Edward Atkinson Hornel (17 July 1864 – 1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children. He was a cousin of

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. His contemporaries in the

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called him Ned Hornel.

Biography

Hornel was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, of Scottish parents, and he was brought up and lived practically all his life in Scotland after his family moved back to

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in 1866. He studied for three years at the art school at

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, and for two years in

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under

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. Returning from Antwerp in 1885, he met George Henry and associated himself with the

. Hornel and Henry collaborated upon ''The Druids Bringing in the Mistletoe'' (1890), a procession of

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ic priests bringing in the sacred

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, gorgeous with

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and gold. The two worked side by side to achieve decorative splendor of color, Hornel boldly and freely employing texture effects produced by loading and scraping, roughening, smoothing, and staining. In 1893–94 (funded by William Burrell via their friend and art dealer Alexander Reid) the two artists spent a year and a half in Japan, where Hornel learned much about decorative design and spacing. In this period they met the resident British artist, Percy Sturdee. A_Spring_Roundelay_by_Edward_Atkinson_Hornel

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In April 1895 Alexander Reid organised an exhibition of Henry and Hornel's Japanese work which sold very well, especially to Sir

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. In 1895 he contributed the illustration ''Madame Chrysanthème'' to the Autumn volume of ''The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal'' published by Patrick Geddes and Colleagues in Edinburgh. Towards the close of the 1890s Hornel's colors, while preserving their glow and richness, became more refined and more atmospheric, and his drawing more naturalistic, combining sensuous appeal with emotional and poetic significance. In 1901 he declined election to the

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. A member of

Glasgow Art Club Glasgow Art Club is a club for artists and lay members with an interest in the arts, that has become over the generations "a meeting place for artists, business leaders and academics".Broughton House Broughton House is an 18th-century town house standing on the High Street of Kirkcudbright, Scotland. It was the home of Scots impressionist artist E. A. Hornel between 1901 and his death in 1933. During this time Hornel remodelled the house ...

, a townhouse and garden in Kirkcudbright, which was his main residence for the rest of his life with his sister Elizabeth. There he made several modifications to the house and designed garden taking inspiration from his travels in Japan. he also made an addition of a gallery for his paintings. On his death the house and library were donated for the benefit of the citizens and Broughton House is now administered by the

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. There are examples of his works in the museums of

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, Buffalo,

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, Hull,

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, and

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. Edward Atkinson Hornel - Druids Bringing In The Mistletoe.jpg, ''The Druids Bringing in the Mistletoe'' Earthsawakening-hornel.jpg, ''The Earth's Awakening'' Edward Atkinson Hornel Wonderment.jpg, ''Wonderment'' Seashore Roses Edward Atkinson Hornel.jpg, ''Seashore Roses'' (detail)

References

External links

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Twenty-five images of his works, and details of books about the artist
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080111121505/http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/14/ Broughton House, the National Trust for Scotlandbr>Hornel at Exploreart
Tribute to James Hornel

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