Seashore Roses

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20722

Title

Seashore Roses

Description

A rich and naturalistic paining of three little girls playing amongst sand dunes. The foreground shows three girls in Victorian dress lying amongst wild roses that are growing in the sand dunes. A large expanse of coat stretches out behind them in the background.

Artist / maker

Hornel, Edward Atkinson

Size

122.8 x 154.3cm

Type

Oil painting

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC2/1964

Edward Atkinson Hornel was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, often populated with wide-eyed children.
Edward Hornel was born in Australia of Scottish parents, he was brought up and lived practically all his life in Kirkcudbright, Dumfriesshire.
He studied for three years at the art school in Edinburgh, and for two years at Antwerp. Returning from Antwerp in 1885, he met George Henry and he became with the Glasgow School of artists.
In 1893-94 Hornel and Henry spent a year and a half in Japan, where he learned much about decorative design and spacing.
Hornel's later work became rather formulative, often combining the same group of children in a range of different settings. His painting style was bold, producing rich, textual surface by loading and scraping, smoothing and staining. Hornel's work is refined and atmospheric, and his drawing more naturalistic, combining sensuous appeal with emotional and poetic significance.

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