Lee Hankey is most noted as painter and etcher of French Harbour scenes and studies of English country life. He first studied at Chester School of Art, then at RCA and concluded his education in Paris. Although Hankey lived for the most part in London, keeping a studio in Chelsea, he often spent long periods travelling throughout Europe and from 1904 onwards kept a house in Etaples in France. Here he stayed for much of the year and produced his main body of work. He returned to England upon the outbreak of the First World War to serve with the Artists' Rifles. He exhibited widely, at all the main London galleries including the Leicester, Fine Art Society and Lefevre Galleries; also at the Royal Academy, Goupil Gallery and ROI. He w...