HUGE OLD PAINTING By William Lee Hankey Antique 19th/20th Century British

 
Painting REF 110435

( Late 19th early 20th century )

 Good Condition canvas

Cleaned & Re-vanished
Ready to hang, frame is in prefect condition , see pictures

Fine Original Antique 19th Century British OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING

This is one of hankeys largest pieces and should be in a Museum ,Romantic Harbour Scene in a beautiful white frame

( 19th century )

Title: Traditional hankey scene 

Artist: William Lee Hankey (1869–1952) RWS,RI,ROI,RE,NS

Signed : bottom Right

Provenance: john Castagno art
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Medium : Oil painting on canvas

Condition: Very Good

Country: British school

Frame size : 40.5 in x 32.5 in
( 103 cm x 83 cm)

Canvas size : 36" x 28"

With an estimate of £9000 - £10000 in a London west end Gallery

Description: William Lee Hankey (1869–1952) RWS,RI,ROI,RE,NS was a British painter and book illustrator. He specialized in landscapes, character studies and portraits of pastoral life, particularly in studies of mothers with young children such as "We’ve Been in the Meadows All Day"​He was born in Chester and worked as a designer after leaving school. He studied art in the evenings at the Chester School of Art (now the Department of Art and Design at University of Chester), then at the Royal College of Art. Later in Paris he became influenced by the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage, who also favoured rustic scenes depicted in a realistic but sentimental style. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896 and was President of the London Sketch Club from 1902 to 1904. He stayed in France in the early 1900s, painting many of his works in Brittany and Normandy, where he depicted a peasant lifestyle which was already disappearing in England. From 1904 until well after World War I he maintained a studio at the Etaples art colony.​It was Hankey's black and white and coloured etchings of the people of Étaples, several developed from these paintings, which gained him a reputation as 'one of the most gifted of the figurative printmakers working in original dry point during the first thirty years of the 20th century'. One that is particularly striking for its stylistic presentation was "The Refugees", his contribution to raising awareness of the consequences for ordinary people of the German invasion of France and Belgium in 1914. He went on to serve with the Artists' Rifles from 1915 to 1918.In Britain he had been associated with the Newlyn School, a group of English artists based in the titular village in Cornwall who were themselves influenced by the romantic poets such as Wordsworth and Keats.