George Owen Wynne Apperley
Self-portrait (1915)
Born(1884-06-17)17 June 1884
Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England
Died10 September 1960(1960-09-10) (aged 76)
Tangier, Morocco
Known forPaintings
MovementRomanticism

George Owen Wynne Apperley (1884-1960) was a British painter. Described as “one of the finest” of the late Romantic artists, he worked mainly in Spain and in North Africa.

Life

Apperley was born at Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight, in 1884.[1][2] He trained briefly at the Herkomer School in Bushey, Hertfordshire, but was mostly self-taught.[3] He moved to Spain in 1917,[4] abandoning his British wife, Hilda Pope, and family,[5] and established himself in a carmen in the Albaicín district of Granada.[6] He became friends with many of the artists resident in the city,[lower-alpha 1] but was forced to leave in 1932 when his conservative political stance regarding the Second Spanish Republic led to the bombing of his house.[7] He moved with his second family, his muse and later wife, Enriqueta Contreras and their two sons, to Tangier, Morocco, where he died in 1960.[8] He is commemorated in Granada by a statue, unveiled in 2011.[9]

Works

Apperley first worked on Classical and mythological subjects. His moves to Spain, and subsequently Morocco, saw his focus shift to portraiture.[10] Examples of his work are held by the Victoria & Albert Museum,[lower-alpha 2] the Museo de Málaga, the Lady Lever Art Gallery and the Bushey Museum.[12]

Notes

  1. ↑ One of Apperley’s acquaintances was Federico García Lorca, who named a pastry of which Apperley was particularly fond “Apperlies”.[7]
  2. ↑ The V&A holds Apperley’s La Cordobesa, a watercolour dating from 1923.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Spanish Royal Academy of History. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "Apperley, George Owen Wynne (1884-1960)". Modernist Journals. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Apperley, George Owen Wynne, 1884–1960". Art UK. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Leighton Fine Art. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "Venus (1917)". Maas Gallery. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  6. ↑ Dizy Caso 1997, p. 22.
  7. 1 2 Requesens 2016, p. 97.
  8. ↑ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Christie's. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  9. ↑ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Andalucia.com. 16 November 2017.
  10. ↑ Requesens 2016, pp. 96–97.
  11. ↑ "La Cordobesa". V&A. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  12. ↑ "Nude by George Owen Wynne Apperley". Lusher Gallery. Retrieved 6 November 2022.

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