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Henry John Yeend King

http://www.artnet.com/artist/9497/henry-john-yeend-king.html Henry John Yeend King was a London painter known for his landscapes and genre subjects. A member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of British Artists, he studied under William Bromley, Bonnat, and Cormon in Paris.

King exhibited 115 times at the Suffolk Street Gallery and 36 times at the Royal Academy. He had at least another 200 exhibitions in England, Munich, and Berlin, as well as the 1889 Paris International Exhibition (for which he won a Bronze Medal). In 1898 his picture of ‘Milking Time’ was purchased by the Tate Gallery, one of London's finest galleries.

King’s work is typical of popular late Victorian paintings that feature rustic themes as well as more fanciful garden scenes with beautiful ladies. In this lovely painting, his robust plein air technique and bold color palette reflect his Paris training.

http://cambridgeartgallery.com/area-19th_century/artists-details.asp?Artist=146 King was a painter of rustic genre scenes and landscapes. Born in London, he worked for three years as a glass painter before studying with the Victorian artist William Bromley. His art really flourished, however, when he moved to Paris to study under Leon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon. In 1885 he wrote and illustrated an article for the Magazine of Art entitled “A Round in France,” a pictorial and written tour of the Brittany countryside. This immersion in French art, particularly the influence of the Realist and Impressionist schools, informed King’s mature style like nothing else. Therefore, while his rustic genre scenes are typically Victorian, his technique - working en plein air and infusing his scenes with bold and often surprising colours – shows the influence of French art.

As an artist, King had a long and successful career. Between the years 1874 and 1924 he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists (Suffolk Street), the New Watercolour Society, the Grosvenor Gallery and elsewhere. In 1879 he became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists; and in 1886 he was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, later becoming the group’s Vice President. In 1898 his picture "Milking Time" was bought by the Tate Gallery.

http://www.victorian-paintings.com/artist.cfm?ArtistID=78 Henry John Yeend King R.B.A, V.P.R.I, R.O.I Born 1855 Died 1924

A landscape and rustic genre painter from London, he was trained in Paris by Bonnat and Cormon. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street in 1879 and a member of the Royal Institiute of Watercolours in 1886. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and elswhere from 1874 to 1924, and in 1898 his picture "Milking Time" was bought by the Tate Gallery in London. His paintings of garden scenes with pretty girls are typical of late Victorian genre, but his technique reflected his Paris training.

Key to credentials ARA Associate of the Royal Academy RA Royal Academician RBA Member of the Royal Society of British Artists RBSA Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists RSW Member of the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society RWS Member of the Royal Watercolour Society

http://www.rubylane.com/shops/piatik/item/PS06-12-09-01 Henry John Yeend King was born in London in 1855 and first apprenticed as a glass painter before studying under Victorian artists William Bromley in London, and Leon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon in Paris. His technique was influenced by the French school of Realism and Impressionism, which honed his ability to emphasize a well-defined figure against a myriad background of boldly lit vegetation. This technique, known as plein air or “open air,” seems a familiar concept today, but was a revolutionary procedure in the late 1800’s. His prolific body of work garnered the artist many prestigious awards during his lifetime, and his paintings can be found in major museum and private collections.

http://www.fada.com/browse_by_artist.html?gallery_no=2&artist=3442&bio=1 Henry John Yeend King (1855 - 1924)

Henry John Yeend King was an important Victorian genre and landscape artist. He was born in London on August 21, 1855 and began his education as a choirboy at the Temple Church. One of the artist’s earliest recollections was of being locked in the building one afternoon after practice: “I had to spend the night in a cabin built of pew cushions, while my father was inquiring at every hospital in London. After three weeks’ rest with a bad cold, on going back to my choral duties I was summoned to an interview with a Bencher, who, after regaling me with cake and wine, presented me with five shillings for having been a ‘good boy,’ and ‘for not having thrown my boots through one of the stained-glass windows.’ The idea of doing such a thing had never occurred to me.”

He continued his schooling at the Philological School before being apprenticed to O'Connor's, the glass painters, of Bernes St., London for three years. After working at O'Connor's he went to study painting under the Victorian artist William Bromley, RBA, and then he traveled to Paris to study under Leon Bonnat (1833 ‑ 1922) and Fernand Cormon (1854 ‑ 1924). His academic training in Paris, along with a definite influence of the French Realists and Impressionists, helped mold his fully matured style of carefully modeled figures, plein air technique and bold coloration.

Yeend King lived in London for most of his life however, like many of his contemporaries his heart was 'in the country'. He traveled extensively throughout England and France in search of suitable subject matter. In 1885 he wrote and illustrated an article entitled “A Round in France” for The Magazine of Art - giving both a visual and written tour of the French countryside leading to Brittany.

His specialty was scenes of rustic genre and the countryside ‑ almost never showing the heavily industrialized cities. His paintings depict pretty farm girls (often using his own daughter as a model) at work in the fields or on the farm ‑ much like the French Realist artist Julien Dupré; or women at rest in tranquil landscapes or cottage gardens.

In 1881 he married Edith Lilian Atkinson, daughter of T.L. Atkinson (the mezzotint engraver), and they had one daughter ‑ Lilian (who became an artist).

In 1879, he was elected to the Royal Society of British Artist (RBA) and in 1886 was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolor (of which he later became vice-president). He was also a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil‑Colors and was a frequent exhibitor at all the major exhibition halls; showing 115 works at the RBA, 38 at the RI and 94 at the Royal Academy. Yeend King also exhibited paintings throughout Europe and the United States ‑ winning medals in Paris, Berlin and Chicago.

The editor of The Magazine of Art made the following comments about his painting entitled Loiterers that was displayed at the Exhibition of British Artists in 1883:

Mr. Yeend King’s “Loiterers” – two young girls among the sand hills on the shore of a summer sea under a sultry sky, with the sense of glowing heat and lassitude rendered with power and breadth.

It was at the Royal Academy exhibit of 1897 that the Council of the RA, as trustees for the permanent collection in New South Wales, purchased The Garden by the River and in 1898 the Tate Gallery, under the Chantrey Bequest, purchased Milking Time.

Yeend King was an important and influential artist and was noted by the London Times in an article on June 6, 1924 as:

In appearance Yeend King was a contrast to the conventional idea of an artist, being clean‑shaven, wearing his hair short, and having a genial smile and a great fund of humor. Like most painters, however, he was a real Bohemian, with a wonderful collection of funny stories, which he told well. He was seldom without a snuff-box, although he himself was not a constant snuff-taker.

He died in June 1924 at the age of 68. Works in public collections:

From Green to Gold (c.1889) - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Landscape with a Windmill - Leicestershire Museums & Art Galleries, Leicester River Banks and Blossoms (1909) – Rochdale Art Gallery, England A Cottage Garden, Braemar – Stockport Art Gallery, England The Woodyard – Leeds City Art Galleries, England Landscape – City Art Gallery, Manchester Lathkill Dale, Derbyshire – Graves Art Gallery, England Milking Time – Tate Gallery, England Girls Herding Geese – Oldham Art Gallery, England The Millstream - Oldham Art Gallery, England