SIR GEORGE CLAUSEN R.A.,
H.R.B.A., R.I., R.O.I., R.S.W., R.W.S., (1852 – 1944)
“A Quiet Stream”
Watercolour. Signed.
10 ½” x 8 ¾”
IMAGE
Sir George Clausen was a
painter of landscapes, figures, portraits and still life, who lived in London and was knighted in 1927. He studied at the Royal College of Art and South Kensington as well as at the Academie Julian in Paris under Bastien-Lepage. He was the son of a
Danish sculptor and visited Holland and Belgium in 1876, the year of his first Royal Academy exhibit.
As well as becoming a Member of the Royal Academy in 1908 Clausen was also Professor of
Painting at the Royal Academy Schools from 1904 to 1906 and later became
Director of the Schools. The Royal Academy was only one of the many institutions to
which he was elected Member, the others being the Royal Institute (1879), the Royal
Institute of Oil Painters (1883), the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in
Watercolours (1926), and the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (1898)
where 214 of his works were exhibited.
He was also an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists.
He also exhibited at Thomas Agnew and Sons Gallery, the Royal Society of
Artists Birmingham, Barbizon House, Baillie Gallery, Carfax and Co. Gallery,
the Fine Art Society, Grosvenor Gallery, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine
Arts, Goupil Gallery, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Leicester Gallery,
Manchester City Art Gallery, the New Gallery, the New English Art Club, the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Redfern Gallery, the Royal Hibernian
Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy and Arthur Tooth and Sons Gallery. He was a
keen exponent of "plein air" painting, and spent much time on the
farms of Essex. In
1904 Clausen published "Six Lectures on Painting" and in 1906
"Aims and Ideals in Art". Examples of work by George Clausen are in
the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Bedford, Blackburn Art Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Glasgow Art Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery, City Art Gallery Manchester, New Gallery Scotland, Newport Art Gallery and Ulster Museum. The Chantry Bequest have purchased
"The Girl at the Gate" 1890, "The Gleaners Returning" 1908,
"The Road, Winter Morning" 1923, "A Dancer" 1929 and
"My Back Garden" 1940 - all works by Sir George Clausen.
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