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Paul Henry

Paul Henry (1876 - 1958) was active/lived in Ireland.  Paul Henry is known for Post impressionist landscape and figure painting.

Paul Henry (1876-1958)

Henry's landscape painting depicts the terrain of the west of Ireland reduced to its key essentials of sky, bog and turf.  In his use of mass and color, he can be seen as the first Irish post-Impressionist artist - recording the traditional way of life but in a modern style. He is now regarded by many critics as one of the most influential Irish landscape artists of the twentieth century, and an important painter in the history of Irish art.

Born in Belfast, Paul Henry attended the Belfast School of Art after which a family member financed a trip to Paris in 1889, where (like John Lavery) he studied at the Academie Julian and was influenced (later) by the rural realism and plein-air painting of Jean Francois Millet, the Barbizon landscape artist.  Henry spent a relatively short period of time in the French capital but became one of its best-known Irish artists of the time.  He also met Grace Mitchell his wife-to-be, and developed a pa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7006 characters.]  Artist bio

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