George Clausen

George Clausen (1852–1944) was born in London, the son of a decorative artist of Danish descent, and attended design classes at the South Kensington Schools from 1867 to 1873. He then worked in the studio of Edwin Long and studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury, and he admired the naturalism of Jules Bastien-Lepage. He became one of the foremost modern painters of landscape and country life, sharing with the Impressionists the view that light is the real subject of landscape painting; his Girl at the Gate was acquired for the Tate. A founding member of the New English Art Club in 1886, he became a full Royal Academician in 1906, lectured to its students as Professor of Painting, served as an official war artist in the First World War, and was knighted in 1927. Here: High Mass.