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1869 Chester, England - 1950/52. Known for: Landscape, figure, and harbor painter, etcher.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 was... Read full biography
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 was elected RBA and RMS in 1896, RI in 1898, ROI in 1909, RE in 1911 and a member of the Society of 25 Artists and in the late 1940's chairman of the E... Read full biography
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Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Still Life