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Original etching on cream wove paper. Image size 7.5 x 5.75 inches. Signed on plate with intials lower left side. Published c. 1880. In very good condition with large margins. Includes archival study mat.
Paintings and works of art were often etched in order to create an acceptable reproduction to bind in a book and share with the global art market, either indicating a work for sale or an up and coming artist. The etching we offer is an original vintage print - not a modern reproduction.
(Etching is the process of using strong acid to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal . As an intaglio method of printmaking it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints, and remains widely used today)
Sir Hubert von Herkomer (May 26, 1849 - March 31, 1914), British painter, also a film-director and composer, was born at Waal, in
Bavaria. Lorenz Herkomer, his father and a wood-carver of great ability, left Bavaria in 1851 with his wife and child for the United States, but returned to Europe after six years, and settled in Southampton in 1857.
He lived for some time at Southampton and in the school of art there began his art training; he visited Bavaria with his father in 1865 and briefly studied at the Munich academy, but in 1866 he entered upon a more serious course of study at the South Kensington Schools, and in 1869 exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy.
In 1869, he also began working as an artist for a newly-founded newspaper called The Graphic. By his picture, The Last Muster, at the Academy in 1875, he definitely established his position as an artist of high distinction. He was elected an associate of the Academy in 1879, and academician in 1890; an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colors in 1893, and a full member in 1894; and in 1885 he was appointed Slade professor at Oxford.
He exhibited a very large number of memorable portraits, figure subjects and landscapes, in oil and watercolor; he achieved marked success as a worker in enamel, as an etcher, mezzotint engraver and illustrative draughtsman; and he exercised wide influence upon art education by means of the Herkomer School (Incorporated), at Bushey, which he founded in 1883 and directed without payment until 1904, when he retired. It was then voluntarily wound up, and is now defunct.
Herkomer's massive house, Lululaund, named after Lulu his second of three wives, served as his studio, school and even theatre, where he put on productions of his own plays and musical compositions.
Two of his pictures, Found (1885) and The Chapel of the Charterhouse (1889), are in the Tate Gallery. In 1907, he received the honorary degree of DCL at Oxford, and a knighthood was conferred upon him by the king in addition to the commandership of the Royal Victorian Order with which he was already decorated.
Herkomer died at Budleigh Salterton on 31 March 1914 and was buried in St James''s church, Bushey.
The largest collection of his work is held by Bushey Museum, UK and in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.
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