Ernest William Haslehust (12 November 1866 – 3 July 1949) was an English

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compos ...

and book illustrator who worked in

watercolours Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to ...

.Times Obituary, 8 July 1949
(sourced 31 Oct 2009).

Life and work

Haslehust was born in

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in Essex (now part of

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), the son of William Henry Haslehust, and studied at the

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under

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. He was a member of the

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(RI),

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(RBA),

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(RWA) and

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(RBC), and exhibited regularly at many venues including the

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in London. He also designed posters for the

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and

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railway companies, and his art was featured in many magazines of the day including the ''

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'' and ''

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''. He was a prolific painter of British landscapes in watercolour. One book he worked on was ''I Wish I Could Paint'' (The Studio, London, 1945. 96 p., 4º) with the text by

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Books illustrated by Haslehust

Haslehust is perhaps best remembered for illustrating 36 volumes of the well-known "

Beautiful England "Beautiful England" was the title of a series of short, illustrated travel/guide books first published in Britain by Blackie & Son around 1910 and continuing in print until the 1950s. Each title featured a particular region, town or city in England ...

" series of travel books published by

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(see titles below). Those marked '$' in the series "Beautiful Scotland"; the others in "Beautiful England" *Barwell, Noel.
Cambridge
' (Blackie & Son, 1911). *Benson, George.
York
' (Dana Estes & Co Boston). *Bradley, A. G.
The English Lakes
' (Blackie & Son, 1910) *Danks, William.

' (Blackie & Son, 1910) *Edwards, Charles & Bennett, J. H. E. ''Chester'' (Blackie & Son, 1911) *Edwards, Charles. ''Our Beautiful Homeland: Hereford, Chester, Oxford, Warwick & Leamington'' (Gresham, Ca. 1920s) *Eyre-Todd, George.
Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, and the Trossachs
' (Blackie & Son, 1922) $ *Geddie, John. ''Edinburgh'' (Blackie & Son, 1922) $ *Geddie, John. ''The Shores of Fife'' (Blackie & Son, 1922) $ *Geddie, John. ''The Scott Country'' (Blackie & Son, 1922) $ *Gilchrist, Murray.

' (Blackie and Son, 1913). *Gilchrist, Murray.
The Peak District
' London Blackie, 1911. *Godfrey, Elizabeth.
The New Forest
' (Blackie & Son, 1912). *Heath, Sidney.
The Cornish Riviera
' (Blackie and Son, 1911). *Heath, Sidney.
Winchester
' (Blackie & Son, 1911). *Heath, Sidney.
Exeter
' (Blackie & Son, 1912). *Heath, Sidney.
Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch
' (Blackie & Son, 1915). *Heath, Sidney.
The Heart of Wessex
' (Blackie & Son). *Heath, Sidney. ''Swanage and District'' (Blackie & Son, 1915). *Higgins, Walter.
Hastings and Neighbourhood
' (Blackie & Son, 1920) *How, Frederick Douglas.
Oxford
' (Blackie & Son, 1910). * Jerrold, Walter.
Shakespeare Land
' (Dana Estes & Co. Boston). *Jerrold, Walter.
Norwich and the Broads
' (Blackie & Son, 1910). *Jerrold, Walter.
Hampton Court
' (Blackie & Son, 1912) *Jerrold, Walter.
The Thames
' (Blackie & Son, 1910) *Jerrold, Walter.
Folkestone and Dover
' (Blackie & Son, 1920). *Jerrold, Walter.

' (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1924) *Jerrold, Walter.

' (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1924) *Jerrold, Walter.

' (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1925) *Jerrold, Walter.

' (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1925) *Morley, George

(New York: Dodge, ca. 1920). *Nicklin, J. A.
Dickens Land
' (Blackie & Son, 1911) *Salmon, Arthur Leslie.
Bath and Wells
' (New York Dodge Pub. Co., 1914). *Salmon, Arthur Leslie. ''Dartmoor'' (Blackie and Son, 1913). *Thomas, Edward.

' (Dana Estes & Co. 1921). *Thomas, Edward. ''The Isle of Wight'' (Blackie & Son, 1911). *Thomas, Edward.
In Pursuit of Spring
' (Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1914).

Notes

References

External links

E W Haslehust - short biography
("Travelling Art Gallery")
The wooded track and a young girl beside a duck pond
(Watercolour -

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A West Country creek
(Watercolour - Christie's)
London & North Eastern Railway poster
(Travel posters online) * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haslehust, E. W. 1866 births 1949 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art English illustrators English watercolourists Landscape artists Members of the Royal West of England Academy People from Walthamstow 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists

Life and work

Books illustrated by Haslehust

See also

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