Henry Sass
Henry Sass | |
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Royal Academy | |
Occupation | educator |
Known for | founding a school for artists |
Henry Sass (24 April 1788 – 1844) was an English artist and teacher of painting, who founded an important art school, Sass's Academy (later "Cary's Academy"), in
Life and work
Sass was born in London. His father, who was also an artist, belonged to an old Courland family from what is now Latvia. Sass's father and mother settled in London after their marriage and his elder half-brother Richard Sass became a landscape painter and art tutor to members of the royal family.[2]
Sass became a student at the
Sass decided to open the first school of drawing for artists who were intending to study at the Royal Academy' school. Sass established it in a house at No. 6
Sass's Academy is caricatured in the novel "
Sass was now well off and he and Mary entertained the intelligentsia of the day. Among his friends were
Artistic Recognition
A bust of Sass by William Grinsell Nicholl was commissioned in 1820.[7]
References
- ^ Portraits of Henry sass (National Portrait gallery)
- ^ a b c d Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 310–1.
- ^ a b c London higher: the establishment of higher education in London, Roderick Floud, p.282, 1998, accessed 15 August 2010
- ^ Henry Sass. A journey to Rome and Naples, performed in 1817 (London: Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme & Brown, 1818)
- ^ P.R.A. = President of the Royal Academy; R.A. = Royal Academician.
- ^ Rowland McMaster. Thackeray's cultural frame of reference: allusion in The Newcomes (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991) pp. 91-2.
- ^ dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis
Further reading
- William Powell Frith. My autobiography and reminiscences, volume 1 (New York: Harper & brothers, 1888), chapter 4 - "The School of Art".
External links
- Sass's Academy Archived 23 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine