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William Lee HankeyRed Sails at Honfleur Harbour Impressionist Painting, Figures, Boats, Red, Blue
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Red Sails at Honfleur by WIlliam Lee Hankey, this striking oil painting features the iconic port town of Honfleur, Normandy. Vibrant red sails command the composition, their warm hues contrasting vividly with pale sea and sky. Fishing boats rest gently on reflective water, their masts and sails mirrored beneath them. The distant harbour and townscape are softly suggested with fluid strokes, offering a balance of detail and atmosphere - typical of Hankey’s impressionistic yet realistic approach.
Red Sails at Honfleur sits within a broader tradition of British artists responding to French coastal life with genteel empathy and atmospheric clarity. Honfleur - a picturesque harbour steeped in art history, was a popular subject for Hankey and other members of the Newlyn School, bridging documentary energy and poetic light. His brushwork here is confident but not ostentatious, characterised by broad, expressive strokes that evoke the sensation of light, wind, and water. His brushwork here is confident but not ostentatious - characterised by broad, expressive strokes that evoke the sensation of light, wind, and water.
- Creator:William Lee Hankey (1869 - 1952, British)
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Shrewsbury, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU81216781422
William Lee Hankey
William Lee Hankey was born in Chester. He was married to Mabel Lee Hankey and then Edith Garner. He studied at Chester School of Art under Walter Schroeder, at the Royal College of Art and in Paris. From the early 1890s, Lee Hankey exhibited at the main London galleries, especially Fine Art Society, RWS, Leicester and Lefevre Galleries, also RA, Goupil and many others. During World War I, he served with the Artist’s Rifles. Lee Hankey is notable for his paintings of French harbor scenes and paintings and etchings of English country life. He won a gold medal at the Barcelona International Exhibition and a bronze medal in Chicago was a vice president of the RWS in the late 1940s and chairman of the Empire Art Council.
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