Lowes Dalbiac Luard (27 August 1872 – 1944) was a British painter.

Early life

A Mountain Battery - in the mule-lines Art

Luard was born in

Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

, the son of Col. Charles Henry Luard of the Royal Engineers and grandson of Lt.-Col. John Luard. Educated in England, and having won a place at the University of Oxford to study mathematics at Balliol, he decided instead to study art, and in 1892 enrolled at the

Slade School of Fine Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...

in London, where his contemporaries included

Augustus John Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sarge ...

and

Ambrose McEvoy Arthur Ambrose McEvoy (12 August 1877 – 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly o ...

. He left the Slade in 1897 and then studied in Paris under

Lucien Simon Lucien Joseph Simon (1861 – 1945) was a French painter and teacher born in Paris. Early life and education Simon was born in Paris. After graduating from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he studied painting at the studio of Jules Didier, then from ...

and Rene Menard. He moved to Paris in 1905 with his wife Louey and their baby daughter Veronica and, except for the war years, lived in the city for almost thirty years. In Paris he became well known for his paintings and drawings of large working horses. Two of his most notable paintings, ''Timberhauling on the Seine'' (1914) and ''Percherons at Water'' (1911), are from this period.

World War I

Lowes Luard enlisted in the British Army Service Corps in 1914, and served throughout the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, being awarded both the DSO, the Croix de Guerre and was mentioned in despatches five times. Even whilst serving in the army Luard continued to draw, usually charcoal studies of horses pulling heavy guns or other loads through mud. In 1922, the Société des Artistes Rouennais, in Rouen, exhibited eight paintings and pastels by Luard.

Later life

After the war Luard's interests broadened to include landscapes and seascapes. He moved to London in 1934 and became a regular visitor to the racecourse and stables at Newmarket, where he would often paint scenes of thoroughbred racehorses training on the gallops. In 1936 Faber and Faber published his book ''The Horse: Its Action and Anatomy'', the first study of the skeleton, muscles and physiognomy of the horse since

George Stubbs George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds, Reynold ...

' treatise, ''The Anatomy of the Horse''. During World War II, Lowes Luard was contracted to provide a number of works for the

War Artists' Advisory Committee The War Artists Advisory Committee (WAAC), was a British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and headed by Sir Kenneth Clark. Its aim was to compile a comprehensive artist ...

. He died in London in 1944.

References

External links

* * (including 3 "from old catalog") {{DEFAULTSORT:Luard, Lowes Dalbiac 1872 births 1944 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art British Army personnel of World War I British draughtsmen British war artists Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) Royal Army Service Corps officers 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists British people in colonial India

Early life

World War I

Later life

Further reading

References

External links