HardCover. Pages: 184 Publisher: Atelier Books Born in Australia and ought up in Kirkcudight in southwest Scotland. Hornel trained as a painter in Edinburgh and Antwerp. Through his friendship with George Henry. The two artists became important members of the Glasgow Boys. Promoting the second. highly coloured decorative phase of the Boys between about 1880 and 1896. His masterpiece. Summer. acquired by Liverpool Corporation in 1892 amid intense controversy. propelled Hornel into the limelight and led to an invitation to exhibit his work in ussels in 1893 alongside that of Rodin. Signac and Toulouse-Lautrec. In 1893-94 Henry and Hornel spent thirteen months painting in Japan; Hornel's subsequent exhibition in Glasgow was a triumph. His instantly recognisable later work of children playing in woods carpeted with snowdrops or wild hyacinths or among the burnet roses above the ...
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