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Sir George Clausen Charcoal Study of Blacksmith

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Sir George Clausen Charcoal Study of Blacksmith
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18 1/2" by 22 1/2" framed. Title is Blacksmith at his Anvil. George (Sir George) Clausen (1852 - 1944) was active/lived in Illinois / United Kingdom, England. George Clausen is known for Figure, landscape, and peasant genre paintings, etching, drypoint. A painter who earned much distinction for his landscape and modern-day peasant genre scenes, George Clausen also painted portraits and still life. Like the impressionists, Clausen subscribed to the idea that light was the most important subject of a painting, but his work, often with sparkling sunlight, was realist in style. He was born in London, and spent most of his career in that city. He was elected a full member to the Royal Academy in 1906, and was knighted as Sir George Clausen in 1927. His father, a decorative artist, was from Denmark, and his mother was Scottish. At age 14, he apprenticed to a London firm of decorators, Messrs Trollope, and while working there, attended the South Kensington Design School. Shortly after he earned a two-year scholarship to that school. He also worked in the studio of Edwin Long, a Royal Academy member, whom he met when he was sent to Long's home to decorate a door. In Europe, George Clausen, studied at the Antwerp Academy and with Professor Joseph Van Lerius (1823-1876), and during this time, he did painting along the Dutch coast. In Paris, he studied with Gustave Bouguereau and Robert Fleury. Clausen was also a Professor of Painting and a war artist during World War I. In 1929, his work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago.