Ernest William Haslehust (12 Nov 1866 - 3 July 1949) was an English landscape painter and book illustrator who worked in watercolours

Watercolor painting

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Life and work

Haslehust was born in Walthamstow

Walthamstow

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 in Essex

Essex

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 (now part of Greater London

Greater London

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), the son of William Henry Haslehust, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art

Slade School of Fine Art

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 in London

London

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 under Alphonse Legros

Alphonse Legros

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. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

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 (RI), Royal Society of British Artists

Royal Society of British Artists

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 (RBA), Royal West of England Academy

Royal West of England Academy

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 (RWA) and Royal British Colonial Society of Artists (RBC), and exhibited regularly at many venues including the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

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 in London. He also designed posters for the LNER and LMS

London, Midland and Scottish Railway

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 railway companies, and his art featured in many magazines of the day including the Illustrated London News

Illustrated London News

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 and The Tatler.

He was a prolific painter of British landscapes in watercolor and is perhaps best remembered for illustrating 36 volumes of the well-known "Beautiful England

Beautiful England

"Beautiful England" was the title of a series of short, illustrated travel/guide books first published in Britain by Blackie & Son around 1910 and continuing in print until the 1950s...

" series of travel books published by Blackie and Son Limited

Blackie and Son Limited

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 (see titles below).

Books illustrated by Haslehust

• Barwell, Noel. Cambridge (Blackie & Son, 1911).
• Benson, George. York (Dana Estes & Co Boston).
• Bradley, A. G. The English Lakes (Blackie & Son, 1910)
• Danks, William. Canterbury (Blackie & Son, 1910)
• Edwards, Charles & Bennett, J. H. E. Chester (Blackie & Son, 1911)
• Edwards, Charles. Our beautiful homeland: Hereford, Chester, Oxford, Warwick & Leamington (Gresham, Ca. 1920s)
• Eyre-Todd, George. Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, and the Trossachs (Blackie & Son, 1922).
• Geddie, John. The Scott Country (Blackie & Son, 1938.)
• Gilchrist, Murray. The Dukeries (Blackie and Son, 1913).
• Gilchrist, Murray. The Peak District London Blackie, 1911.
• Godfrey, Elizabeth. The New Forest (Blackie & Son, 1912).
• Heath, Sidney. The Cornish Riviera (Blackie and Son, 1911).
• Heath, Sidney. Winchester (Blackie & Son, 1911).
• Heath, Sidney. Exeter (Blackie & Son, 1912).
• Heath, Sidney. Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch (Blackie & Son, 1915).
• Heath, Sidney. The Heart of Wessex (Blackie & Son).
• Heath, Sidney. Swanage and District (Blackie & Son, 1915).
• Higgins, Walter. Hastings and neighbourhood (Blackie & Son, 1920)
• How, Frederick Douglas. Oxford (Blackie & Son, 1910).
• Jerrold, Walter. Shakespeare Land (Dana Estes & Co. Boston).
• Jerrold, Walter. Norwich and the Broads (Blackie & Son, 1910).
• Jerrold, Walter. Hampton Court (Blackie & Son, 1912)
• Jerrold, Walter. The Thames (Blackie & Son, 1910)
• Jerrold, Walter. Folkestone and Dover (Blackie & Son, 1920).
• Jerrold, Walter. The Heart of London (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1924)
• Jerrold, Walter. Through London's highways (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1924)
• Jerrold, Walter. In London's by-ways (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1925)
• Jerrold, Walter. Rambles in Greater London (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1925)
• Morley, George. Warwick and Leamington (New York: Dodge ca. 1920).
• Nicklin, J. A. Dickens Land (Blackie & Son, 1911)
• Salmon, Arthur Leslie. Bath and Wells (New York Dodge Pub. Co. 1914).
• Salmon, Arthur Leslie. Dartmoor (Blackie and son, 1913).
• Thomas, Edward. Windsor Castle (Dana Estes & Co. 1921).
• Thomas, Edward. The Isle of Wight (Blackie & Son, 1911).
• Thomas, Edward. In Pursuit of Spring (Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1914).

External links

• E W Haslehust - short biography) ("Travelling Art Gallery)
• The wooded track and a young girl beside a duck pond (Watercolour - Christie's
  Christie's
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• A West Country creek (Watercolour - Christie's)
• London & North Eastern Railway poster (Travel posters online)