George Henry (1858-1943)

Aliases: George (1858) Henry

Professions: Landscape painter; Genre Painter; Portrait painter; Painter

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  George Henry, R.A., R.S.A., R.S.W. , 1858-1943 playmates oil on canvas

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  George Henry, R.A., R.S.A., R.S.W. 1858-1943 , in the bluebell wood

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  GEORGE HENRY, R.S.A., R.A., R.S.W. 1858-1943

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  George Henry, R.A., R.S.A. (1858-1943)

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George Henry Biography

(b Ayrshire, 1858; d London, 23 Dec 1943). Scottish painter. He trained at the Glasgow School of Art and painted in the early 1880s in W. Y. Macgregor’s life studio and outdoors with James Guthrie, Joseph Crawhall and E. A. Walton. This resulted in his first major exhibit, Head of the Holy Loch (1882; Glasgow, A.G. & Mus.). Study in Paris at the Académie Julian in 1883 and 1886 confirmed his realist style deriving from Jules Bastien-Lepage and seen, for instance, in Cottar’s Garden (1885; Broughton House, Dumfries & Galloway). In his Galloway Landscape (1889; Glasgow, A.G. & Mus.), however, he abandoned this for his mature decorative style of heightened impasto colour and vigorous arabesque design. This was further developed in collaboration with E. A. HORNEL in two symbolic paintings, The Druids (1890) and Star in the East (1891; both Glasgow, A.G. & Mus.), and in mural paintings for Glasgow buildings, such as Granting the First Charter to Glasgow in the City Chambers (1899–1901). Part of the Celtic Revival, The Druids anticipates the search for primitive national origins that took Henry and Hornel to Japan in 1893–4. In his Japanese watercolours and oils, such as At Home in Japan (1894; Glasgow, A.G. & Mus.), Henry explored new features of simplified geometric design. After settling in London in the early 20th century he became popular as a portrait painter, but heavy reliance on Whistler and Velázquez replaced the originality of earlier work.

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