George Henry (painter)

{{Short description|Scottish painter (1858–1943)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{more footnotes|date=December 2013}} {{Infobox artist | name = George Henry | image = George Henry.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1858|3|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = Irvine, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|12|23|1858|3|14|df=yes}} | death_place = London, England | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | spouse = | relatives = | field = | training = | alma_mater = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | elected = | website =  }} thumb|Poppies by George Henry, 1891 right|thumb|The head of the Holy Loch thumb|Geisha Girl by George Henry (detail) 1894, National Gallery of Scotland thumb|right|The Japanese Baby by George Henry 1893 (watercolour) '''George Henry''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RA}} (1858–1943) was a Scottish painter, one of the most prominent of the Glasgow School.<ref>The Dictionary of Scottish Painters. 1600 to the present. Paul Harris and Julian Halsby. Canongate Publishing. 1990.</ref><ref>Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture. Peter J. M. McEwan. Antique Collectors Club. 1994.</ref>

==Life== Henry was born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, later in Macgregor's studio, but learned most from his nature studies at Kirkcudbright. His father's name was Hendry and George dropped the "d" from his surname as a young man.

He was influenced also by his collaboration with E. A. Hornel in such works as "The Druids" (1887), Grosvenor Gallery, London. His "Galloway Landscape" was epoch-making at Glasgow by reason of its higher key of colour and essentially decorative character. Following these tendencies, the two friends spent a year and a half in Japan.

Henry's importance consists in his influence in the Glasgow school in the direction of richer and more decorative color. In addition to genre and landscape, he also painted portraits, more distinguished by technical ability than by rendition of character. Henry's pictures in public collections include ''The Blue Gown'', Museum of Cape Town, ''The Grey Hat'', at the Royal Scottish Academy,<ref>{{cite web |title=George Henry RSA |url=https://www.royalscottishacademy.org/artists/1578-george-henry-rsa/installation_shots |publisher=Royal Scottish Academy |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> two portraits at Glasgow, and one at Montreal. He was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Academy (1902) and an associate of the Royal Academy.

''The Black Hat'', a portrait of an Edwardian woman, was included in ''Modern Britain'', a 2007 exhibition at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

In 1893 he went to Japan with Edward Atkinson Hornel, another of the Glasgow Boys, for an 18-month study tour. His work thereafter had a strong flavour of Orientalism.

==Publications== * Martin, ''The Glasgow School of Painting'' (London, 1897) * Caw, ''Scottish Painting, Past and Present'' (Edinburgh, 1908)

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category|George Henry}} * {{Art UK bio}} *[http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst1376.html Gazetteer for Scotland] *[http://exploreart.co.uk/artist_display.asp?SF1=sort_name&ST1=HENRYGEORGE George Henry's biography & artwork from the Permanent Collection of the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries, Scotland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013212309/http://exploreart.co.uk/artist_display.asp?SF1=sort_name&ST1=HENRYGEORGE |date=13 October 2013 }} biography & virtual representation of George Henry's artwork of Gracefield Arts Centre at exploreart.co.uk * [http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5717 Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Henry, George}} Category:19th-century Scottish painters Category:Scottish male painters Category:20th-century Scottish painters Category:Royal Academicians Category:1858 births Category:1943 deaths Category:People from Irvine, North Ayrshire Category:Glasgow School Category:Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Category:Royal Scottish Academicians Category:19th-century Scottish male artists Category:20th-century Scottish male artists