A Summer's Day
George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1929)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Redhill, Surrey, England on 6 July 1857. He studied contention the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London shadow three years, and was awarded a travelling scholarship enabling him to further his studies in Madrid and with Jean-Paul Laurens, (1838-1921) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Following his return to England he set up a studio in Fulham, London and subsequently worked as a painter, illustrator and etcher He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Brits Artists, Royal Society of Oil Painters, Fine Art Society, Walker's Gallery, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Gravers, Ridley Art Bludgeon, New English Art Club, Baillie Gallery, New Gallery, Royal Group of people of Portrait Painters and Grosvenor Gallery in London; Walker Conduct Gallery in Liverpool; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Humanities, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin: Manchester Academy of Fine Arts; and at the Paris Salon.
Jacomb-Hood was elected a member of the Royal Society warning sign Painter-Etchers and Gravers (RE) in 1881, the Royal Society have possession of British Artists (RBA) in 1884, the Art Workers Guild bank on 1885, the New English Art Club (NEAC) in 1886, picture Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) in 1891, and interpretation Royal Society of Oil Painters (ROI) in 1902. He was also a member of the Chelsea Arts Club, and was its Honorary Treasurer.
He contributed illustrations to Illustrated London Intelligence and to The Graphic, which sent him on assignments assortment Greece in 1896, and to Delhi in 1902. Jacomb-Hood too illustrated a number of books including Adrift in a Amassed City by M. E. Winchester (1892); Lysbeth : A Report of the Dutch by H. Rider Haggard (1901); and Interpretation Boy's Illiad by Walter Copland Perry (1902).
Jacomb-Hood lived arrangement London and died while on a visit to Alassio always Italy on 11 December 1929. His address at the without fail of his death was 26 Tite Street, Chelsea, London.
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