xt7qjq0stw34_5412 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection John Callcott Horsley letters, with clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. John Callcott Horsley letters, with clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_62/Folder_79/Multipage28613.pdf 1838-1876, undated 1876 1838-1876, undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_5412 xt7qjq0stw34 HORSLEY (JOHN CALLCOTT), R.A.
B. 1817. D. 1903.

John Calicott Horsley was born in London on January 29th,
1817. He was the son of William Horsley, the musician.
Horsley studied at the Royal Academy Schools, and at the age
of nineteen produced the picture “Rent Day at Haddon H31]
in the Sixteenth Century,” which was praised by Wilkie. “The
Pride of the Village,” now in this Gallery, was the first picture
Horsley exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1843 his cartoon
of “ St. Augustine Preaching” gained one of the 200 guinea prizes
in the Westminster Hall competition, and in 1844 he obtained a
place among the six painters commissioned to execute further
designs for the Palace of Westminster. Horsley, with Cope, a
fellow competitor, went to Munich to study fresco painting, and
afterwards proceeded to Italy to see the works of the early
Italian masters. His fresco in the House of Lords, called “ The
Spirit of Religion,” painted in 1845, may he said to be the
result of this journey. Another painting in the same Inclium
is to be found in the Poets’ Hall of the New Palace, and is
entitled, “Satan surprised at the Ear of Eve "; and “Henry ‘37.,
believing the King dead, assumes the Crown,” a large oil paint-
ing of 1847, secured Horsley a premium of the third class. Of
his easel pieces some of the better known are “Malvolio in the
Sun practising to his own Shadow,” “Hospitality,” and two
paintings commissioned by the Prince Consort, “ L’Allegro" and
“ 11 Penseroso.” For two frescoes painted for the Hall of
Somerleyton, Horsley went back to early English history, and
represented incidents in the childhood of Alfred the Great. In
1858 he purchased Willesley, at Cranbrook, in Kent, giving his
first commission to Mr. Norman Shaw to restore and enlarge the
house. Here he painted some of his rustic pieces, such as “Hide
and Seek," children playing in Cranbrook Churchard.

 

  

  

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