A Water Meadow

Artist Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818 - 1910)

Date1859

MediumEtching on paper

Dimensions17.4 x 24.8 cm

ClassificationsPrint

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by John Bedell Stanford MacIlwaine.

Object number449

DescriptionThis is an intaglio print (etching) on paper, of a river-side landscape.

Haden trained as a surgeon and subsequently became a self-taught artist. Between 1845 and 1848 he studied portfolios of prints belonging to a second-hand dealer named Love, who had a shop in Bunhill Row, the old Quaker quarter of London. There he studied the works of the great original engravers, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden and Rembrandt. Haden followed the art of original etching with such vigour that he became not only the foremost British exponent of that art but brought about its revival in England. His strenuous efforts and perseverance, aided by the secretarial ability of Sir WR Drake, resulted in the foundation of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. As president he ruled the society with a strong hand from its first beginnings in 1880.

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