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Female standing nude, three quarter view, 1890’s

SKU: 3571

Oil on canvas, 18 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (47 x 28.6 cm.)

Presentation:
unframed

Size:
Height – 47cm x Width – 28.6cm

DESCRIPTION

 Printmaker and painter, born in Liverpool, who in 1885 took up a
two-year scholarship at Herkomer’s School in Bushey, where he remained
until 1895. Later lived on the south coast, notably at Seaford, Sussex.
While in Bushey Hirst learned his engraving and mezzotint skills at the
fine art printing studios of H T Cox, and after he moved he continued to
use the studios for mezzotinting, at which he was an expert. His
reputation was mainly as a mezzotint engraver of works by Gainsborough,
Lawrence, Watteau and Romney, and in 1917 he was called as an expert
witness in a notable court case in which an attribution was disputed.
(Hirst’s opinion that the work was not by Romney was eventually borne
out.) Hirst was made an associate of the RE in 1931. Frost & Reed
published his works Sea Melodies and Capture and Agnew The Mall and
Gamme d’Amour. Showed extensively at RA, also at Fine Art Society, Abber
Gallery and RI, but a lack of interest in original mezzotints after
World War II prompted Hirst’s executors to burn most of his studio
collection. Some of what remained was exhibited in Three Bushey Artists
by the Bushey Museum Trust in 1991.

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THE ARTIST

Norman Hirst
Norman
Hirst
1862 - 1956

Printmaker and painter, born in Liverpool, who in 1885 took up a two-year scholarship at Herkomer’s School in Bushey, where he remained until 1895. Later lived on the south coast, notably at Seaford, Sussex. While in Bushey Hirst learned his engraving and mezzotint skills at the fine art printing studios of H T Cox, and after he moved he continued to use the studios for mezzotinting, at which he was an expert. His reputation was mainly as a mezzotint engraver of works by Gainsborough, Lawrence, Watteau and Romney, and in 1917 he was called as an expert witness in a notable court case in which an attribution was disputed. (Hirst’s opinion that the work was not by Romney was eventually borne out.) Hirst was made an associate of the RE in 1931. Frost & Reed published his works Sea Melodies and Capture and Agnew The Mall and Gamme d’Amour. Showed extensively at RA, also at Fine Art Society, Abber Gallery and RI, but a lack of interest in original mezzotints after World War II prompted Hirst’s executors to burn most of his studio collection. Some of what remained was exhibited in Three Bushey Artists by the Bushey Museum Trust in 1991.

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