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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.[a][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. ^ a b c d e "Temporary exhibition: Artist in focus". Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Pope, Henry Martin, 1843–1908". Art UK. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "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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