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Young Beauty by the Old Mill Stream

Original Oil Painting on Board

by Henry John Yeend King (1955 - 1924)

  • Auction Record £84,000 GBP
  • Signed lower right
  • 'Gallery' condition
  • Painting - 61cm (24") x 46cm (18")
  • Frame - 76cm (30") x 61cm (24")

Lot Notes

An extremely fine example of the landscape paintings of highly regarded British Realist painter Henry John Yeend King.  The painting has a highly detailed composition and is executed in King's wonderfully accomplished style.  The painting depicts a young beauty on a bridge overlooking a stream in a summer landscape with the mill building beyond, the subject is most attractive and a very good example of the artist's work.  The painting is signed lower right.

Yeend King's work is highly collectible many thousands of pounds at auction. Please see the snapshots of auction results in the photograph section of this listing.

Condition

The painting is in very fine 'gallery' condition; clean, most attractive and entirely original, presented in a wood and gilt composite frame, the frame with minor losses.

Artist Information

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). 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.  In 1879, he was elected to the Royal Society of British Artist (RBA) and in 1886 he 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. 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. He died on June 10, 1924 at the age of 68.

General Information

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Priory Fine Art specialises in 17th - 20th Century British and European Fine Art. Our team have a combined experience of over 80 years in the field of fine art. We issue a certificate of authenticity with every painting that we sell.

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