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Charles Napier Hemy

Charles Napier Hemy (1841 - 1917) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England, France.  Charles Hemy is known for Landscape and marine painting, stained glass design.

Born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, Charles Napier Hemy emigrated with his family to Australia in 1852.  He returned to England three years later, signing aboard a merchant ship before making a decision to join a monastery.  He spent three years first at the Dominican House in Newcastle and then in a monastery in Lyons, France.

During that time he began to paint and decided to pursue art as a career.  He studied at the Newcastle School of Art with history painter William Bell Scott, a friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.  Inspired by John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite painters, Hemy joined William Morris' Queen Square Stained Glass Workshop.  There he rendered the designs of artists like Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Maddox Ford, and Phillip Webb into working drawings for the glass painters and glaziers. Both Morris and Burne-Jones became close friends.

In 1862 Hemy saw the works of Belgian academic painter Baron Hendrik Leys at London's International E   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1844 characters.]  Artist bio

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