Sir George Clausen: The Stone Pickers, 1887

George Clausen was a British artist working in oil and watercolour, etching, mezzotint, and occasionally lithographs. He became one of the foremost modern painters of landscape and of peasant life, influenced to a certain extent by the Impressionists, with whom he shared the view that light is the real subject of landscape art. His pictures excel in rendering the appearance of things under flecking outdoor sunlight, or in the shady shelter of a barn or stable.

Clausen was a founding member of the New English Art Club in 1886, and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, and a full Academician in 1906. As Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy he gave a memorable series of lectures to the students of the Schools, published as Six Lectures on Painting. Clausen was knighted in 1927.

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HC-1487: card size 7" x 5" (178mm x 127mm)