Henry John Yeend King: Haymaking

Henry John Yeend King (1855-1924) was an important Victorian genre and landscape artist. His academic training in Paris, along with a definite influence of the French Realists and Impressionists, helped mold his fully matured style of carefully modeled figures, plein air technique and bold coloration.

Yeend King lived in London for most of his life however, like many of his contemporaries his heart was in the country. He traveled extensively throughout England and France in search of suitable subject matter. His specialty was scenes of rustic genre and the countryside almost never showing the heavily industrialized cities. His paintings depict pretty farm girls at work in the fields or on the farm, much like the French Realist artist Julien Dupré, or women at rest in tranquil landscapes or cottage gardens.

In 1879, he was elected to the Royal Society of British Artist and in 1886 he was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, of which he later became vice-president. He was also a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil-Colours and was a frequent exhibitor at all the major exhibition halls.

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HC-1436: card size 7" x 5" (178mm x 127mm)