Sir Francis Seymour Haden, R.A. Art

Egham Lock etching & drypoint, 1859 Signed in the plate faintly lower left (see photo) Titled in the plate lower left Published: in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1864 Rich impression print...

Medium: original etching with drypoint. Catalogue reference: Schneiderman 98. Executed in 1865; this is a rich, dark impression on laid paper with full original margins from the 1872...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1868 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce first volume of "Etching and Etchers". Image size: 4 x 6 1/4 inc...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Arches laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 5 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches (140 x...

Medium: etching and drypoint. This is Seymour Haden's etched version of the painting by Thomas Wright of Derby entitled "Edwin the Minstrel". The man in the portrait was actually Sir...

Medium: original etching. Signed both in the plate and in pencil. Catalogue reference Schneiderman 202. Executed in 1881, and printed on laid paper with full margins. Plate size: 7 x...

SIR FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN (British 1818 -1910) SUNSET IN IRELAND 1863 (Schneiderman 47 - Appears to be an undescribed state between XI and XII) Etching and drypoint, signed in penci...

SIR FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN (1818-1910) A LANCASHIRE RIVER, 1881 (Schneiderman 203 viii/ix; Harrington 215 ii/ii) Original etching with drypoint. Signed in pencil., image 11 x 16. A large sheet, 18 x 22 inches with 3 inch margins. In very good condition. According to British dealer...

Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Schneiderman 21. Executed in 1859; this very nice impression on thin laid paper is from the Gazette des Beaux Arts edition of 1864. Pla...

Drypoint etching on watermarked cream wove paper, 5 7/16 x 8 7/16 inches (39 x 215 mm), wide (perhaps full) margins. A very desirable, bright and richly inked impression, with the da...

A luminous first state impression, Hamerton's "Portfolio" edition. Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 7 3/16 x 9 15/16 inches (135 x 213 mm), wide margins. First state (of 5)...

Schneiderman 203.viii. 10 7/8 x 15 7/8 (sheet 13 7/8 x 17 7/8). Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 1 (1911): 27. A 1-inch printing fold in the left-hand side of the image, and ...

Vue de La Tamise is a black and White etching realized by Francis Seymour Haden in the Late 19th Century.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 12x28 Very good impression. Realized by...

Beautiful proof on verge, with note “Pl.194” and signed by the artist in pencil. Full margins. Ex-coll. H.H. Benedict (Lugt 1298), with dry stamp not identified. Ref. Cat. Harrington...

Beautiful proof printed in brown on verge paper, signed by the artist in pencil. Some minor folds on top and bottom of sheet; fold of edition on center of sheet. Full margins. Ex-col...

Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), Kensington Gardens (The Small Plate), drypoint, 1859, signed in pencil lower right. References: Harrington 12...

Beautiful proof on vergé crème, signed by the artist in pencil. Full margins. Ex-coll. H.H. Benedict (Lugt 1298). Ref. Cat. Harrington 221; Schneiderman 208.

Beautiful proof on vélin fort, with stamp “Lugt 1048”. Full margins. Ref. Cat. Harrington 170; Schneiderman 163.

Shere Mill Pond, No. II (large plate). 1860. Etching and drypoint. Schneiderman 37.v/ix. 7 x 13 1/8 (sheet 10 3/4 x 16 3/8). This state is prior to publication in Études à l'Eau-Forte. Illustrated: Keppel The Golden Age of Engraving; Print Collector's Quarterly 1 (1911): 18; : Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940. A rich, brilliant proof with drypoint burr printed on white laid paper. Signed in pencil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shere Mill Pond, No. II was one of the most highly praised landscape prints of the etching revival. An impression was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861 under Haden’s pseudonym, H. Dean. Francis Seymour Haden used this anagram of his own name early in his career as an artist, in order to retain his anonymity and preserve his professional reputation as a surgeon. Biography: Sir Francis Seymour Haden (16 September 1818 - 1 June 1910), was an English surgeon, best known as an etcher. He was born in London, his father, Charles Thomas Haden, being a well-known doctor and lover of music. He was educated at Derby School, Christ's Hospital, and University College, London, and also studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, where he took his degree in 1840. He was admitted as a member of the College of Surgeons in London in 1842. In 1843-1844, with his friends Duval, Le Cannes and Colonel Guibout, he travelled in Italy and made his first sketches from nature. Haden attended no art school and had no art teachers, but between 1845 and 1848 he studied portfolios of prints belonging to a second-hand dealer named Love, who had a shop in Bunhill Row, the old Quaker quarter of London. Arranging the prints in chronological order, he studied the works of the great original engravers, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden and Rembrandt. These studies, besides influencing his original work, led to his important monograph on the etched work of Rembrandt. By lecture and book, and with the aid of the memorable exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1877, he tried to give a true reflection of Rembrandt's work, giving a nobler idea of the master's mind by taking away from the list of his works many dull and unseemly plates that had long been included in the lists. His reasons were founded upon the results of a study of the master's works in chronological order, and are clearly expressed in his monograph, The Etched Work of Rembrandt critically reconsidered, privately printed in 1877, and in The Etched Work of Rembrandt True and False (1895). Haden's printmaking was invigorated by his much younger brother-in-law, James Whistler, at the Haden home in Sloane Street in 1855. A press was installed there and for a while Haden and Whistler collaborated on a series of etchings of the Thames. The relationship and project did not last. Haden followed the art of original etching with such vigour that he became not only the foremost British exponent of that art but brought about its revival in England. His strenuous efforts and perseverance, aided by the secretarial ability of Sir WR Drake, resulted in the foundation of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. As president he ruled the society with a strong hand from its first beginnings in 1880. Notwithstanding his study of the old masters of his art, Haden's own plates were very individual, and are particularly noticeable for a fine original treatment of landscape subjects, free and open in line, clear and well divided in mass, and full of a noble and dignified style of his own. Even when working from a picture his personality dominates the plate, as for example in the large plate he etched after J.M.W. Turner's "Calais Pier," which is a classical example of what interpretative work can do in black and white. Of his original plates, more than 250 in number, one of the most notable was the large "Breaking up of the Agamemnon." An early plate, rare and most beautiful, is "Thames Fisherman". "Mytton Hall" is broad in treatment, and a fine rendering of a shady avenue of yew trees leading to an old manor-house in sunlight. "Sub Tegmine" was etched in Greenwich Park in 1859; and "Early Morning--Richmond", full of the poetry and freshness of the hour, was done, according to Haden, actually at sunrise. One of the rarest and most beautiful of his plates is "A By-Road in Tipperary"; "Combe Bottom" is another; and "Shere Mill Pond" (both the small study and the larger plate), "Sunset in Ireland," "Penton Hook," "Grim Spain" and "Evening Fishing, Longparish," are also notable examples of his genius. A catalogue of his works was begun by Sir William Drake and completed by Harrington in 1880. During later years Haden began to practise the sister art...