JACOMB-HOOD, George Percy

1857 - 1929

George Percy Jacomb-Hood was born at Woodlands Road, Redhill, Surrey on 6 July 1857, the fourth of nine children (two of whom died in infancy) and eldest son of Robert Jacomb-Hood (25 January 1822-10 May 1900), chief engineer on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and his wife Jane Stothard née Littlewood (1827-1869). George was educated at Tonbridge School and won a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art studying under Edward Poynter (1836-1919) and Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) and winning a travelling scholarship to Madrid and touring in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921) and exhibiting at the Paris Salon. In 1879 he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery and one of the original members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and was Honorary Treasurer of the Chelsea Arts Club. He married at Marylebone, London on 28 June 1910, Hon Henrietta (Reta) Kemble de Hochepied-Larpent (26 September 1867-16 February 1941), third daughter of Arthur John de Hochepied-Larpent, Hungarian 8th Baron, and the married couple went to live at 26 Tite Street, Chelsea, they also had a house in West Street, Rye, East Sussex. Jacomb-Hood was a portrait painter, illustrator & etcher and regularly produced illustrations for 'The Graphic' who gave him several overseas assignments and in 1896 sent him to Greece and to Delhi. In 1902, he accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales on their 1905 tour of India and in 1911, a member of King George V's staff on his 1911 tour of India. He exhibited at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1923, two oil paintings 'Under the Street Lamp' and 'A Woman of Modern Greece' and exhibited in Natal, South Africa. George Percy Jacomb-Hood was of 26 Tite Street, Chelsea when he died at Villa Costa Bella, Alassio, Italy on 11 December 1929, aged 72. Author of his autobiography 'With Brush and Pencil' (1925). He signed his works 'G. P. Jacomb-Hood' disjoined with a date.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 8 Trafalgar Studios, 8 King's Road, Chelsea
1879 765 'Love hailed a Little Maid' - watercolour
         932 Walter Dalrymple, Esq.
         1005 St Simeon Stylites
1880 257 Mercy at the Wicket gate
from c/o Chapman Bros., 251 King's Road, Chelsea
1882 131 Portrait of an Etcher
from 3 Wentworth Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea
1887 595 Whither?
1889 612 Mr. Alderman Gibbs, Mayor of Croydon, 1887,8,9
1890 436 Miss Shaw-Lefevre, late President of Somerville Hall, Oxford
         1059 Robinson Ellis, M.A., Trinity, Oxford
         1064 The Rt. Rev. The Lord Bishop of St Alban's
         1166 The Witches Dance
1891 2090 Mask for a Fountain - bronze
         2094 Mask for a Fountain - bronze
from 26 Tite Street, Chelsea
1892 219 Summer
1893 278 F. Seymour Haden, Esq., President of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers
         442 R Dauntesey, Esq.
         449 The Nurse


from 21 Tite Street, Chelsea
1925 548 Elsie

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Works by This Artist