DE GALE, Jean Hervey

1935 - 2016

As Elizabeth Jean Hervey, she was born at Westminster, London on 7 May 1935, daughter of Eric Sedgwick Hervey (6 December 1879-16 December 1963) and his second wife Marjorie Worth (1 October 1902-29 August 1988), second daughter of Arthur Hovenden Worth of Hovenden House, Fleet, who married at Fleet, Lincolnshire in 1927 and they lived at The Grove, Little Bealings, Suffolk, his first wife was Isabel Elizabeth McLean (1887-1917), who married in 1907 and who died at The White House, Woodbridge, Suffolk on 21 July 1917. Jean studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art 1954-1958 and as an artist was influenced by her uncle Gerald Hervey and she also studied under painter Anna Airy. Working in a variety of media, but by the 1960s she was focused on pastels, which remained her trademark through to her final years and she specialised in portraits, houses and gardens but experimented with periods of scraperboard; an occasional return to oils; textiles; life drawing in pen, pencil or charcoal; and a late-flourishing career as an architectural artist, taking commissions and illustrating for many of the tourist information boards in the area. She married at Little Bealings, Ipswich in December 1965, David De Gale, after which she painted under the name of Jean De Gale. Jean exhibited at the Royal Academy; the Royal Society of Marine Artists; the Royal Society of Portrait Painters; the Society of Botanical Artists and at Mall Galleries, London. A member of the Ipswich Art Club 1963-1978 and as Mrs Jean De Gale exhibited from Dernford Hall, Sweffling, Saxmundham, Suffolk in 1978, three paintings 'Near Diano Calderina', 'Peasant Group, Diano Colderina' and 'Old Chapel, Diano Calderina'. After her move to Stamford, Lincolnshire Jean also exhibited at the Welland Valley Art Society, Stamford in 2011 which included two mixed media works 'Portrait Study' and 'Ancient Olive Tree', a pastel 'Turquoise Turban' and a pastel & pen 'Grenada, W.I.'. A repeating theme of Jean's work was travel, including Scotland, Wales, New York, Italy, Grenada, Holland, France and elsewhere always leaving pictures as gifts. Elizabeth Jean De Gale died on 20 October 2016, aged 81 leaving a husband David and two sons.

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Works by This Artist