Haydn Reynolds Mackey Impressionist Style Seascape Oil Painting

Item Details

Haydn Reynolds Mackey (English, 1883-1979)
Untitled (seascape)
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to the lower right
Metal name plate to the frame

Haydn Reynolds Mackey was a a British painter and illustrator best known for his depictions of World War I and his later commercial art. Mackey attended the Slade School of Art in London and was recruited as an Official War Artist stationed with the Royal Army Medical Corps on the Western Front. His depictions of the mundane daily activities intermixed with the brutal hardships faced by soldiers and military service people helped to ground in reality and humanize a war of unprecedented scale and violence. After the war, Haydn Mackey established himself as a commercial artist and illustrator, even devising his own method of color printing utilizing linoleum cuts and oil paints, before being hired as a teacher at the Walthamstow School of Art. Over his lifetime, Mackey’s work was exhibited across Great Britain and continental Europe, earning him numerous international awards. Today, his artwork belongs to public and private collections around the world, including the Royal Academy of Arts and the Imperial War Museum in London.

Condition

- accretions, discolorations, abrasions to the ground; nicks, accretions to the frame.

Dimensions

- measurement of the frame; visible image measures 29.5"W x 19.5"H.

Item #

ITMG446541