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Biography of Henry Herbert La Thangue (1859–1929)
English painter, born in London on 19 January 1859. La Thangue attended Dulwich College where he met fellow painters Stanhope Forbes and Frederick Goodall. He studied painting at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy schools. He achieved early success and recognition, winning a gold medal in 1879. Before his time at the Royal Academy schools, La Thangue supplemented his training with a spell in Paris. For three years, he worked in the studio of Jean Léon Gérome (1824–1904), a painter in the Classical style and upholder of the academic tradition. Paradoxically, it was also during this period that La Thangue became impressed by the Barbizon school of open-air landscape painters, the precursors of the Impressionists of whom Gérome was a vehement critic. On his return to London, La Thangue gained a reputation as a painter of landscapes and rustic genre scenes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists and the Institute of Painters in Oils. Later, however, he became a vocal opponent of the Royal Academy, exhibiting with the New English Art Club. He lived for a time in Norfolk, moving later to Bosham, in Sussex. Walter Sickert (1860–1942) was among the generation of early 20th-century artists who particularly admired the freedom and expressive nature of his work. He died in London on 21 December 1929.
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