Sir Thomas Kennington Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"A Mother's Love"
Title: A Mother's Love
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 22 x 28 in | Image Size: 18 x 24 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Born in the coastal town of Great Grimsby on 7th April 1856, Kennington was a superb exponent of oils and water colours, infusing his portraits and genre scenes with a rare liveliness and sense of colour. He shows a true understanding of human nature, as well as a deep artistic skill in his brilliant portrait work.
Kennington studied at the Liverpool School of Art, the Royal College of Art and at the Academie Julien in Paris. He then made a permanent move to London, where he enjoyed a successful career and taught his son, who was a talented painter and sculptor.
Thomas Kennington's works were very well received and he was invited to exhibit at the Royal Academy from 1880. He was an original member of the New English Watercolour Society, and its first Secretary. This was a society founded in 1886 by a group of young artists as an English version of the Salon des Refuses in Paris. The pictures were selected by the artists themselves, not by a committee, and the Society became a centre for French influence and impressionism.
Thomas Kennington painted with an expressive and poignant manner that earned him a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889. He was also a regular exhibitor at Suffolk Street from 1880 onwards.
Kennington died on 10th December 1916.
