Antique Temples on Sicily
George Edwards Hering (London 1805 - London 1879)
Lot-No. 373
Oil/canvas, 70,5 x 102,5 cm, lo. le. sign. G. E. Hering, slight craquelure, min. rest., relined.- English landscape painter with German ancestors. H. tudied in Munich since 1832 a. began exhibiting at the local Kunstverein as early as 1830. He travelled extensively through Italy a. the the Balkans. After returning to London in 1936 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy a. at the British Institution, one of his paintings was bought by the prince consort. - Mus.: London (Victoria a. Albert Mus.), Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Mus.), Sheffield, Melbourne. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
George Edwards Hering: Antique Temples on Sicily
George Edwards Hering (London 1805 - London 1879)
Antique Temples on Sicily
Lot-No. 373
Oil/canvas, 70,5 x 102,5 cm, lo. le. sign. G. E. Hering, slight craquelure, min. rest., relined.- English landscape painter with German ancestors. H. tudied in Munich since 1832 a. began exhibiting at the local Kunstverein as early as 1830. He travelled extensively through Italy a. the the Balkans. After returning to London in 1936 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy a. at the British Institution, one of his paintings was bought by the prince consort. - Mus.: London (Victoria a. Albert Mus.), Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Mus.), Sheffield, Melbourne. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.