Arthur Boyd Houghton
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Arthur Boyd Houghton who usually signed his name A. B. Houghton, was a British
painter (oil
and watercolours) and illustrator.
Born in Kotagiri, Madras, India on 13 March 1836 and died in London on 25 Nov 1875.
His work was varied and was highly regarded during the mid-19th century. Van Gogh singled him out for particular high praise. He traveled to America and Russia
, creating illustrations for The Graphic and for numerous books, including The Arabian Nights and Don Quixote. His work was strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
He played a leading role in the renaissance of wood-engraved illustration during the golden decade of English book illustration (c. 1860-75), when a new school of artists overcame the limitations of the medium. Deeply influenced by the idealism of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he imbued both his paintings and drawings with a haunting blend of poetic realism. He was the fourth son of Captain John Michael Houghton (1797–1874), who served in the East India Company's Marine as a draughtsman.
Paul Hogarth
wrote a biography and monograph (London: Gordon Fraser, 1981)
Work by this artist is held within various public collections incluiding Tate Britain
in London
, British Museum, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as a number of private collections around the world, including some that remain within the family.
Houghton is best known for wood-engravings but also produced a number of oil paintings and watercolours (usually based upon earlier wood-engravings), many of his wife and children. He also wrote a little poetry which was published in his lifetime. When still a child, a shot fired from a toy cannon left him blind in one eye, and unable to sustain his concentration when painting large works for exhibition at the Royal Academy
.
United Kingdom
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painter (oil
Oil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...
and watercolours) and illustrator.
Born in Kotagiri, Madras, India on 13 March 1836 and died in London on 25 Nov 1875.
His work was varied and was highly regarded during the mid-19th century. Van Gogh singled him out for particular high praise. He traveled to America and Russia
Russia
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, creating illustrations for The Graphic and for numerous books, including The Arabian Nights and Don Quixote. His work was strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
He played a leading role in the renaissance of wood-engraved illustration during the golden decade of English book illustration (c. 1860-75), when a new school of artists overcame the limitations of the medium. Deeply influenced by the idealism of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he imbued both his paintings and drawings with a haunting blend of poetic realism. He was the fourth son of Captain John Michael Houghton (1797–1874), who served in the East India Company's Marine as a draughtsman.
Paul Hogarth
Paul Hogarth
Paul Hogarth, OBE, RA was an English artist and illustrator. He is best known for the cover drawings that he prepared in the 1980s for the Penguin edition of Graham Greene's books....
wrote a biography and monograph (London: Gordon Fraser, 1981)
Work by this artist is held within various public collections incluiding Tate Britain
Tate Britain
Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.-History:It...
in London
London
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, British Museum, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as a number of private collections around the world, including some that remain within the family.
Houghton is best known for wood-engravings but also produced a number of oil paintings and watercolours (usually based upon earlier wood-engravings), many of his wife and children. He also wrote a little poetry which was published in his lifetime. When still a child, a shot fired from a toy cannon left him blind in one eye, and unable to sustain his concentration when painting large works for exhibition at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
.