Algernon Talmage
{{Short description|British artist (1871–1939)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Algernon Mayow Talmage
| image = Algernon Talmage, by Algernon Talmage.jpg
| caption = Self portrait
| birth_date = {{birth-date|23 February 1871}}
| birth_place = Fifield, Oxfordshire
| death_date = {{d-da|14 September 1939|23 February 1871}}
| spouse = Gertrude Rowe (1896-1905), Hilda Fearon
}}
File:The Founding of Australia. By Capt. Arthur Phillip R.N. Sydney Cove, Jan. 26th 1788.jpg
Algernon Mayow Talmage (23 February 1871 – 14 September 1939) {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RA}} {{post-nominals|list=ROI}} was a British Impressionist painter.Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed 20 April 2008.
Life and education
Algernon Talmage was born in Fifield, Oxfordshire, the son of Rev. John Mayow Talmage, a clergyman of Cornish stock.{{Cite web|title=Algernon TALMAGE | Cornwall Artists Index|url=https://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/algernon-talmage|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514041121/http://www.cornwallartists.org:80/cornwall-artists/algernon-talmage |archive-date=14 May 2016 }} During his childhood, Talmage got into an accident with a gun, permanently injuring his right hand; as a result Talmage painted with his left hand and was exempt from active service in the First World War. In 1892, Talmage studied under Hubert von Herkomer at the Herkomer School of art in Bushey. During his time at Herkomer, Talmage painted alongside Lucy Kemp-Welch, both of whom had a great interest in painting landscapes and horses.{{Cite web|title=A biography of Algernon Talmage|url=https://busheymuseum.org/artists-algernon-talmage/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411014712/https://busheymuseum.org/artists-algernon-talmage/ |archive-date=11 April 2021 }} From there he moved to St Ives, Cornwall, where he joined the St Ives School. During his time in Cornwall Talmage founded an artists' club which was greatly influenced by the Cornish coastline. Talmage's time in Cornwall was significant in establishing his characteristic mellow palette and enchanting use of light.{{Cite web|title=Chris Beetles Gallery|url=https://www.chrisbeetles.com/artist/134/algernon-talmage-ra-rba-hre-roi-rwa|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628025930/https://www.chrisbeetles.com/artist/134/algernon-talmage-ra-rba-hre-roi-rwa |archive-date=28 June 2021 }} Talmage is best known for tutoring Emily Carr during her studies at St Ives when he lived and worked in his studio which was then called 'The Cabin' located on Westcotts Quay, St Ives.{{cite web|title=The Cabin aka Lambeth|url=http://www.cornishrivieraholidays.co.uk/property-details/10)-lambeth/P2015-0006|website=Lambeth|publisher=Cornish Riviera Holidays|access-date=17 February 2016}} His criticism was a significant early influence on her work, encouraging her earliest forays into the forest paintings that would eventually become her trademark. Carr's vivid palette grew from his critical reminder that "there is sunlight in the shadows."Tippett, Maria: "Emily Carr: A Biography." Stoddart: 1979, 1999. The well-known Australian painter Will Ashton was another of his students.
In 1896, Talmage married Cornish artist Gertrude Rowe and together they had two daughters, Archie and Dorothy. In 1900 Talmage and fellow St Ives School artist Albert Julius Olsson established the Cornish School of Landscape, Figure and Sea Painting. Later, Talmage and Gertrude ran their own art school, with Olsson acting as a 'visiting' artist. Talmage separated from Gertrude in 1907, and moved to Chelsea, London with his former-pupil Hilda Fearon.
Work and exhibitions
Throughout his career as an artist, Talmage worked with the mediums of landscape, portrait and animal painting, printing and etching. He held his first solo exhibition in the Goupil Gallery, London, 1909. Talmage is also well known for creating the painting 'The Founding of Australia', which was commissioned by the founder of the Australasian Pioneers Club to celebrate the sesquicentennial of 1938. The finished painting was unveiled at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1937.{{cite web |title=The Founding of Australia. By Capt Arthur Phillip RN Sydney Cove, Jan 26th 1788 |url=https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/founding-australia-capt-arthur-phillip-rn-sydney-cove-jan-26th-1788 |website=State Library of NSW |access-date=12 May 2020 |date=9 March 2018}} 50px Text was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License].
The painting depicts the moment Governor Phillip (in the centre of the painting) proposed a toast to King George III, on the evening of 26 January 1788, the day that the Fleet moved from Botany Bay to Sydney Cove. The painting is a celebration of righteousness and importance of colonisation, and a statement of the power of the British Empire.
He was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in October 1902.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court Circular |date=8 October 1902 |page=7 |issue=36893}} He was a war artist on the Western Front in France (below).
File:Algernon Talmage-CONVALESCENTS (CWM 19710261-0701).jpeg| Convalescents
File:Algernon Talmage-CAMP AT AGNY (CWM 19710261-0693).jpeg|Camp at Agny
File:Algernon Talmage-A Mobile Veterinary Unit in France (CWM 19710261-0699).jpeg| A Mobile Veterinary Unit in France
File:Algernon Talmage-AT AN EVACUATING STATION (CWM 19710261-0704).jpeg|At an Evacuating Station
File:Algernon Talmage-The Sulphur Dip for Mange (CWM 19710261-0692).jpeg|The Sulphur Dip for Mange
File:Algernon Talmage-A Mobile Veterinary Unit in France (CWM 19710261-0596).jpeg|A Mobile Veterinary Unit in France
File:Algernon Mayow Talmage-Estación de Cannon Street.jpg|Cannon Street Station
References
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External links
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- [http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5924 Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections]
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