ERNEST NORMAND (BRITISH 1857-1923) A GIRL WITH A FAN Oil on canvas Signed and dated '1900' (lower right) 104 x 61.5cm (40¾ x 24 in.)In 1884 Ernest Normand married his fellow Royal Academy student Henrietta Rae and they joined the artistic community, dominated by Frederic, Lord Leighton. George Frederick Watts and other luminaries, in the Holland Park area of Kensington. Leighton, as president of the Royal Academy embodied the Victorian art establishment and took a personal interest in their progress. He profoundly influenced their treatment of classical subjects, and ensured that, like him, they contributed to the murals executed for the Royal Exchange in the City of London. In 1890 Normand and Rae both suffered a crisis of confidence when their pictures were hung badly at the Royal Academy and they decided to go to Paris to seek further instruction. They studied at the Academie Julian under Benjamin Constant and Jules Lefevre. They then went on to spend some weeks painting en plein air at Grez, the village near Barbizon which had been an inspirational centre for young artists of all nationalities since the early 1870s. Upon their return to London, Leighton was not complimentary about their stylistic development that had become more 'impressionistic' under the influence of the masters in Paris and Grez. In 1892, they therefore decided to leave the rather claustrophobic world of Holland Park and moved to Norwood in south-east London.
ERNEST NORMAND (BRITISH 1857-1923) A GIRL WITH A FAN Oil on canvas Signed and dated '1900' (lower right) 104 x 61.5cm (40¾ x 24 in.)In 1884 Ernest Normand married his fellow Royal Academy student Henrietta Rae and they joined the artistic community, dominated by Frederic, Lord Leighton. George Frederick Watts and other luminaries, in the Holland Park area of Kensington. Leighton, as president of the Royal Academy embodied the Victorian art establishment and took a personal interest in their progress. He profoundly influenced their treatment of classical subjects, and ensured that, like him, they contributed to the murals executed for the Royal Exchange in the City of London. In 1890 Normand and Rae both suffered a crisis of confidence when their pictures were hung badly at the Royal Academy and they decided to go to Paris to seek further instruction. They studied at the Academie Julian under Benjamin Constant and Jules Lefevre. They then went on to spend some weeks painting en plein air at Grez, the village near Barbizon which had been an inspirational centre for young artists of all nationalities since the early 1870s. Upon their return to London, Leighton was not complimentary about their stylistic development that had become more 'impressionistic' under the influence of the masters in Paris and Grez. In 1892, they therefore decided to leave the rather claustrophobic world of Holland Park and moved to Norwood in south-east London.
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