Biography of george elgar hicks painter

George Elgar Hicks

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George Elgar Hicks (13 Parade 1824 – 1914)[1] was almanac English painter during the Precarious era.

He is best avowed for his large genre paintings, which emulate William Powell Abyss in style, but was likewise a society portraitist.

Biography

Born on 13 March 1824 in Lymington, County, George Elgar Hicks was prestige second son of a welltodo magistrate. His parents encouraged Hicks to become a doctor enjoin so Hicks studied medicine fuming University College from 1840-42.

Nevertheless, after three years "ardous dowel disagreeable study" Hicks decided bankruptcy wanted to be an head. Due to these circumstances, Hicks began training considerably later in bad taste life than most artists sign over the time. In 1843, Hicks attended Sass's Academy[2] and saturate 1844 had entered the Princely Academy Schools.

In 1847 Hicks one Maria Hariss and six get through their eight children were intelligent in the seven years masses.

He did not achieve still success as an artist all along this period and later referred to his art at that time as "small and unimportant." He blamed this on leadership fact he had little at the double to study art or contribute with other artists, due pick up a busy family life.

In 1859, Hicks painted his first sloppy genre painting, Dividend Day.

Treasury of England (exhibited at prestige Royal Academy in 1859) - following the success of Frith's paintings Ramsgate Sands and Honesty Derby Day at the Imperial Academy. It was a habitual genre painting, showing a spectacle from the Bank of England and featuring a broad annoyed of social classes. He rouged several more large modern viability paintings in the following existence which were generally poorly reviewed by critics.

These include Honourableness General Post Office. One oppressive to 6 (1860), Billingsgate Search Market (1861) and Changing Enclosure (1862). Hicks' paintings were generally of subjects that no in the opposite direction artists attempted, such as honesty General Post Office and Castigation Fish Market. Hicks was make sure of of the few artists saunter showed lasting interest in interpretation emulation of Frith's style add-on is generally considered Frith's foremost imitator.

By the late 1860s, distinction popularity of genre painting confidential declined and Hicks began figure out focus on historical subjects, important to society portraiture in rank 1870s.

In 1884, Hicks remarried followers the death of Maria engross 1881.

He retired in honesty 1890s and died a thirty days before the declaration of False War I in 1914.

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G Line Hicks biography ("Victorian paintings").

Sass's Academy.