RUSHBURY, Sir Henry George

1889 - 1968

Henry George Rushbury was born at 24 Greenfield Road, Harborne, Birmingham on 28 October 1889, son of George Norbury Rushbury (7 March 1853-1940), a warehouse clerk, and his wife Naomi, née Fennell (11 December 1853-1940), who married at Kings Norton, Worcestershire in 1883. From the age of thirteen, Harry studied on a scholarship under Robert Catterson Smith (1853-1938) at the Birmingham School of Art and then worked as an assistant to Henry Payne (1868-1939) until 1912, when he moved to London, where he shared lodgings with fellow Birmingham student Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978). Rushbury was an official war artist during the First World War and took up etching and drypoint under the influence of Francis Dodd (1874-1949) before studying briefly under Henry Tonks (1852-1937) at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1921. A watercolour painter and etcher and a member of the New English Art Club 1917; the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers 1922 and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 1922 and elected at Associate of the Royal Academy on 21 April 1927, a member on 11 February 1936 and a Senior on 31 December 1964 and was Keeper 22 April 1949-30 June 1964. He exhibited at the Royal Academy; Abbey Gallery; Agnew & Sons Gallery; Beaux Arts Gallery; Barbizon House; Brook Street Art Gallery; Connell & Sons; Colnaghi Galleries; Chenil Galleries; Fine Art Society; Grosvenor Gallery; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Goupil Gallery; Walker Art Gallery; Leicester Galleries; Manchester City Art Gallery; New English Art Club; Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy 1889-1968. He also exhibited at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1923, two dry point pictures 'Walls of Sienna' and 'The Fascisti'. In 1949 elected Keeper of the Royal Academy and Head of the Royal Academy Schools and knighted in 1964. He married at Chelsea in 1914, Florence Harriet née Layzell (10 October 1894-28 December 1981) and their daughter was artist Julia Rushbury (8 October 1930-) the wife of artist Theodore Sanchez de Piña Ramos (1928-2018). In 1939 Henry was living at Lower House Farm, Foxearth, Long Melford, Suffolk. Henry George Rushbury died at 6 St Martin's Lane, Lewes, Sussex on 5 July 1968. He signed his works 'Henry Rushbury'.

Royal Academy Exhibits
other exhibits
from 25 Wellington Square, Chelsea
1925 932 Lindisfarne - dry point
         957 La Rochelle - dry point
         1009 The She Wolf of Sienna - pencil & wash
1926 1007 L'ise de la Cite, Paris - dry point
         1033 Carcere, San Gimignano - dry point
         1092 The Old Ashmolean, Oxford - pencil
from 8 Netherton Grove, Chelsea
1927 1122 Place des Victoires - dry point
         1189 South Front of Christ Church, Oxford - crayon
         1193 Dieppe - crayon & wash
1028 757 Repairing the Corse - watercolour
         841 The Herald of Spring - watercolour
         1209 The Steps of St Peter's - line wash
         1220 St Olave's Tooley Street - pencil & wash
1929 743 Hotels, Marseille - watercolour
         749 On the Quay, Marseille - watercolour
         757 Across the Port, Marseille - watercolour
         1071 Quai des Belges, Marseille - pen & wash
         1083 The Old Port, Marseille - pen & wash
1930 727 Marseille
         739 Piazza Cavour, Genova
         776 Genova
         1104 Piazza del Popolo from the Pincio - pencil & wash
         1116 The Ghetto, Rome - pencil & wash
         1158 Via dei Portaghesi - pen & wash
1931 983 St Paul's
         992 Morning, Marseille
         1004 Cassis
         1163 Rue de la Republique, Marseille - pencil & wash
         1269 Genova - dry point
         1275 Old Port, Marseille - dry point
1932 729 Schiavoni, Venice
         764 San Giacomo, Venice: Evening
         1070 The Royal Hospital, Chelsea - pencil & wash
         1130 Cannoaregio, Venice - dry point
         1142 Isola di S. Pietro, Venice - dry point
from Lower House, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk
1933 746 Piazza da Spagna, Rome
         945 York Minster
         987 Custom House, London
         1300 Debtor’s Prison, York
1934 732 Malines
         1238 City of Durham
1935 1038 King’s Parade, Cambridge
         1050 Ely Cathedral
         1198 Peas Hill, Cambridge
         1210 Excavations: Bank of England
         1250 Rebuilding: Bank of England
         1296 Custom House, Kings Lynn
from Chelsea Arts Club, Church Street, Southwest London
1936 787 A Street in Gerona
         819 Market Place, Cambridge
         833 St Servan
         992 Gerona
         1284 Walls of Gerona - drypoint
from 8 Netherton Grove, Chelsea
1937 895 Gerona - watercolour
         1113 A Roman Street - pencil & wash
         1155 Verona - pencil & wash
         1236 Five Bridges - pen & wash
1939 706 Hyde Park Corner
         714 The Institute of Civil Engineers
         811 Constitution Hill, London
         826 Grimsby Docks
         894 Debtor's Prison, York
         970 From a Balcony, Hyde Park Corner
1940 757 Trafalgar Square
         763 Richmond Market Place, Yorkshire
         1171 The City Walls, York
1941 739 St Peter’s, Rome
1942 380 Horse Guards Parade
         446 The Guildhall, York
         456 Paris
         500 York Minster from Goodramgate
         520 St Paul’s from Paternoster Row
1943 516 Middleham Castle, Yorkshire
         520 St Helen’s Square, York
         653 The Mansion House, York
         674 Leyburn, Yorkshire
         841 St Paul’s, 1943
         887 St Paul’s from Cannon Street
1944 789 The Appian Way
         824 A Yorkshire Glass Works 1944
         923 Shipbuilding I
         927 Shipbuilding II
         948 The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
         985 St Mary le Bow, 1944
         1067 Bow Church from Bread Street
1945 837 Conisborough Castle
         846 The Wear at Durham
         963 Cumberland Landscape
         986 Cathedral and Castle, Durham
         991 Typhoon, evening
         1000 Crummock Water, Cumberland
         1171 St Martin in the Fields

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Works by This Artist