LOUIS WELDEN HAWKINS (1849-1910) Biography
POST-IMPRESSIONIST Biography

Description / Expertise

Louis Welden Hawkins was born in Germany of English parents. He moved to Paris at a young age where he lived until his death in 1910. He exhibited two important works By the Wayside and Keston Common at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1880 and 1881. In later years his style changed. He moved away from the traditional realism derived from the teachings of Jules Bastien-Lepage, as seen in A Picardy Landscape, to painting the nude and female figures in the symbolist style.