And why did he come back so soon ?
2006-10-16 10:45:11 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
The marine painter Charles Napier Hemy was born in Newcastle, but his family emigrated to Australia in 1852 (a brother was born on board ship). They settled in Melbourne. Napier Hemy returned in 1855, after two and a half years, working on a ship for a time, then painting in monasteries back home in Newcastle, and in Lyons. He studied at Newcastle School of Art, under William Bell Scott, and later worked under Baron Leys in Antwerp. In 1870 he moved to London, and eventually made his home in Falmouth in 1881.
I haven't been able to find out what the rest of the family did, but if he came home working his passage it sounds as though he didn't really settle down Down Under.
2006-10-16 11:05:59 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋