Nathaniel Hone the Younger
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Nathaniel Hone the Younger (26 October 1831 – 14 October 1917) was an
Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
painter, the great-grand-nephew of the painter Nathaniel Hone.


Life and career

Hone studied at
Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...
. He began his career as a railway engineer but gave this up to study art in Paris. Most of his later paintings are landscapes, very often enlivened with animals and occasionally with figures. He was a member of the Hone family. In France he was influenced by the painter
Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and ...
who was taking a new and quite revolutionary realistic approach. His closest painting tips were, however, from another French impressionist, Camille Corot. Hone became a close friend of one of Corot's followers at the Barbizon School of landscape painting. At Barbizon he learned to appreciate colour, texture and tone in the landscape, and applied it in strong and confident brushworks to the painting of Irish subjects on his return. In Paris, Hone worked closely with artist Édouard Brandon, also a follower of Corot's, and stayed with him at 44, rue du Notre Dame de Lorette. Hone established Malahide Golf Club in 1892 and is now one of Dublin's premier golf courses and restaurants.


Work

Hone's paintings which were completed in France have many similarities to those that he worked on to his country farm in Co. Dublin, but the finish is perhaps more polished and professional in the later Irish works. One of his finest pieces is ''Pastures at Malahide'' (pictured). Cows in the foreground of the painting rest quietly grazing against the low horizon. This allows for a large amount of space to be given to the rich and dominating sky full of white cumulus clouds. The atmosphere is one of peace and tranquility, while being typically Irish with the feeling of impending rain.


See also

* List of Orientalist artists * Orientalism


References


External links


Nathaniel Hone Paintings & BioCensus Return, Irish Census 19111872 Marriage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hone 1831 births 1917 deaths 19th-century Irish painters 20th-century Irish painters Irish male painters Irish people of Dutch descent Burials at St. Andrew's Church, Graveyard, Malahide Orientalist painters 19th-century Irish male artists 20th-century Irish male artists