Weather-bound
Weather-bound c1898 by British Painter Arthur John Elsley (1860 – 1952); Ein Maler der späten viktorianischen und edwardianischen Zeit, bekannt für seine idyllischen Genreszenen von verspielten Kindern und ihren Haustieren.
Ein wunderbares nostalgisches Bild von Kindern und ihrem Hund, die im Winterschnee spielen.
Weather-bound ist eine retuschierte Reproduktion der digitalen Kunst alter Meister eines gemeinfreien Bildes.
Info unten abgeleitet von Wikipedia.org
John Elsley, auch bekannt als Arthur John Elsley war ein britischer Maler des späten viktorianischen und edwardianischen Zeitalters, der durch seine idyllischen Genreszenen mit verspielten Kindern und ihren Haustieren berühmt wurde.
Elsley wurde in London geboren, und war eines von sechs Kindern von John Elsley, ein Kutscher und Hobbykünstler, und Emily Freer. Elsleys Vater hatte auf der British Institution Exhibition in . ausgestellt 1845 but later in life contracted tuberculosis which forced him into early retirement.
When Arthur was only eleven years old, he was producing proficient animal studies made during his frequent visits to the London Zoo in Regent’s Park.
At the age of fourteen, he enrolled in the South Kensington School of Art (laterto become the Royal College of Art); and at about this time his eyesight became permanently damaged when he contracted measles.
Elsley took up the post of probationer at the Royal Academy Schools in 1876; and it is here that he was influenced by Frederick Pickersgill (1820 – 1900 Keeper of the Royal Academy), Edward Armitage (1817 – 1896 Professor of Painting), John Marshall (1818 – 1891 Professor of Anatomy), and Henry Bowler (1824 – 1903 Professor of Perspective).
Elsley remained with the Academy Schools until 1882, and then began accepting commissions to do portraits of children and dogs, with an emphasis on horses; with many of his portrait commissions coming from the Benett-Stanford family of politicians living at Preston Manor in Brighton
A large number of Elsley paintings were inspired by sketches he made on frequent cycling trips around the countryside. Im 1878 he exhibited his first picture, entitled “A Portrait of an Old Pony” at the Royal Academy.
His first known published work was a line engraving entitled “April Floods In Eastern Counties” printed in “Young England” magazine in 1885.