DOI Heft:
No. 250 (February 1914)
DOI Artikel:Cecil King, R. B. A.: a painter of cities
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21209#0043
Cecil King, R.B.A.
"by the steps of st. peter's, rome" water-colour by cecii. king, r.b.a.
a year or two with the idea of adopting engineering greatly in knowledge and understanding of his craft
as his profession and became a student member of by the judicious use of the opportunities which
the Institute of Civil Engineers. But during this Paris offered to him, he began to make a name as
period he was acquiring also some knowledge of an illustrator. His drawings were accepted by the
art practice by attending the evening classes in " Sphere," the " Illustrated London News," and
drawing at the Goldsmiths' Institute, New Cross, other papers ; and by the " Illustrated London
In 1903 he finally abandoned his engineering News" he was sent to Paris to make drawings of
studies and went instead to the Westminster School the flood scenes and to Portugal to illustrate
of Art, where he worked in the life class under Mr. episodes in the revolution of 1910. At this time,
Mouat Loudan, and shortly after he joined the too, he was busy with poster-work for various
Artists' Society and the Langham Sketching Club for shipping firms, with designs in which he was able to
the evening practice in drawing and composition satisfy some of his earlier aspirations towards
which has proved a boon to many young artists. marine painting.
A visit to Holland followed in 1904, where his But although all these varieties of occupation
study of the pictures of the Dutch marine painters have played a very important part in the formation
revived in him one of the ambitions of his child- of his artistic character, the influence that has,
hood—to become a painter of the sea—and in perhaps, counted for most in his development and
19°6, in which year he exhibited his first picture, in making him the artist he is to-day has been his
>n the galleries of the Royal Institute of Painters love of travel. Ever since he left Paris he has
in Water Colours, he went to Paris to work for a seized every opportunity of seeing the world and of
3'ear at Julian's under Jean Paul Laurens. While working in as many places as possible abroad,
m Paris he attended also a class for composition, Already his wanderings have taken him to France,
^lustration, and similar subjects, directed by Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and
Steinlen; and he spent much of his spare time in Morocco, and he has ambitions, which he hopes
sketching people and things in the highways and befoie long to satisfy, to visit India, China, and
by-ways of the city. other parts of the East, and to cross the Atlantic
When he returned to England, having gained and paint the cities of America.
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"by the steps of st. peter's, rome" water-colour by cecii. king, r.b.a.
a year or two with the idea of adopting engineering greatly in knowledge and understanding of his craft
as his profession and became a student member of by the judicious use of the opportunities which
the Institute of Civil Engineers. But during this Paris offered to him, he began to make a name as
period he was acquiring also some knowledge of an illustrator. His drawings were accepted by the
art practice by attending the evening classes in " Sphere," the " Illustrated London News," and
drawing at the Goldsmiths' Institute, New Cross, other papers ; and by the " Illustrated London
In 1903 he finally abandoned his engineering News" he was sent to Paris to make drawings of
studies and went instead to the Westminster School the flood scenes and to Portugal to illustrate
of Art, where he worked in the life class under Mr. episodes in the revolution of 1910. At this time,
Mouat Loudan, and shortly after he joined the too, he was busy with poster-work for various
Artists' Society and the Langham Sketching Club for shipping firms, with designs in which he was able to
the evening practice in drawing and composition satisfy some of his earlier aspirations towards
which has proved a boon to many young artists. marine painting.
A visit to Holland followed in 1904, where his But although all these varieties of occupation
study of the pictures of the Dutch marine painters have played a very important part in the formation
revived in him one of the ambitions of his child- of his artistic character, the influence that has,
hood—to become a painter of the sea—and in perhaps, counted for most in his development and
19°6, in which year he exhibited his first picture, in making him the artist he is to-day has been his
>n the galleries of the Royal Institute of Painters love of travel. Ever since he left Paris he has
in Water Colours, he went to Paris to work for a seized every opportunity of seeing the world and of
3'ear at Julian's under Jean Paul Laurens. While working in as many places as possible abroad,
m Paris he attended also a class for composition, Already his wanderings have taken him to France,
^lustration, and similar subjects, directed by Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and
Steinlen; and he spent much of his spare time in Morocco, and he has ambitions, which he hopes
sketching people and things in the highways and befoie long to satisfy, to visit India, China, and
by-ways of the city. other parts of the East, and to cross the Atlantic
When he returned to England, having gained and paint the cities of America.
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