Code: 11685
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William Lee Hankey (1869-1952) RWS,RI,ROI,RE,NS was a British painter and book illustrator. He specialized in landscapes, character studies and portraits of pastoral life. He was born in Chester and worked as a designer after leaving school. He studied art in the evenings at the Chester School of Art then at the Royal College of Art. Later in Paris he became influenced by the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896. He was President of the London Sketch Club from 1902 to 1904 and stayed in France in the early 1900s painting many of his works in Brittany and Normandy. From 1904 until well after World War I he maintained a studio at the Etaples art colony. In Britain he had been associated with the Newlyn School, a group of English artists based in Cornwall who were themselves influenced by the romantic poets such as Wordsworth and Keats.
"The Copse, Evening" is an attractive watercolour measuring 9"x 13". It is signed lower left and is framed giving an overall size of 16"x 20".
