansion in Bushey in the United Kingdom the estate grounds also incorporated studios workshops an art school and later stage and film studios. The productions in his theatre at Bushey influenced the avant-garde stagings of Edward Gordon Craig.
Lund Humphries
Hardback
192
1999
Born in Waal in Bavaria Herkomer (1849?1914) emigrated with his family first to America then to the United Kingdom. He received a rudimentary art training from his father who was a woodcarver. Much influenced by the Idyllic School and Frederick Walker he began his career as an artist for illustrated magazines particularly The Graphic. His huge sentimental canvas The Last Muster (1875) portraying Chelsea pensioners in a church won him enormous acclaim. He returned to America in 1882 for the first of a series of highly successful lecture tours during which he painted many important portraits. In 1885 he persuaded the celebrated American architect Henry Hobson Richardson to realise his dream of Lululaund a mansion in Bushey in the United Kingdom the estate grounds also incorporated studios workshops an art school and later stage and film studios. The productions in his theatre at Bushey influenced the avant-garde stagings of Edward Gordon Craig.