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| Septimus Power, The End of the Day |
H. Septimus Power (1877-1951) was a New-Zealand-born Australian artist who was always fascinated with horses.
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| H. Septimus Power, Horse Cart, Watercolor |
He got an early job painting animal heads on butchers' delivery vans, and later worked for a veterinarian.
He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and then moved to London, exhibiting at the Royal Academy. Arthur Streeton said of him: "One is impressed first by a tremendous display of colour and a dauntless feeling of optimism … He displays remarkable knowledge and vigour in his paintings of animals."
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| H. Septimus Power, Bringing Up the Guns |
In World War I he worked as a war artist, specializing in scenes with horses. The biplane is almost a ghost in the distance.
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HSP profiled in the Australian Dictionary of Biography
4 comments:
These are magnificent.
I am always impressed by the artist who can model and portray animals with such skill and understanding. Horse whisperer with a brush.
Horses are so hard to portray essentially and combined with their role in our history, it's quite a challenge. I love when an artist captures their character so courageously as these paintings. These are great.
Stunning paintings full of character.
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