Herbert Dicksee

Painting, Visual Artist

1862 – 1942

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Who was Herbert Dicksee?

Herbert Thomas Dicksee was an English painter who specialised in oil paintings of dogs, particularly the deerhound. Prints and etchings of his best-known paintings were widely distributed by publishers such as Klackner of London, and his work is popular among collectors and dog enthusiasts today.

Dicksee belonged to an illustrious artistic family. His father was the artist John Dicksee. John's brother Thomas, also a painter, was the father of Sir Frank Dicksee, president of the Royal Academy from 1924 until his death. Dicksee studied art at the Slade School, London, on a scholarship. His first painting was exhibited in 1881.

Dicksee specialised in sympathetic paintings of hounds, such as "After Chevy Chase" and "Silent Sympathy", but he also painted big cats at the London Zoo, of which he was a Fellow. His paintings were usually done from life; he kept numerous dogs as pets. Those pets featured in his etchings included a bloodhound, a French bulldog named "Shaver", and several pugs and bull terriers.

Many of Dicksee's works, especially those painted during the war years of 1914–1918, depict the dogs accompanying melancholy young ladies.

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Born
Jun 14, 1862
London
Also known as
  • Herbert Thomas Dicksee
Nationality
  • England
Education
  • Slade School of Fine Art
Died
1942
Hampstead

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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