John Hanson Walker Signed (1 results)

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. Four Original Handwritten and Signed Letters/Envelopes by Artist John Hanson Walker to fellow Artist Arthur Bentley Connor. Dated between 1914 and 1927. The letters discuss family matters, artwork, their work and other general topics. John Hanson Walker was an English Painter 1844-1933. He was born in 1844 in Bath, the son of a dealer in curiosities. He sat as a model for Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-1896), who encouraged him to become an artist. He attended the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited there from 1872 to 1918. He worked with Leighton in the early 1860s. Walker became a fashionable society portrait painter. Many of his portraits are held by the National Trust, Derby Museum and Art Gallery and Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. His son, John Hanson Walker, (1874-1946) was a painter of animal subjects. Artist Arthur Bentley Connor 1880-1960 was born in Battersea the son of a Surgeon. Arthur studied at the Royal Academy Schools during in the late 1890's and early 1900's and subsequently worked as a portrait painter. Condition is good with light gum marks to rear of some and light folding creases. Ref 18815. Signed by Author(s).