Lewis Pinhorn Wood Watercolor Painting - - Landscape (late 1800 ' S)
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Gorgeous watercolor from respected 19th Century artist (approx 12" x 14")
Lewis Pinhorn Wood (1848–1918) was a British landscapist and watercolourist, best known for his rural scenes of Sussex and Surrey. In the tradition of the Victorian era, his work depicted idyllic scenes of rural life across the home counties.
Dozens of his painting have sold in auction (mostly in Europe, but also in the U.S. and Australia)
As a young man Wood studied at He...atherley’s School of Fine Art, and learnt to sketch on Hampstead Heath, near to the family home at 38 Park Road, Haverstock in Hampstead. His work was influenced by his father, who he accompanied on sketching trips around the UK, and on several of his painting tours of Northern Europe. He also studied at the West London School of Art in Bolsover Street when it opened it 1870.From 1873 to 1884 Wood worked as an art master at University College School in Hampstead, a job allowing him to continue his painting tours of the country, particularly during the summer months.From the 1870s onward, Wood focused on rural landscapes, working mainly in watercolour, but occasionally in oil, across Sussex, Surrey and some London Boroughs. His work played into the Victorian appetite for idyllic, sentimental scenes of rural life. He exhibited regularly in London at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Dudley Gallery, and elsewhere. He exhibited three times at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, with In the Meadows at Arundel (1876), As the tree falls, so must it lie (1877), and Wheat Field, near Fairley, Sussex (1881)Pinhorn Wood also traveled widely around Britain in pursuit of iconic scenes beyond his mainstay of Surrey and Sussex. From early in his career he compiled an album of his travels entitled Sketches from Nature 1869–1908. Full of dated pencil and watercolour sketches, it provides a record of many of the places to which he ventured, including Cumbria in the summer of 1890, North Wales in the summer of 1891, and as far north as the Trossachs in Perthshire.In 1892 Wood returned to the continent to paint in towns in Northern France and traveled to Limburg in Germany, which his father had portrayed in his 1862 scene Limburg an der Lahn, Blick in die Altstadt mit dem Dom St. Georg. Paintings from Pinhorn Wood's trip included the substantial Limburg an der Lahn, an idyllic view across the Lahn river towards the castle and cathedral of Limburg.In 1890, aged 41 and with a young family of four, he wrote a story for children entitled "Harry Goodchild's Day Dream: A Tale".[11] The 28 page book was published by George Stoneman. The monthly magazine The Coming Day reviewed it as "A childish but rather pretty story about two children who were gifted with wings to enable them to fly for once to the moon".In January 1901 he joined the Savage Club as an 'Art' member.In April 1906 the Modern Gallery on New Bond Street, London, held an exhibition titled ‘Three Generations’, showing work by LJ Wood (cathedrals), Pinhorn Wood (landscapes) and Lawson Wood (humorous scenes) together.[4] A similar exhibition of work from the three generations of the family was held by Walker’s Galleries of New Bond Street in February 1912.
Lewis Pinhorn Wood (1848–1918) was a British landscapist and watercolourist, best known for his rural scenes of Sussex and Surrey. In the tradition of the Victorian era, his work depicted idyllic scenes of rural life across the home counties.
Dozens of his painting have sold in auction (mostly in Europe, but also in the U.S. and Australia)
As a young man Wood studied at He...atherley’s School of Fine Art, and learnt to sketch on Hampstead Heath, near to the family home at 38 Park Road, Haverstock in Hampstead. His work was influenced by his father, who he accompanied on sketching trips around the UK, and on several of his painting tours of Northern Europe. He also studied at the West London School of Art in Bolsover Street when it opened it 1870.From 1873 to 1884 Wood worked as an art master at University College School in Hampstead, a job allowing him to continue his painting tours of the country, particularly during the summer months.From the 1870s onward, Wood focused on rural landscapes, working mainly in watercolour, but occasionally in oil, across Sussex, Surrey and some London Boroughs. His work played into the Victorian appetite for idyllic, sentimental scenes of rural life. He exhibited regularly in London at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Dudley Gallery, and elsewhere. He exhibited three times at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, with In the Meadows at Arundel (1876), As the tree falls, so must it lie (1877), and Wheat Field, near Fairley, Sussex (1881)Pinhorn Wood also traveled widely around Britain in pursuit of iconic scenes beyond his mainstay of Surrey and Sussex. From early in his career he compiled an album of his travels entitled Sketches from Nature 1869–1908. Full of dated pencil and watercolour sketches, it provides a record of many of the places to which he ventured, including Cumbria in the summer of 1890, North Wales in the summer of 1891, and as far north as the Trossachs in Perthshire.In 1892 Wood returned to the continent to paint in towns in Northern France and traveled to Limburg in Germany, which his father had portrayed in his 1862 scene Limburg an der Lahn, Blick in die Altstadt mit dem Dom St. Georg. Paintings from Pinhorn Wood's trip included the substantial Limburg an der Lahn, an idyllic view across the Lahn river towards the castle and cathedral of Limburg.In 1890, aged 41 and with a young family of four, he wrote a story for children entitled "Harry Goodchild's Day Dream: A Tale".[11] The 28 page book was published by George Stoneman. The monthly magazine The Coming Day reviewed it as "A childish but rather pretty story about two children who were gifted with wings to enable them to fly for once to the moon".In January 1901 he joined the Savage Club as an 'Art' member.In April 1906 the Modern Gallery on New Bond Street, London, held an exhibition titled ‘Three Generations’, showing work by LJ Wood (cathedrals), Pinhorn Wood (landscapes) and Lawson Wood (humorous scenes) together.[4] A similar exhibition of work from the three generations of the family was held by Walker’s Galleries of New Bond Street in February 1912.
