Sir George Clausen

1852–1944

Sir George Clausen, ‘The Girl at the Gate’ 1889
The Girl at the Gate 1889
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Biography

Sir George Clausen (18 April 1852 – 22 November 1944), was an English artist working in oil and watercolour, etching, mezzotint, dry point and occasionally lithographs. He was knighted in 1927.

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Artworks

Sir George Clausen, ‘The Girl at the Gate’ 1889

Sir George Clausen The Girl at the Gate

1889
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Sir George Clausen, ‘The Road, Winter Morning’ exhibited 1923

Sir George Clausen The Road, Winter Morning

exhibited 1923
On display at Tate Britain part of Aftermath N03824
Sir George Clausen, ‘Brown Eyes’ 1891

Sir George Clausen Brown Eyes

1891
N04484
Sir George Clausen, ‘Winter Work’ 1883–4

Sir George Clausen Winter Work

1883–4
T03666
Sir George Clausen, ‘A Frosty March Morning’ 1904

Sir George Clausen A Frosty March Morning

1904
N04485
Sir George Clausen, ‘My Back Garden’ exhibited 1940

Sir George Clausen My Back Garden

exhibited 1940
N05335
Sir George Clausen, ‘Gleaners Coming Home’ 1904

Sir George Clausen Gleaners Coming Home

1904
On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art N04486
Sir George Clausen, ‘The Gleaners Returning’ 1908

Sir George Clausen The Gleaners Returning

1908
N02259
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Features

John Constable, ‘Flatford Mill (‘Scene on a Navigable River’)’ 1816–7
Art Term

Naturalism

Naturalism was a broad movement in the nineteenth century which represented things closer to the way we see them

Sir George Clausen, ‘Brown Eyes’ 1891
Art Term

Rural naturalism

Nineteenth century painting movement characterized by scenes of rural life painted in a realist, often sentimentalised, manner

John Singer Sargent, ‘Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs Wertheimer’ 1901
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Camila Batmanghelidjh , Josh Lacey , Hattie Ellis and Thomas Scheibitz

MicroTate: Camila Batmanghelidjh, Josh Lacey, Hattie Ellis and Thomas Scheibitz on works in Tate collection, Tate Etc. issue 12

Sketches, letters, etc.

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Sir George Clausen, recipient: Thomas Cooper Gotch Postcard to Thomas Cooper Gotch probably from George Clausen

6 November 1914
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Related art terms

British impressionism British War Art New English Art Club Newlyn school Pre-Raphaelite Rural naturalism

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