TALMAGE, Algernon Mayow

1871 - 1939

Algernon Mayow Talmage was born at Fifield Rectory, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire on 23 February 1871, son of Revd John Mayow Talmage (1 August 1813-31 January 1883) and his second wife Susan Savage née Penkivil (30 December 1841-2 March 1915), who married at Kensington, London in 1866, he married his first wife Louisa South at Charlbury, Oxfordshire on 23 January 1845, she died at Chipping Norton in 1863. In 1871, Algernon was a newly born child, living at Fifield Rectory with his parents, 56-year-old John and 29-year-old Susan, with a younger sibling John Mayow Lionel 2. As a child Talmage had an accident with a gun injuring his right hand resulting in Talmage painting with his left hand. Algernon studied at Herkomer's Art School at Bushey and at St Ives, Cornwall. He married at The Church of St Stephen, Treleigh, near Redruth, Cornwall on 10 August 1896, Charlotte Ann Gertrude Rowe (21 September 1866-19 April 1941) who was known as Annie, but they later separated. Talmage is principally known as a painter of plein-air landscapes and pastorals in a restrained yet sparkling Impressionist manner, and for tutoring Canadian artist Emily Carr (1871-1945), during her studies at St Ives when she lived and worked in his studio, 'The Cabin' on Westcotts Quay, St Ives. Talmage came to London around 1907 and in 1914 was the official First World War artist for Canada in France. Elected an Associate of the Royal Academy on 20 April 1922 and a member on 25 April 1929 and was also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists from October 1902 and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters from 1908. He exhibited at Barbizon House; Chenil Galleries; Cooling Galleries; Fine Art Society; Grosvenor Gallery; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Goupil Gallery; Royal Scottish Academy; Heffer Gallery, Cambridge and elsewhere including at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1923, an oil 'The Banks of the Stour' and also exhibited with the Sole Bay Group. Algernon Mayow Talmage died at Clarks House, Sherfield English, near Romsey, Hampshire on 14 September 1939.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from St Ives, Cornwall
1895 176 Fading Day
from Trecarrel, Redruth, Cornwall
1896 75 Through the gathering Gloom
from Pednolver, St Ives, Cornwall
1899 424 A Cornish Harvest
1901 338 Evening after Rain
         420 The Noonday Sun
         546 The Moorland Pool
1904 790 After Rain
1905 297 The Banks of the Avon
         529 The End of the Shower
1906 250 The Marsh Road
         314 Moonrise in Picardy
         462 The Ford
1907 431 Moonlight in Picardy
from 143 Church Street, Chelsea, Southwest London [Chelsea Arts Club]
1909 462 Picardy Marshes after Rain
1910 24 The Mackerel Shawl
         264 'Mark!! Woodcock forrard!'
         655 The Kingdoms of the Breeze
1911 422 The Chalk Pit
         463 The Lady and the Landscape
1912 482 Green, Silver, and Black
1914 188 Morning in Holland
         502 The Hammock
1915 410 The Bather
         420 The Haven
         432 The Elm Tree
1916 559 On the Dunes
         635 Morning after Rain
1917 246 The Check Shawl, Green and Silver
         283 The Fisher, Black and Silver
from 22 Joubert Mansions, 142 Jubilee Place, Chelsea
1918 144 Morning after Rain
         373 Suffolk Meadows
         599 The Heat of the Day
1919 199 February Moon
         388 Mobile Veterinary Dressing Station, near Bullecourt
         473 March Month
1920 214 October Morning
         483 The Artist and her Models
1921 172 Silver Afternoon, Isle of Wight
         300 The Old Hunter
         344 The Freshness of the Morning
1922 172 A Dedham Landscape
         199 The Incoming Tide
         359 Mrs. E. Trevlyan
1923 75 Midsummer Day, Dedham
         140 Morning after Rain, Dedham Valley
         253 Mrs. Turner, Silver and Blue
         484 Tintagel
         559 The Banks of the Stour, Dedham
1924 26 The Bend of the River
         50 Silver Morning
         159 Wounded Horses leaving the Front, France 1918
         246 In the West Land
         530 The Waning Moon
1925 52 The Bathers' Pool
         97 The By-Road
         219 A Pool in the Sandhills
         501 A Grey Day
         569 J. Lynwood Palmer, Esq. and 'Old Glory'
         618 The Bathers: Pas de Calais
1926 79 The Youth of Pan
         101 The Western Sky
         266 Mrs. Gladys Renton
         478 Morning
         571 Ursula (Mrs. Carrick Hoare)
1927 186 Blue and Silver: Pas de Calais
         222 The Pool between the Woods
         329 A French Harvest
         1145 Wounded Horses leaving the Line: France 1918 - etching
         1149 The Old Favourite - etching
         1180 The River Bank - etching
1928 23 A Road in France
         208 Mares and Foals in Chirk Park
         373 'Captain Fricasse' in Chirk Park
         556 Reflections
         639 Portrait of the Painter
1929 47 A Suffolk Harvest
         70 Suffolk Marshes
         240 A Suffolk Haying
         250 Heat of Day
         294 The Wych Elms
         361 The Coast of France
1930 19 The Young Shepherd
         100 Spring Morning
         157 Morning Glitter: Isle of Wight
         183 Horner de C Mayour, Esq.
         288 The Fold
         514 Reflections
1931 53 The Pool in the Sandhills
         60 Alison, daughter of Ernest Martin, Esq.
         307 The Turn of the Plough
         517 Sons and daughters of Cecil Lindsay, Esq.
         527 Mr. Victor Emmanuel's 'Rival' in Lissue Park, Antrim
         564 Mr. Victor Emmanuel's 'Roulette' in Rockingham Park, Antrim
1932 7 Silver Morning, Aldeburgh Beach
         34 Butley River
         222 Bradd with Lord Howard de Walden's 'Ruby'
         251 Portrait of the Painter
         502 Hazy Morning on the Beach
         506 A Spring Morning
1933 66 The Blue Pool
         71 Mlle. Juanita Diaz of Buenos Aires
         95 The Green Bowl
         98 Roses
         243 November Morning
         377 The Parade of Dogs, Wembley
1934 82 New Forest Ponies
         215 Ernest Dence, Esq. chairman of London C.C.
         245 The Haunt of the Ponies
         266 The Window
         272 Miss Diana Eustace Duckett
         546 Phlox
from 49 Elgin Crescent, West London
1935 91 Sir Herbert Brown, K.B.E., chairman of Croydon Hospital
         130 Ernest Martin, Esq., M.B.
         135 Fred Hoar, Esq., chairman of Woowich Equitable Building Society
         263 Morning after Rain
         280 March Many-weathers
         582 Evening: St Tropez
1936 7 Captain G. Trevor Roller
         86 Flower Piece
         224 L.G.J. Brett, Esq.
         248 The Kingdom of Wings
         375 Dr. J. Vargas Eyre, Ph.D., M.A.
         657 Flower Piece
1937 14 Iken Cliff
         31 Humphrey Dixon, Esq., M.C.
         146 The founding of Australia by Capt. Arthur Phillp, R.N.
         252 Sir Ernest Kemp, J.P.
1938 72 The Black Vase
         85 Roses
         93 The Oast House at Belting Farm
126 The Alde and the Ore
202 The late Alderman Robert Beresford, J.P., C.C., Mayor...
244 Flood Tide on the Alde
1939 49 High Tide on the Alde
         103 Carnations
         106 Cameronian's Derby
         284 Tulips
         345 J.H. Gordon, Esq., G.R.

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Works by This Artist