Sunday, July 12, 2009

Henry John Yeend King




[Crossing the Bridge]
signed YEEND KING
oil on canvas
[The Path by the Mill] exhib. 1899
oil on canvas
King studied under the London genre painter William Bromley and with Louis Joseph Florentin Bonnat and Fernand Cormon in Patris where his plein air* technique seems to have been established. He was based in London and exhibited at the RA and elsewhere.
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* En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air", and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors.

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