Richard Norman Shaw, by John Callcott Horsley, 1817-1903

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Richard Norman Shaw, RA

John Callcott Horsley, 1817-1903

1886

Oil on canvas

34.5 x 29.7 cm.; frame: 113.5 x 67.3 cm.

Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Accession No. ABDAG002802

Alexander Macdonald Bequest, 1901

According to Helen Valentine, in 1861 Horsley bought a house in the artists' colony of Cranbrook in Kent, which Norman Shaw remodelled for him between 1864 and 1870. [Commentary continues below. Mouse over the text for links.]

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Image acquisition and text by Jacqueline Banerjee

In his memoirs, Horsley wrote of his new home, Willesley, in Cranbrook, "Then came the question of enlargement, and of beautifying the house, and this led to my putting the matter in the hands of Mr. Norman Shaw, then a rising young architect." He continues, "Norman Shaw's fame is now world-wide, and so also is the knowledge of the debt that English domestic architecture owes to his genius and originality, so I need not dwell on the undoubted fact of how much our house owes to his inspiration" (340).

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Bibliography

Horsley, John Callcott. Recollections of a Royal Academician. London: John Murray, 1903. Internet Archive. Contributed by the University of California Libraries. Web. 19 April 2018.

Valentine, Helen. "Horsley, John Callcott (1817–1903), painter." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Web. 19 April 2018.

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