Self portrait ( as --diogenes-- ) by Henry Keyworth Raine 2014-06-12 14-50

Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1934) was a British

portraitist A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this re ...

Life

Born in

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, he was the son of the Reverend James Raine and Ann Jane Keyworth; and the great nephew of

William Powell Frith William Powell Frith (9 January 1819 – 2 November 1909) was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting ''The Sleep ...

, In 1895, according to a newspaper report in the ''York Herald'', Raine was commissioned to paint the portrait of

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, (Louisa Caroline Alberta; 18 March 1848 – 3 December 1939) was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In her public life, she was a strong proponent of the arts and highe ...

, the sixth child of

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, at Kensington Palace. Raine, on his own account, began painting portraits by candlelight in 1897. In 1901, a portrait of Francis Foljambe by Raine, and a self-portrait, were hanging at Osberton Hall. Raine was described in newspapers as "The cellar artist". Stories about his method of painting in the dark were printed. The techniques he employed in his underground studio off

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were stated to be an effort to recreate the style and results of artists he admired, such as

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian (Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, nea ...

, Rembrandt and Velazquez. Painting by candlelight, using only three colours on his pallet and using special black canvas, Raine was able to complete a portrait in five hours, meaning the sitter would only need to visit his studio on one occasion. A newspaper report of 1904 stated that he never exhibited, and had painted portraits of Henry Edwyn King-Tenison, 9th Earl of Kingston and Charles Innes-Ker.

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contains examples of his work.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Raine, Henry Keyworth 1872 births 1932 deaths 20th-century British painters British male painters 20th-century British male artists