Arnold Henry Mason
Arnold Henry Mason
Early life and education
Mason was born at
Career
Mason worked in Paris and Rome. In 1906 he was Assistant to Sir
In 1940, Mason became an Associate of the Royal Academy; he was accepted as a Royal Academician in 1951 and a senior member of the R.A. in 1960.
Mason died aged 78 on 17 November 1963 in Kensington, London.
Works
Although sometimes described as a landscape and portrait painter,[3][4] he is best known as a portrait painter in oils and pencil portraits on paper. His works can be seen in the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy Galleries in London,[5] and the National Library of Australia.[6] Most of his finished portraits are signed, often with "Arnold Mason" followed by the last two digits of the year date. Most of his works date from 1910 to 1962.
One of his most notable oil paintings on canvas is to be seen at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Titled Elinor Glyn[7] it was painted by 1942, and purchased in 1962. Other paintings are to be found in the collections of the Derby Museum[8] the Norfolk County Museums,[9] the University of Melbourne, Australia[10] and the Dudmaston Museum in Shropshire.[11]
References
- ^ The London Studio. W.E. Rudge. 1938. p. 166.
- ^ James Fergusson (5 June 1995). OBITUARY:Roy Beddington.
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ignored (help) - ^ Adrian Bury (1938). Oil Painting of To-Day. Studio, Limited. p. 124.
- ISBN 978-0-906030-00-4.
- ^ Artworks by or after Arnold Henry Mason at the Art UK site
- ^ "Portrait of Basil Burdett". National Library of Australia
- ^ "Elinor Glyn" Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. National Trust Collections.
- ^ "It's the £1 million question: should Derby sell its Lowry painting?".[permanent dead link] Derby Telegraph.
- ^ Head of Museums and Archaeology Update"[permanent dead link]. Norfolk.gov.uk.
- ^ "Facing Percy Grainger - National Library of Australia".
- ^ "Olive Mary Wolryche-Whitmore, Mrs Eustace Scott Hamilton-Russell (1879-1951)" Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. National Trust Collections.