Henry Martin Pope
Born1843 Edit this on Wikidata
Birmingham Edit this on Wikidata
Died8 February 1908 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 64–65)
OccupationPainter, lithographer, art educator Edit this on Wikidata
Collecting Apples (watercolour and gouache)
One of Pope's series of 24 etchings of Dudley Castle and Dudley Priory[1]

Henry Martin Pope (1843-1908) was an English painter, engraver and art teacher, known primarily for landscapes, which he painted in oil or watercolour.

Pope was born in 1843 in Birmingham, England.[1][2] He trained as a lithographer and was taught painting by Samuel Lines.[1] He was a founder, with Walter Langley and others, of the Birmingham Art Circle and taught art in the city.[lower-alpha 1][1] He served for eleven years as president of the Clarendon Art Fellowship.[3] He visited Newlyn with Langley from 1880.[3]

His works are in the collections of Birmingham Museums Trust, the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, y Gaer and Dudley Museums.[1][2][4] He exhibited with the Birmingham Art Circle and at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.[3]

He died on 8 February 1908.[5]

Notes

  1. Birmingham became a city in 1889; prior to that it was an incorporated town with borough status.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Temporary exhibition: Artist in focus". Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Pope, Henry Martin, 1843–1908". Art UK. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Henry Martin Pope". Cornwall Artists Index. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  4. "The Stratford Canal". Watercolour World. 26 February 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  5. "Ontdek schilder Henry Martin Pope" (in Dutch). RKD. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

Further reading

  • Langley, Roger (2011). Walter Langley, From Birmingham to Newlyn. Bristol: Sansom & Co. pp. 117–119.
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