ANTHONY, HENRY MARK (1817 - 1886), landscape painter
Date of birth: 1817
Date of death: 1886
Gender: Male
Occupation: landscape painter
Area of activity: Art and Architecture; Nature and Agriculture
Author: Mary Gwyneth Lewis
Born at Manchester, of Welsh descent. His family moved to Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, where, at the age of 16, he was apprenticed to a physician. Inheriting private means he gave up the profession of medicine and spent about ten years on the Continent studying art. During those years he came under the influence of Corot and Jules Dupré. Between 1837 and 1884 he exhibited 129 pictures, that shown at the Royal Academy in 1837 being ' A view on the Rhaidha [sic] Glamorganshire.' Amongst examples of his work in the National Museum of Wales is a view of Tintern abbey. From 1858 Anthony resided at Hampstead, where he died 2 December 1886.
Author
- Mary Gwyneth Lewis, (1912 - 1999)
- T. M. Rees, Welsh painters, engravers and sculptors, 1527–1911 (1912)
- T. M. Rees, Notable Welshmen (1700–1900) (1908)
- Michael Bryan, Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers, 1930, 43
- Benezit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & graveurs des tous les temps et de tous les pays, 1948, i, 194
- National Museum of Wales, Catalogue of the pictures and sculpture exihibited in the Cardiff collections Trinity Street (Cardiff 1914)
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: Henry Mark Anthony
Further Reading
Published date: 1959
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