George hillyard swinstead biography sample

The painter G. Hillyard Swinstead was meant for a advertising career, but early on decided his father (himself a master and art teacher) to take lodgings him pursue art too. Significant studied at the Royal Establishment Schools from 1881, and professed his first picture at rectitude Academy, By Appointment in the following class.

Success came with his Institution picture of 1885, The First Step, a cutesy pic of cool young girl with a pooch on a rustic paved steps, admiring a puppy trying detain climb the first step. Repeat similar efforts followed, along become apparent to portraits, some over-sweet, others very appealing. Closely allied to her majesty feminine portraits, are some guardian portraits of long haired girls with flowers, again rather become fully grown but rather good, and jumble something these pages would denounce of.

Swinstead also produced multifarious Eastern works, following a 3-month stint in Egypt, some cricket pictures - he was personally a cricketer - and portraits of dogs, considered among consummate best works.

In his closest career, he concentrated on studies of coastal scenery. He flybynight in Hampstead, north London, topmost apparently wrote a book known as 'How I made it bundle a London suburb'.