Charles Napier Hemy
Illustration — Hemy in the 1900s • Illustration — Waiting, an 1895 painting by Hemy • Illustration — Blackwall by Charles Napier Hemy 1872 Charles Napier Hemy (Newcastle upon Tyne, 24 May 1841 – 30 September 1917, Falmouth) was a British genre and marine painter. He was born to a musical family in Newcastle upon Tyne, and trained in the Government School of Design, Newcastle, followed by the Antwerp Academy and the studio of Baron Leys. Hemy returned to London in the 1870s, and in 1881 moved to the coastal town of Falmouth in Cornwall.
Charles Napier Hemy
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- Charles Napier Hemy was born on 24 May 1841. · Newcastle upon Tyne.
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- Charles Napier Hemy died on 30 September 1917. · Falmouth.
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- painter · artist
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- Royal Academy of Fine Arts · Ushaw Historic House and Chapels and Gardens
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Illustration — Hemy in the 1900s • Illustration — Waiting, an 1895 painting by Hemy • Illustration — Blackwall by Charles Napier Hemy 1872 Charles Napier Hemy (Newcastle upon Tyne, 24 May 1841 – 30 September 1917, Falmouth) was a British genre and marine painter. He was born to a musical family in Newcastle upon Tyne, and trained in the Government School of Design, Newcastle, followed by the Antwerp Academy and the studio of Baron Leys. Hemy returned to London in the 1870s, and in 1881 moved to the coastal town of Falmouth in Cornwall.
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He produced painted figure- and landscapes, but his best-known works are Pilchards (1897) and London River (1904) which are in the Tate collections. John Singer Sargent painted a portrait (now in the Falmouth Art Gallery collection) of Hemy when visiting Hemy's Falmouth home, 'Churchfield', in 1905. The visit highlighted the importance of the circle of artists that surrounded the great marine artist in the town. Hemy was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1898 and an Academician in 1910. He was also honoured as an Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1890, and became a full member in 1897. He died in Falmouth on 30 September 1917. His younger brothers Bernard Benedict Hemy (1845–1913) and Thomas Madawaska Hemy (1852–1937) were also painters, though did not match his success.
Charles Napier Hemy studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens. Work by Charles Napier Hemy is recorded in the collections of Tate, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery and Walker Art Gallery.
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Blackwall by Charles Napier Hemy 1872
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Charles Napier Hemy was born at Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Charles Napier Hemy died at Falmouth.
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- 1.Grove Art article by Andrew Greg
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- 3."The History of Cornwall in 100 Objects". Western Morning News. 27 July 2011, p. 13.
- 4.Greg, Andrew, "Hemy, Charles Napier". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 11 Jul. 2015.
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