Henry Courtney Selous, was an English painter, illustrator and lithographer. He was the son of Gideon "George" Slous (1777–1839), a Flemish portrait and miniature painter, and a pupil of John Martin who was an important and influential English painter of the 19th century. He was an occupant of Keats House in Hampstead, from 1835 to 1838.
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- Henry Courtney Selous war ein englischer Maler und Kupferstecher. Er war der Sohn des in seiner Zeit bekannten Miniaturenmalers George Slous und Schüler von John Martin. 1818 trat er in die Royal Academy Schools ein und malte zunächst einige Jahre hauptsächlich Tierbilder, bevor er sich der Portraitmalerei zuwandte. Diese signierte er noch als Slous, die ab 1839 entstandenen historisierenden Gemälde und Illustrationen zeitgenössischer Bücher und Zeitschriften werden dann mit Selous gezeichnet. 1843 gewann er einen Wettbewerb der Historienmaler und blieb für den Rest seines Lebens bei diesem Sujet. Er war kommerziell recht erfolgreich und erhielt zahlreiche Aufträge, unter anderem für die Eröffnung der Ersten Weltausstellung im Crystal Palace im Hyde Park 1851 (The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria on 1st May 1851, heute im Bestand des Victoria and Albert Museum in London) sowie für verschiedene historisierende Gemälde von Militäreinheiten im Kampf.
- Henry Courtney Selous, was an English painter, illustrator and lithographer. He was the son of Gideon "George" Slous (1777–1839), a Flemish portrait and miniature painter, and a pupil of John Martin who was an important and influential English painter of the 19th century. He was an occupant of Keats House in Hampstead, from 1835 to 1838. Selous had two brothers, Frederick Lokes Slous (the father of Frederick Courteney Selous) and Angiolo Robson Slous, a playwright who wrote True to the Core: A Story of the Armada and whose daughter Alice married the novelist Morley Roberts. In 1818 Selous entered the Royal Academy Schools and also exhibited his first work, a Portrait of a Favourite Cat, location untraced, at the Academy. He submitted animal portraits for the next three years before embarking on human portraiture. His early works were exhibited under the name "Slous", but at sometime between 1831 and 1838 he adopted the name "Selous". In the 1840s he began to paint historical subjects, initially inspired by the renewed interest in history painting prompted by the New Palace of Westminster cartoon competition for the designs of frescoes on the new building in 1843. In this he submitted a picture of Boadicea Harranguing the Iceni which won a premium of £200 in 1843. He was aided by the knowledge of mural technique he had acquired by working for a panorama painter. Despite the prize, the picture was criticised by one reviewer because the "violence of the action and dashing lights carry us away like the speech of a mob orator. " He painted historical pieces for the rest of his career, for example Cassio Wounded, 1874, location untraced, as well as such works as The Opening of The Great Exhibition (see works, below) recording contemporary events.
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- Henry Courtney Selous war ein englischer Maler und Kupferstecher. Er war der Sohn des in seiner Zeit bekannten Miniaturenmalers George Slous und Schüler von John Martin. 1818 trat er in die Royal Academy Schools ein und malte zunächst einige Jahre hauptsächlich Tierbilder, bevor er sich der Portraitmalerei zuwandte. Diese signierte er noch als Slous, die ab 1839 entstandenen historisierenden Gemälde und Illustrationen zeitgenössischer Bücher und Zeitschriften werden dann mit Selous gezeichnet.
- Henry Courtney Selous, was an English painter, illustrator and lithographer. He was the son of Gideon "George" Slous (1777–1839), a Flemish portrait and miniature painter, and a pupil of John Martin who was an important and influential English painter of the 19th century. He was an occupant of Keats House in Hampstead, from 1835 to 1838.
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