Charles Napier Hemy

Charles Napier Hemy, "Among the Shingle at Clovelly", oil on canvas, 1864. Tyne & Wear Museums. Pure bright colour and sharp detail create the effect of light flooding the landscape / La pureté et la luminosité de la couleur ainsi que le détail des formes crée cet effet de lumière inondant le paysage.
Charles Napier Hemy was a British painter, born on May 24, 1841, at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
He was trained in the Newcastle School of Art, in the Antwerp Academy (Belgium) and in the studio of Baro Leys (a Belgian painter and printmaker). Charles Napier Hemy has produced some figure subjects and landscapes, but is best known by his admirable marine paintings. His intimate knowledge of the sea was central to his art – the ocean’s swell, its power, weight, strength and dangers are all brilliantly captured.
With his brothers, who were also artists, he lived and worked at Sea View House in Toll Square, North Shields, from where the three painters submitted pictures to exhibitions in London. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1898, associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1890 and member in 1897. Two of his paintings, "Pilchards" (1897) and "London River" (1904), are in the Tate collections. He died of pneumonia in 1917.

Charles Napier Hemy, "Pilchards", oil on canvas, 1897. Tate, London (U.K.).
Charles Napier Hemy était un peintre britannique, né le 24 mai 1841 à Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Il fut formé à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Newcastle, à l'Académie d'Anvers et dans l'atelier du Baron Leys (un peintre et imprimeur belge). Charles Napier Hemy a produit quelques portraits et paysages mais est davantage célèbre pour ses admirables marines. La connaissance précise de la mer était au centre de son art - la houle de l'océan, son pouvoir, son poids, sa force et ses dangers sont tous brillamment représentés.
Accompagné de ses frères, qui étaient également artistes, il vécut et travailla face à la mer à Toll Square, dans le North Shields, d'où les trois peintres envoyaient leurs oeuvres pour les expositions organisées à Londres. Napier Hemy fut élu associé de la "Royal Academy" en 1898, associé de la "Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours" en 1890 et membre en 1897. Deux de ses toiles, "Pilchards" (1897) et "London River" (1904), font partie de la collection de la Tate Gallery. Il mourut d'une pneumonie en 1917.

Charles Napier Hemy, "London River", oil on canvas, 1904. Tate, London (U.K.).




