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JAMES CLARKE HOOK (1819-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 670 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:CLARKE See also:HOOK (1819-1907)  , See also:English painter, was See also:born in See also:London on the 21st of See also:November 1819 . His See also:father, See also:James See also:Hook, a Northumbrian by descent, See also:Judge Arbitrator of Sierra Leone, married the second daughter of Dr See also:Adam See also:Clarke, the commentator on the See also:Bible, who gave to the painter his second name . See also:Young Hook's first See also:taste of the See also:sea was on See also:board the See also:Berwick smacks which took him on his way to Wooler . He See also:drew with rare facility, and determined to become an artist; and accordingly, without any supervision, he set to See also:work for more than a See also:year in the See also:sculpture galleries of the See also:British Museum . In 1836 he was admitted a student of the Royal See also:Academy, where he worked for three years, and elsewhere learned a See also:good See also:deal of the scientific technique of See also:painting from a See also:nephew of See also:Opie . His first picture, called " The,Hard Task," was exhibited in 1837, and represented a girl helping her See also:sister with a See also:lesson . Unusual facility in See also:portraiture and a See also:desire to See also:earn his own living took the student into See also:Ireland to paint likenesses of the See also:Waterford See also:family and others; here he produced landscapes of the Vale of See also:Avoca, and much See also:developed his taste for See also:pastoral See also:art; later, he was similarly engaged in See also:Kent and See also:Somersetshire . In 1842 his second exhibited work was a portrait of " See also:Master J . See also:Finch See also:Smith ": in this year he gained See also:silver medals at the Royal Academy, and in 1843 he was one of the competitors in the See also:exhibition of cartoons in See also:Westminster See also:Hall, with a 10 by 7 ft. See also:design of " Satan in See also:Paradise." In 1844 the Academy contained a picture of a See also:kind with which his name was See also:long associated, an See also:illustration of the Decameron, called " Pamphilius See also:relating his See also:Story," a meadow See also:scene in See also:bright See also:light, with sumptuous ladies, richly clad, reclining on the grass . The British Institution, 1844 and 1845, set forth two of Hook's idylls, subjects taken from See also:Shakespeare and See also:Burns, which, with the above, showed him to be cultivating those See also:veins of romantic sentiment and the picturesque which were then in See also:vogue, but in a characteristically fresh and vigorous manner . " The See also:Song of Olden Times " (Royal Academy, 1845) marked the artist's future path distinctly in most technical respects . It was in this year Hook won the Academy See also:gold See also:medal for an oil picture of " The Finding the See also:Body of Harold." The travelling studentship in painting was awarded to him for " Rizpah watching the Dead Sons of See also:Saul " in 1846; and he went for three years to See also:Italy, having married See also:Miss Rosalie See also:Burton before he See also:left See also:England .

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Paris, worked diligently for some See also:time in the Louvre, traversed See also:Switzerland, and, though he stayed only See also:part of three years in Italy, gained much from studies of See also:Titian, Tintoret, See also:Carpaccio, Mansueti and other Venetians . Their See also:influence thenceforth dominated the coloration of his pictures, and enabled him to apply the principles to which they had attained to the See also:representation (as Bonington before him had done) of romantic subjects and to those English themes of the See also:land and sea with which the name of the artist is inseparably associated . " A See also:Dream of See also:Ancient See also:Venice " (R.A., 1848)—the first See also:fruit of these See also:Italian studies—" See also:Bayard of See also:Brescia " (R.A., 1849), " Venice " (B.I., 1849) and other See also:works assured for Hook the Associateship of the Royal Academy in 1851 . Soon afterwards an incomparable See also:series of English subjects was begun, in many pastorals and See also:fine brilliant idylls of the sea and rocks . " A See also:Rest by the Wayside " and " A Few Minutes to Wait before Twelve o'See also:clock " proved his See also:title to appear, in 1854, as a new and See also:original painter . After these See also:cane " A See also:Signal on the See also:Horizon " (1857), " A Widow's Son going to Sea," " The See also:Ship-boy's See also:Letter," "See also:Children's Children are the See also:Crown of Old Men," " A See also:Coast-boy gathering Eggs," a scene at See also:Lundy; the perfect " Luff, Boy.!" (1859), about which See also:Ruskin See also:broke into a dithyrambic See also:chant, " The See also:Brook," " Stand Clear ! " " 0 Well for the Fisherman's Boy ! " (186o), " Leaving See also:Cornwall for the See also:Whitby Fishing," " Sea Urchins," and a See also:score more as fine as these . The artist was elected a full Academician on the 6th of See also:March s86o, in the See also:place of James See also:Ward . He died on the 14th of See also:April 1907 . See A . H .

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Palmer, " J . C . Hook, R.A.," See also:Portfolio (1888); F . G . See also:Stephens, " J . C . Hook, Royal Academician: His See also:Life and Work," Art See also:Annual (London, 1888); P . G . See also:Hamerton, See also:Etching and Etchers (London, 1877) .

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