DOI Heft:
No. 128 (November, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Staley, Edgcumbe: A Danish marine painter: Lauritz Holst
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0142
A Danish Painter
Hoist remained at Copenhagen until he was
twenty years of age, and then his passionate love
of the sea inspired him with a longing to view the
mighty ocean, and to visit other lands.
Landing at New York in 1868, with his humble
kit and his box of colours, he visited in turn
Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and the coasts of
Mexico and Central America.
A year spent at Chicago made his work known
to a considerable clientele, which was not slow to
detect his talent. Returning from his rambles in
1871, he was elected an Associate of the Chicago
Academy. However, soon the Dane's love of
home began to affect him, and home he felt he
must go.
The reunion with his own kith and kin was, of
course, delightful; but after the magnificent dis-
tances and ambitions of America, Copenhagen
looked small and sleepy. " Routine and red-
tape," he says, "seemed to be wrapped round
everything. I felt that I had no scope. My
thoughts turned to Great Britain, whose history
was so pleasantly interwoven with that of my own
Fatherland."
Accordingly, early in 1873, he once more packed
up his things, and took passage for England. The
wild eastern coast, which had so much in common
with his own sea-girt home, attracted him. He
settled down at Scarborough, and there for ten
happy years he lived the open-air, spray-wet life he
loved so much.
On and on Hoist worked—his patrons, from
the great centres of industry in that " North
Countrie," bearing off his canvases as soon
as they were painted. His name became a house-
hold word in Yorkshire, and there is scarcely a
collection of art-treasures in the wide county of
the Tykes which does not contain an example of
his work.
Hoist first became an exhibitor at the Royal
Academy in 1878, when his picture, The Derelict,
was accepted. Urged by patrons from the South,
who had seen him and his work during visits to
the Yorkshire coast, Hoist made up his mind to re-
move to London. His reputation preceded him, for
directly he entered upon the tenancy of the vacant
studio of Professor Herkomer, at Chelsea, in 1883,
he received many commissions for sea pictures.
Some of these have been exhibited at Burlington
House, for example, The Atlantic Roll, Europa
Point, Gibraltar from the Sea, and Ice Bound. In
1892 Hoist took up his quarters in his present
studio in Clairville Grove, South Kensington.
In 1890 Mr. Hoist was appointed Marine Painter
to the Czar of Russia. At this period, too, the late
good Queen Louise of Denmark honoured Hoist
BY L. HOLST
Hoist remained at Copenhagen until he was
twenty years of age, and then his passionate love
of the sea inspired him with a longing to view the
mighty ocean, and to visit other lands.
Landing at New York in 1868, with his humble
kit and his box of colours, he visited in turn
Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and the coasts of
Mexico and Central America.
A year spent at Chicago made his work known
to a considerable clientele, which was not slow to
detect his talent. Returning from his rambles in
1871, he was elected an Associate of the Chicago
Academy. However, soon the Dane's love of
home began to affect him, and home he felt he
must go.
The reunion with his own kith and kin was, of
course, delightful; but after the magnificent dis-
tances and ambitions of America, Copenhagen
looked small and sleepy. " Routine and red-
tape," he says, "seemed to be wrapped round
everything. I felt that I had no scope. My
thoughts turned to Great Britain, whose history
was so pleasantly interwoven with that of my own
Fatherland."
Accordingly, early in 1873, he once more packed
up his things, and took passage for England. The
wild eastern coast, which had so much in common
with his own sea-girt home, attracted him. He
settled down at Scarborough, and there for ten
happy years he lived the open-air, spray-wet life he
loved so much.
On and on Hoist worked—his patrons, from
the great centres of industry in that " North
Countrie," bearing off his canvases as soon
as they were painted. His name became a house-
hold word in Yorkshire, and there is scarcely a
collection of art-treasures in the wide county of
the Tykes which does not contain an example of
his work.
Hoist first became an exhibitor at the Royal
Academy in 1878, when his picture, The Derelict,
was accepted. Urged by patrons from the South,
who had seen him and his work during visits to
the Yorkshire coast, Hoist made up his mind to re-
move to London. His reputation preceded him, for
directly he entered upon the tenancy of the vacant
studio of Professor Herkomer, at Chelsea, in 1883,
he received many commissions for sea pictures.
Some of these have been exhibited at Burlington
House, for example, The Atlantic Roll, Europa
Point, Gibraltar from the Sea, and Ice Bound. In
1892 Hoist took up his quarters in his present
studio in Clairville Grove, South Kensington.
In 1890 Mr. Hoist was appointed Marine Painter
to the Czar of Russia. At this period, too, the late
good Queen Louise of Denmark honoured Hoist
BY L. HOLST