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LAWSON, CECIL GORDON (1851—1882)

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LAWSON, See also:CECIL See also:GORDON (1851—1882) , See also:English landscape painter, was the youngest son of See also:William Lawson of See also:Edinburgh, esteemed as a portrait painter. His See also:mother also was known for her See also:flower pieces. He was See also:born near See also:Shrewsbury on the 3rd of See also:December 1851. Two of his See also:brothers (one of them, See also:Malcolm, a See also:clever musician and See also:song-writer) were trained as artists, and Cecil was from childhood devoted to See also:art with the intensity of a serious nature. Soon after his See also:birth the Lawsons moved to See also:London. Lawson's first See also:works were studies of See also:fruit, See also:flowers, &c., in the manner of W. See also:Hunt; followed by See also:riverside See also:Chelsea subjects. His first exhibit at the Royal See also:Academy (187o) was " See also:Cheyne Walk," and in 1871 he sent two other Chelsea subjects. These gained full recognition from See also:fellow-artists, if not from the public. Among his See also:friends were now numbered Fred See also:Walker, G. J. See also:Pinwell and their associates.

Following them, he made a certain number of drawings for See also:

wood-See also:engraving. Lawson's Chelsea pictures had been painted in somewhat See also:low and sombre tones; in the " Hymn to See also:Spring " of 1872 (rejected by the Academy) he turned to a more joyous See also:play of See also:colour, helped by See also:work in more romantic scenes in See also:North See also:Wales and See also:Ireland. See also:Early in 1874 he made a See also:short tour in See also:Holland, See also:Belgium and See also:Paris; and in the summer he painted his large " See also:Hop Gardens of See also:England." This was much praised at the Academy of 1876. But Lawson's See also:triumph was with the See also:great luxuriant See also:canvas " The See also:Minister's See also:Garden," exhibited in 1878 at the Grosvenor See also:Gallery, and now in the See also:Manchester Art Gallery. This was followed by several works conceived in a new and tragic See also:mood. His See also:health began to fail, but he worked on. He married in 1899 the daughter of Birnie See also:Philip, and settled at See also:Haslemere. His later subjects are from this neighbourhood (the most famous being " The See also:August See also:Moon," now in the See also:National Gallery of See also:British Art) or from See also:Yorkshire. Towards the end of 1881 he went to the See also:Riviera, returned in the spring, and died at Haslemere on the loth of See also:June 1882. Lawson may be said to have restored to English landscape the tradition of See also:Gainsborough, See also:Crome and See also:Constable, infused with an imaginative intensity of his own. Among English landscape painters of the latter See also:part of the 19th See also:century his is in many respects the most interesting name. See E.

W. See also:

Gosse, Cecil Lawson, a Memoir (1883); Heseltine See also:Owen, " In Memoriam: Cecil Gordon Lawson," See also:Magazine of Art (1894). (L.

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