Nathaniel The Younger Hone (1831 - 1917) Ireland

Nathaniel The Younger Hone (1831 - 1917) Ireland
Watercolor on Paper
Measure 5 3/4"in H x 7 3/4"in W and 8 1/2"in H x 10 1/2"in W with frame

Known for: Barbizon style landscape painting, teaching
Biography: Nathaniel Hone was the first native artist to introduce the influence of 19th century French Naturalism to Irish painting. Nathaniel Hone (also known as Nathaniel The Younger Hone) was born in Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin in 1831, the son of Brindley Hone, a merchant and director of the Midland Great Western Railway. He was the great-grandnephew of the 18th century painter of the same name. Though a member of this very artistic family, his initial training was as an engineer at Trinity College Dublin followed by a brief period of work for the Irish Railway before going to Paris in 1853, at the age of twenty-one to study painting. When Hone returned to Ireland in 1872 it was almost twenty years since he had first gone to Paris to study at the studio of Yvon. On his return he married and settled at Seafield, Malahide, the family estate. While there he continued to paint and to farm. Many of his paintings from this period carry the influences of his Barbizon period and it can be difficult to distinguish untitled landscapes or coastal views as to whether they are French or Irish. The paintings which he completed in Ireland after his return from France maintain the mood and muted tonality characteristic of the Barbizon School. He chose similar subjects to those he had portrayed in France: woodlands, pastures and coastline; the major part of his output was of scenes around Dublin Bay although he also painted in Wicklow, Donegal, Mayo and Clare. Two of Honeâ€â„¢s favourite themes in his Irish paintings were the pastoral idyll, and the open sea with billowing cumulus clouds, both using rapid, flecked brushstrokes suggesting an awareness of Impressionism. We are indebted to Dr. Julian Campbell whose writings on this artist have informed this note. Nathaniel Hone passed away in 1917.
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