Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/charles-napier-hemy-248" aria-label="More by Charles Napier Hemy" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Charles Napier Hemy</a>
Evening Grey
Presented by Godwin King 1938
adults
agriculture, gardening & fishing
architecture
beehive
contemplation
cottage
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
evening
flower
garden
garden structures
landscape
objects
people
plants and flowers
residential
times of the day
woman
wooded
<p>Hemy studied art in Newcastle but tried first to be a sailor and then a monk before committing himself to painting. His early works, including this one, show a Pre-Raphaelite concern with natural detail fused with a sense of melancholy. Hemy took the picture with him when he went to Antwerp in 1867 to study under the Belgian academic artist Baron Leys, who also taught Alma-Tadema and Tissot. 'Evening Grey' was painted at Clovelly in north Devon. In later life Hemy became a succesful marine artist, working from a large house in Falmouth.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
17 June 2006 – 9 September 2006
2006-09-09
17 June 2006 – 9 September 2006
2006-09-09
2006-06-17
Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, UK)
23 September 2006 – 19 November 2006
2006-11-19
2006-09-23
Ferens Art Gallery (Hull, UK)
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections
2 December 2006 – 27 January 2007
2007-01-27
2006-12-02
Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery (Sunderland, UK)
10 February 2007 – 14 April 2007
2007-04-14
2007-02-10
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum (Birkenhead, UK)
http://www.wirral.gov.uk/ed/Williamson.htm
2006-06-17
Master of the Sea: Charles Napier Hemy
Loan-out
27 May 2023 – 14 October 2023
2023-10-14
27 May 2023 – 14 October 2023
2023-10-14
2023-05-27
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
2023-05-27
Essence of Nature: Pre-Raphaelites to British Impressionists
Loan-out
3 March 2025 – 22 June 2025
2025-06-22
3 March 2025 – 22 June 2025
2025-06-22
2025-03-03
Museum Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden, Germany)
2025-03-03
Honey Yellow - The Bee in Art. From the Renaissance to the Present
Loan-out
Evening Grey
support: 571 × 914 mm
frame: 842 × 1199 × 90 mm
Presented by Godwin King 1938
<p>Hemy studied art in Newcastle but tried first to be a sailor and then a monk before committing himself to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>. His early works, including this one, show a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pre-raphaelite" title="Glossary definition for 'Pre-Raphaelite'"><span>Pre-Raphaelite</span></a> concern with natural detail fused with a sense of melancholy. Hemy took the picture with him when he went to Antwerp in 1867 to study under the Belgian <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/academic-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Academic art'"><span>academic</span></a> artist Baron Leys, who also taught Alma-Tadema and Tissot. 'Evening Grey' was painted at Clovelly in north Devon. In later life Hemy became a succesful marine artist, working from a large house in Falmouth.</p>
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