Claude Lorraine Clark - Artist Info

About Claude Lorraine Clark

Name variants

Claude Cardon, Clark Lne Clark
  • Biography

    Claude Cardon was perhaps the most successful of the Clark family of artists. He was born in 1864 to landscape painter Samuel James Clark and his wife Maria (nee Thornton). He was their first child and Samuel presumably named him Claude Lorraine after the 17th century French master landscape artist Claude Lorrain.

    Claude grew up in Islington with his two brothers and three sisters. Samuel taught the boys to paint and also to play the violin. Claude is first noted as "artist" on the family's census record of 1881 when he was 17. Seven years later he married Lotte Maud Whetstone and they moved to 10 Witherington Road, Islington.

    He remained at this address until 1895 when he moved to Rochester Square in Camden. In 1901 Claude w...

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