Yeend King

Henry John Yeend King was an important Victorian genre and landscape artist who lived in London most of his life. He studied painting under Victorian artist William Bromley, RBA, and then went to Paris to study under Leon Bonnat (1833 - 1922) and Ferdinand Cormond (1854 - 1924). He travelled extensively in England and France to paint rural views, specializing in scenes of rustic genre and the countryside - almost never showing the heavily industrialized cities. His paintings depict pretty farm girls (often using his own daughter as a model) at work in the fields or on the farm - much like the French Realist artist Julien Dupré; or women at rest in tranquil landscapes or cottage gardens.