William Lee Hankey RWS ROI RI RE
1869 - 1952
Lee-Hankey was born in Chester and worked as a designer after leaving school. He studied art in the evenings at the Chester School of Art, then at the Royal College of Art. He moved to Paris, where he became influenced by the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage, and his rustic scenes depicted in a realistic but sentimental style. Lee-Hankey first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896, becoming associated with the Newlyn Group, but spent the early 1900s in Brittany and Normandy, where he depicted in watercolours and etchings a peasant lifestyle which was disappearing in England, and from 1904 until after World War I he maintained a studio at the Étaples art colony, and it was his etchings made there, including that established his reputation. Having depicted the plight of refugees from the German invasion of France and Belgium, he served in the Artists Rifles from 1915-18.
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