John Henry Henshall

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John Henry Henshall, usually known as Henry Henshall

Life

Henshall was born in

Although Henshall did paint some oils he was principally a watercolourist, being elected an Associate of the RWS in 1883, and becoming one of the Society's forty full members in 1897. He exhibited 171 pictures at the RWS and his diploma work, La Serenata, may be viewed at the Society's Bankside gallery. A favourite theme of Henshall's work is the contrast between the happy innocence of childhood, without cares, and the tribulations of old age. He was not afraid to tackle uncomfortable subjects and his honest, realistic pictures of ordinary life were quite unusual for painters in the Victorian era. In April 1912 the Leicester Galleries in London had an exhibition of Henshall's watercolours of Country Folk (catalogue No. 162).

Henshall died in Bosham, near Chichester, on 18 November 1928, aged 72 and leaving behind his wife, Elizabeth Henshall.^[1]

References

John Ramm, ‘Out of Oblivion’, Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide, August 1990, Vol. 44 No. 1, pp. 45–47.