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HOME WITH THE TIDE By JAMES CLARK HOOK

HOME WITH THE TIDE
By JAMES CLARK HOOK, R.A. (1819-1907)
IN THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON

From his earliest years, Hook displayed that love of the sea and the life associated with it, as well as the capacity for picturing it, which made him famous in later life. He showed a marked precocity, and at a tender age made up his mind to be an artist. First of all he studied on his own account, and for more than a year worked without supervision in the Sculpture Galleries of the British Museum. When he was seventeen he became a student at the Academy Schools, where he learned the technique of painting for three years. He exhibited his first picture, " The Hard Task," at the age of eighteen.

Five years elapsed before he exhibited another picture, but in the meantime he had been earning his living and furthering his studies in Ireland, where he painted portraits and developed his taste for landscape work in the Vale of Avoca. This second picture was a portrait, and during the year he gained a silver medal at the Royal Academy. In 1844 he exhibited in the Academy a picture illustrating a scene from "The Decameron" (Pamphilius relating his Story), which was noteworthy as initiating a series of literary studies which gained him great popularity because of their romantic picturesqueness and the brilliant manner in which he treated them.

In 1846 he gained a travelling scholarship and journeyed to Italy via Paris and Switzerland. The influence of this visit was soon seen in his work, not only in the treatment and colouring of his paintings, but also in their subjects. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1851 as the result of these works, and soon afterwards he began the superb series of English landscape and marine studies which revealed his own peculiar talents, and have preserved his memory in the grateful hearts of picture-lovers.

From the book "Famous Paintings" Volume 2 printed in 1913.

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