Cecil gordon lawson biography

Cecil Gordon Lawson (3 December 1849 – 10 June 1882 London) was a British landscapist and illustrator.
Cecil Gordon Lawson.
Cecil Gordon Lawson was a painter.

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Cecil Gordon Lawson

English painter

For the Jamaican cricketer, see Cecil Lawson.

Cecil Gordon Lawson
Portrait of Lawson by Hubert von Herkomer, 1883
Born	(1849-12-03)3 December 1849 Fountain Place, Wellington, Shropshire
Died	10 June 1882(1882-06-10) (aged 32) London
Nationality	British
Known for	landscape painting
Spouse	Constance Birnie Philip (m. 1879)
Children	Cecil Constant Philip Lawson (1880–1967)

Cecil Gordon Lawson (3 December 1849 – 10 June 1882 London)^[1] was a British landscapist and illustrator.

Life

The youngest son of William Lawson of Edinburgh, a well-regarded portrait painter, and of a mother also known for her flower pieces, he was born in Fountain Place in Wellington, Shropshire. Two of his brothers (one of them, Malcolm, a clever musician and songwriter) were trained as artists, and Cecil was from childhood devoted to art with the intensity of a serious nature. Soon after his birth, the Lawsons moved to London.

In 1871, Lawso

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awson rose to fame as a poetic landscape painter in the five years before his tragically early death at the age of thirty one. His main sources of inspiration were the Thames around Chelsea (he painted some twelve pictures of scenes in Cheyne Walk) and the richness of the English countryside.... [He] exhibited regularly at the Grosvenor Gallery from its second exhibition in 1878, creating a sensation in that year with the Minister's Garden (Manchester City Art Gallery), a homage to Goldsmith.... [I]n Haslemere, Surrey, ...Lawson painted the August Moon (Tate Gallery), exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1880 and presented to the nation by the artist's widow. — Hilary Morgan

Biographical Material

Works

Bibliography

Esposito, Donato. Frederick Walker and the Idyllists. London: Lund Humphries, 2017. See Chapter 5, 112-135.

Gosse, Edmund. Cecil Lawson: A Memoir. London: The Fine Art Society, 1883.

Morgan, Hilary, and Peter Nahum. Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Their Century. London: Peter Nahum, 1989. Catologue number 138.

Owen, Heseltine. "In Memoriam: Cecil Gord

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Nationality: English
Date of Birth: 3 December 1851
Place of Birth: Wellington, Shropshire
Place of Death: West Brompton, London

Identity:

Cecil Gordon Lawson was a painter. In the summer of 1879 he married the painter Constance Philip, who was the younger sister of Whistler's wife Beatrix.

Life:

At first, Lawson painted detailed oil studies of fruit and flowers, but he later became a landscape painter. He was also known as a watercolourist. In 1882 his address was next door to that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at 15 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. He was nominated a member of The Arts Club on 16 June 1876, being proposed by Hubert von Herkomer seconded by Charles Samuel Keene. He shared a studio, owned by Mrs J. B. Philip, with Constance, at Merton Villa, 280A Kings Road. It was subsequently occupied by the sculptor Thomas Sterling Lee.

Bibliography:

Gosse, Edmond W., Cecil Lawson: A Memoir, exhibition catalogue, Fine Art Society, London, 1883; Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven an