![]() ![]() "Mytton Hall" is broad in treatment, and a fine rendering of a shady avenue of yew trees leading to an old manor-house in sunlight. Of his original plates, more than 250 in number, one of the most notable was the large "Breaking up of the Agamemnon."Īn early plate, rare and most beautiful, is "Thames Fisherman". Turner's "Calais Pier," which is a classical example of what interpretative work can do in black and white. Even when working from a picture his personality dominates the plate, as for example in the large plate he etched after J.M.W. Notwithstanding his study of the old masters of his art, Haden's own plates were very individual, and are particularly noticeable for a fine original treatment of landscape subjects, free and open in line, clear and well divided in mass, and full of a noble and dignified style of his own. As president he ruled the society with a strong hand from its first beginnings in 1880. His strenuous efforts and perseverance, aided by the secretarial ability of Sir WR Drake, resulted in the foundation of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. Haden followed the art of original etching with such vigour that he became not only the foremost British exponent of that art but brought about its revival in England. The relationship and project did not last. A press was installed there and for a while Haden and Whistler collaborated on a series of etchings of the Thames. Haden's printmaking was invigorated by his much younger brother-in-law, James Whistler, at the Haden home in Sloane Street in 1855. His reasons were founded upon the results of a study of the master's works in chronological order, and are clearly expressed in his monograph, The Etched Work of Rembrandt critically reconsidered, privately printed in 1877, and in The Etched Work of Rembrandt True and False (1895). By lecture and book, and with the aid of the memorable exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1877, he tried to give a true reflection of Rembrandt's work, giving a nobler idea of the master's mind by taking away from the list of his works many dull and unseemly plates that had long been included in the lists. These studies, besides influencing his original work, led to his important monograph on the etched work of Rembrandt. Arranging the prints in chronological order, he studied the works of the great original engravers, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden and Rembrandt. Haden attended no art school and had no art teachers, but between 18 he studied portfolios of prints belonging to a second-hand dealer named Love, who had a shop in Bunhill Row, the old Quaker quarter of London. In 1843-1844, with his friends Duval, Le Cannes and Colonel Guibout, he travelled in Italy and made his first sketches from nature. He was admitted as a member of the College of Surgeons in London in 1842. ![]() He was educated at Derby School, Christ's Hospital, and University College, London, and also studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, where he took his degree in 1840. He was born in London, his father, Charles Thomas Haden, being a well-known doctor and lover of music. Sir Francis Seymour Haden (16 September 1818 - 1 June 1910), was an English surgeon, best known as an etcher. Francis Seymour Haden used this anagram of his own name early in his career as an artist, in order to retain his anonymity and preserve his professional reputation as a surgeon. An impression was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861 under Haden’s pseudonym, H. II was one of the most highly praised landscape prints of the etching revival. A rich, brilliant proof with drypoint burr printed on white laid paper. Illustrated: Keppel The Golden Age of Engraving Print Collector's Quarterly 1 (1911): 18 : Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940. This state is prior to publication in Études à l'Eau-Forte. Gutekunst, the dealer who inherited the rights to sell all of Francis Seymour Haden's remaining prints upon his death, noted on the front of his catalogue in July 1911: "It may be useful to add that those impressions of Sir Seymour Haden's early and rare etchings, which were published in portfolio form in Paris in 1865-66, under the title Études à l'eau-forte have, with the exception of one or two sets, never been signed in autograph by Sir Seymour, and do not, of course, bear any stamp of any kind." Although Gutekunst had impressions of the majority of Haden's works for sale, he had no remaining impressions of Mytton Hall. Haden used to stay there when he went salmon fishing. Mytton Hall is a fifteenth century mansion house situated on the River Ribble, at Whalley near Blackburn, Lancashire. ![]() An extremely rich impression printed on fine laid paper. Illustrated: Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940. As published in Études à l'eau-forte XXIV. ![]()
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