William John Hennessy

William John Hennessy (* 1839 in Thomastown ( Kilkenny), Ireland, † 1917) was a British landscape painter.

Life

Hennessy moved at the age of ten years with his parents to New York, where from 1856 he received his artistic training in 1863 and was a member of the Academy.

In 1870 he settled in London where a lot of pictures in the Royal Academy ( Royal Academy of Arts), the Royal Society of British Artists, and in Liverpool and Manchester from. He did not lack of tasty ideas and motifs as well as lightness and ease of illustration; Expression and coloring are sometimes not in accordance with the idea.

Works (excerpt)

Among his first yet arisen in America and most of there remaining works are:

  • The spring time
  • In memoriam
  • The Wanderer
  • On the shore
  • A Byway in Normandy (watercolor )

And among his later works from London:

  • Autumn in New England
  • On the way to the feast
  • The good friends
  • Summer Evening on the River Thames
  • A street ballad
  • In the twilight
  • Morning in the forest
  • The return from the field ( watercolor)
County Kilkenny Watercolor painting
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