BCD HParty Making Friends Yeend King DSC07567
This popular and well respected BCD member brought two Pears jigsaws from his large collection.
This is 'Making Friends', a famous Pears Print of a charming Victorian painting showing two small girls feeding the ducks beside the river. This print was issued with the 1900 Pears Christmas Annual and is by the artist Yeend King.
I have a vintage version of this painting, cut for an unknown Margaret probably by Mrs Apperly, and have collected some others together in a collage.
John Henry Yeend King 1855–1924
Landscape and genre painter in oil and watercolour. Born 21 August 1855 in London. Apprenticed for three years to the firm of O'Connor, glass painters; afterwards studied painting under William Bromley, and in Paris under Bonnat and Cormon. Exhibited at the R.A. from 1876; member of the R.B.A. 1879; member and, later, Vice-President of the R.I. 1886; member of the R.O.I. Died in London 10 June 1924."
His specialty was scenes of rustic genre and the countryside showing pretty farm girls (often using his own daughter as a model) at work in the fields or on the farm - much like the French Realist artist Julien Dupré; or women at rest in tranquil landscapes or cottage gardens. In 1881 he married Edith Lilian Atkinson, daughter of T.L. Atkinson (the mezzotint engraver), and they had one daughter - Lilian (who also became an artist).
BCD HParty Making Friends Yeend King DSC07567
This popular and well respected BCD member brought two Pears jigsaws from his large collection.
This is 'Making Friends', a famous Pears Print of a charming Victorian painting showing two small girls feeding the ducks beside the river. This print was issued with the 1900 Pears Christmas Annual and is by the artist Yeend King.
I have a vintage version of this painting, cut for an unknown Margaret probably by Mrs Apperly, and have collected some others together in a collage.
John Henry Yeend King 1855–1924
Landscape and genre painter in oil and watercolour. Born 21 August 1855 in London. Apprenticed for three years to the firm of O'Connor, glass painters; afterwards studied painting under William Bromley, and in Paris under Bonnat and Cormon. Exhibited at the R.A. from 1876; member of the R.B.A. 1879; member and, later, Vice-President of the R.I. 1886; member of the R.O.I. Died in London 10 June 1924."
His specialty was scenes of rustic genre and the countryside showing pretty farm girls (often using his own daughter as a model) at work in the fields or on the farm - much like the French Realist artist Julien Dupré; or women at rest in tranquil landscapes or cottage gardens. In 1881 he married Edith Lilian Atkinson, daughter of T.L. Atkinson (the mezzotint engraver), and they had one daughter - Lilian (who also became an artist).