J. Doyle Penrose
James Doyle Penrose
Biography
James Doyle Penrose was a well known portrait artist, sculptor and painter of religious subjects born in County Wicklow, Ireland. He was a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. He came from a family of prosperous Quakers and was formally trained in London at two Royal Academy of Arts schools: St John's Wood Art School and the Royal College of Art in South Kensington.
Penrose left Ireland with his father and family about 1890 to settle in Hertfordshire near London. He exhibited his work regularly at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from the 1890s until 1927. He travelled extensively in Canada.
He married Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, a daughter of
They had a strict upbringing at Oxhey Grange, Watford. James Doyle Penrose owned the wider Oxhey Grange Estate. In its development of Watford Heath, he included the Rose Tea Cottage and Gardens, in an attempt to attract the local workforce away from the nearby public houses. Penrose was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Cambridgeshire on 15 October 1903.[3]
His wife Elizabeth aged 72 died in July 1930 at Watford.[4] He died in Bognor Regis on Saturday 2 January 1932.[5]
Legacy
Penrose is known primarily for his religious and mythological paintings. Other works include paintings of the
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Idun and the Apples, 1890
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Freya, 1890
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The Last Chapter, 1902
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The Punishment Of Loki, 1912
References
- ^ Mr. J. D. Penrose (Obituaries) The Times Monday, Jan 04, 1932; pg. 17; Issue 46021; col B
- ^ 'PENROSE, J. Doyle', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 23 Oct 2013
- ^ "No. 27607". The London Gazette. 20 October 1903. p. 6372.
- ^ "Elizabeth Josephine Penrose". Dundee Evening Telegraph. 31 July 1930. p. 8.
- ^ "County News". Bexhill-on-Sea Observer. 9 January 1932. p. 7.
- ^ "James Doyle Penrose". www.artuk.org. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ "Penrose". www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2021.