HENRY TOWNELEY GREEN-WATERCOLOUR-LADY AND CHILD IN GARDEN

HENRY TOWNELEY GREEN RI
1836 – 1899

Picking Flowers

Watercolour
Signed & dated 1868
Frame size: 18 x 21½ inches / 45.75 x 54.5 cm
Stock Number: SW001/MAR14
Price: £1650

Henry Towneley Green, was an English watercolour painter and illustrator who exhibited from 1855 at the Royal Academy and the New Society of Painters in Watercolours. He became a member of the New Watercolour Society in 1879. He was the brother of Charles Green R.I. (1840–1898), a leading illustrator for The Graphic. The two brothers produced illustrations for Once a Week, and the Cornhill Magazine, edited by Thackeray, and regular contributed to by Millais and Leighton. Some of Greens work may be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum.