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Leake, Percy: The work of Claude Hayes
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Claude Hayes
" figure " being dragged in. In the picture repro- at Christie's, where the Saturday sales of pictures
duced in colours—the property of the Rev. G. were to him an education in themselves. A warm
Davies—we get all the characteristics of Claude and mutual friendship sprang up between him and
Hayes' colouring, and when we look back only a William Estall, which may have further confirmed
few years, to the autumn of 1897, when Mr. him in his love for this style of painting at a time
Thompson regretted the impossibility of showing in when Constable was out of fashion and Corot was
any adequate way the colouring of William Estall's not a word to conjure with.
sketches, we may be proud of the art which, thanks We do not know to what extent this deep and
to The Studio, has made such strides that to-day lasting friendship affected the lives of both men,
we obtain a reproduction of the delicate colours but we know that Claude Hayes owes much that
that only an artist can bring together successfully is worth having in life to William Estall, for at his
on his canvas. house he met Mrs. Estall's beautiful sister, whom
No one seeing this picture of sheep will doubt he afterwards married,
that they are faithful studies from life, as is also At the age of twenty-five he was elected a
the reproduction on page 296 of the drawing member of the Royal Institute of Painters in
on brown paper of a sheepfold in early morning, Water-Colours, and since his first picture, The
with the modern appliance for cutting roots, and Loiterers, was hung on the line in the Royal
the shepherd, so unlike the conventional arcadic Academy, no year passes without a large number
effect obtained by the
ordinary artist's shepherd.
Early on such a misty
morning in spring Claude
Hayes may be seen work-
ing at such subjects—:
working till the very cha-
racter of the sheep is known
to him. A line here and
there is enough to print
on his brain the effect
which the chilly morning
and bleating sheep give,
and slight as his studies
in chalk are, they are
individual and not con-
ventional sheep.
Claude Hayes comes
from a stock of painters,
and as soon as he left
school he determined to
be an artist. Before he
went to sea and while he
was a sailor, he was con-
tinually drawing for his
own amusement, but it was
not till he was twenty-two
years old that he became
an art student in every
sense of the word. While
studying at the Royal
Academy Schools, he was
much influenced by the so-
called Romanticist Schools,
examples of which continu-
ally came before his notice "preparing for work: winter" by claude hayes
292
" figure " being dragged in. In the picture repro- at Christie's, where the Saturday sales of pictures
duced in colours—the property of the Rev. G. were to him an education in themselves. A warm
Davies—we get all the characteristics of Claude and mutual friendship sprang up between him and
Hayes' colouring, and when we look back only a William Estall, which may have further confirmed
few years, to the autumn of 1897, when Mr. him in his love for this style of painting at a time
Thompson regretted the impossibility of showing in when Constable was out of fashion and Corot was
any adequate way the colouring of William Estall's not a word to conjure with.
sketches, we may be proud of the art which, thanks We do not know to what extent this deep and
to The Studio, has made such strides that to-day lasting friendship affected the lives of both men,
we obtain a reproduction of the delicate colours but we know that Claude Hayes owes much that
that only an artist can bring together successfully is worth having in life to William Estall, for at his
on his canvas. house he met Mrs. Estall's beautiful sister, whom
No one seeing this picture of sheep will doubt he afterwards married,
that they are faithful studies from life, as is also At the age of twenty-five he was elected a
the reproduction on page 296 of the drawing member of the Royal Institute of Painters in
on brown paper of a sheepfold in early morning, Water-Colours, and since his first picture, The
with the modern appliance for cutting roots, and Loiterers, was hung on the line in the Royal
the shepherd, so unlike the conventional arcadic Academy, no year passes without a large number
effect obtained by the
ordinary artist's shepherd.
Early on such a misty
morning in spring Claude
Hayes may be seen work-
ing at such subjects—:
working till the very cha-
racter of the sheep is known
to him. A line here and
there is enough to print
on his brain the effect
which the chilly morning
and bleating sheep give,
and slight as his studies
in chalk are, they are
individual and not con-
ventional sheep.
Claude Hayes comes
from a stock of painters,
and as soon as he left
school he determined to
be an artist. Before he
went to sea and while he
was a sailor, he was con-
tinually drawing for his
own amusement, but it was
not till he was twenty-two
years old that he became
an art student in every
sense of the word. While
studying at the Royal
Academy Schools, he was
much influenced by the so-
called Romanticist Schools,
examples of which continu-
ally came before his notice "preparing for work: winter" by claude hayes
292