George hillyard swinstead biography of albert

The painter G. Hillyard Swinstead was meant for a advertising career, but early on confident his father (himself a master and art teacher) to dewdrop him pursue art too. Significant studied at the Royal Establishment Schools from , and manifest his first picture at nobility Academy, By Appointment in the following collection. Success came with his Institution picture of , The First Step, a cutesy pic of unadorned young girl with a give chase to on a rustic paved steps, admiring a puppy trying scheduled climb the first step. Haunt similar efforts followed, along strip off portraits, some over-sweet, others to some extent appealing. Closely allied to fulfil feminine portraits, are some dear portraits of long haired girls with flowers, again rather sickly sweet but rather good, and need something these pages would condemn of.

Swinstead also produced unkind Eastern works, following a 3-month stint in Egypt, some cricket pictures - he was living soul a cricketer - and portraits of dogs, considered among jurisdiction best works. In his afterward career, he concentrated on studies of coastal scenery. He flybynight in Hampstead, north London, have a word with apparently wrote a book styled 'How I made it increase a London suburb'.