George Owen Wynne Apperley | |
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 Self-portrait (1915) | |
| Born | 17 June 1884 Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England |
| Died | 10 September 1960 (aged 76) Tangier, Morocco |
| Known for | Paintings |
| Movement | Romanticism |
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,[a] 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,[b] the Museo de Málaga, the Lady Lever Art Gallery and the Bushey Museum.[12]
Gallery
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Horses of St Mark, Venice (1905) -
Joven bailando (c.1920) -
Eternal Idol - Apperley's muse, lover, and second wife, Enriqueta Contreras (1931) -
Carmen Apperley, the painter’s Albaicin home -
Statue commemorating Apperley in Granada (2011)
Notes
- ^ One of Apperley’s acquaintances was Federico García Lorca, who named a pastry of which Apperley was particularly fond “Apperlies”.[7]
- ^ The V&A holds Apperley’s La Cordobesa, a watercolour dating from 1923.[11]
References
- ^ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Spanish Royal Academy of History. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ "Apperley, George Owen Wynne (1884-1960)". Modernist Journals. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ "Apperley, George Owen Wynne, 1884–1960". Art UK. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Leighton Fine Art. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ "Venus (1917)". Maas Gallery. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ Dizy Caso 1997, p. 22.
- ^ a b Requesens 2016, p. 97.
- ^ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Christie's. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Andalucia.com. 16 November 2017.
- ^ Requesens 2016, pp. 96–97.
- ^ "La Cordobesa". V&A. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ "Nude by George Owen Wynne Apperley". Lusher Gallery. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
Sources
- Dizy Caso, Eduardo (1997). Les orientalistes de l'ecole espagnole (in French). Paris: ACR. ISBN 978-2-867-70106-1.
- Requesens, Cesar (2016). Secret Granada. Versailles, France: Jonglez Publishing. ISBN 978-2-361-95025-5.
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