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An Australian artist in London - The untold story of Hewitt Henry Rayner (1902-1957) and his friendship with Walter Sickert (Paperback)
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An Australian artist in London - The untold story of Hewitt Henry Rayner (1902-1957) and his friendship with Walter Sickert (Paperback)
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As well as telling for the first time the story of Hewitt Henry
Rayner - probably the 20th century's most prolific drypoint etcher
- this biography also provides fresh insights into the personality
of Walter Sickert, observed during a friendship that lasted almost
a decade. Matthew Sturgis, noted Sickert expert, has contributed
the Foreword to this biography. He commented: This book adds many
things to the record of Sickert s life, his working practices, his
teaching methods, his work-spaces, and his character. It will be a
useful and enduring addition to the story of early Twentieth
Century British art. Australian-born Hewitt Henry Rayner came to
England in 1923 at the age of 21 to study art, fell in love with
London (and Chelsea in particular), and stayed for the rest of his
life. He won a place at the Royal Academy Schools in 1925, where
Sickert was a visiting teacher. The two struck up a friendship and
saw each other regularly at Sickert s homes and studios, in cafes
and restaurants, and sometimes sketching together in London
locations. Sickert was a generous friend and mentor to Rayner, who
assiduously noted down the things his master did and said. These
first-hand reminiscences form a significant strand of the book.
Other figures from London s artistic and literary worlds of the
1920s and 1930s who appear in the Rayner story include Augustus
John, Nina Hamnett, Ethel Mannin, Yoshio Markino, Charles Sims,
Dame Ethel Walker and Philip Wilson Steer. Unusually, and against
Sickert s advice, Rayner chose drypoint etching as his principal
medium, and from 1926 on adopted Henry Rayner as his professional
name. Between 1926 and 1945 he produced what is quite probably the
largest body of original drypoint etchings by any 20th century
artist. Over 500 plates are known, most in his distinctive
Impressionistic style. Most of the plates have survived. Although
Rayner has been largely forgotten since his death in 1957, there
are numerous institutions that hold examples of his drypoints.
These include the V&A, the British Museum, the National
Portrait Gallery and the Royal Collection at Windsor, as well as
many regional galleries in Britain and major galleries in Australia
and New Zealand. This biography charts Rayner s struggle to earn a
living as an artist in the face of an economic depression, ill
health, serious war injuries and - as he saw it - cold-shouldering
by the British art establishment. It is rich in detail, thanks in
part to a large archive of the artist s unpublished
autobiographical manuscripts, notebooks, essays and correspondence,
discovered recently. Some 95 examples of Rayner s work are
reproduced in the book, together with 70 photographs, making it an
important reference work on this neglected artist.
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