- Artist
- Charles Napier Hemy 1841–1917
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 571 × 914 mm
frame: 842 × 1199 × 90 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Godwin King 1938
- Reference
- N04921
Display caption
Hemy studied art in Newcastle but tried first to be a sailor and then a monk before committing himself to painting. His early works, including this one, show a Pre-Raphaelite concern with natural detail fused with a sense of melancholy. Hemy took the picture with him when he went to Antwerp in 1867 to study under the Belgian academic artist Baron Leys, who also taught Alma-Tadema and Tissot. 'Evening Grey' was painted at Clovelly in north Devon. In later life Hemy became a succesful marine artist, working from a large house in Falmouth.
Gallery label, September 2004
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