Lowes Dalbiac Luard
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Lowes Dalbiac Luard | |
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| Born | 1872 |
| Died | 1944 London |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Slade School of Fine Art |
| Known for | Portrait painting |
Lowes Dalbiac Luard (27 August 1872 – 1944) was a British painter.
Early life
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Luard was born in Calcutta, the son of Col. Charles Henry Luard of the Royal Engineers and grandson of Lt.-Col. John Luard. Educated in England, and having won a place at the University of Oxford to study mathematics at Balliol, he decided instead to study art, and in 1892 enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where his contemporaries included Augustus John and Ambrose McEvoy. He left the Slade in 1897 and then studied in Paris under Lucien Simon and Rene Menard.
In 1901 he married Louisa Margaret Blackwell, and their daughter Veronica Mary (who later married Sir Maurice Lyell, a High Court Judge) was born the following year.[1] In 1905 the family settled in Paris in 1905 where, except for the war years, Luard continued to live for almost 30 years.[2] In Paris he became well known for his paintings and drawings of large working horses. Two of his most notable paintings, Timberhauling on the Seine (1914) and Percherons at Water (1911), are from this period.
World War I
[edit]Lowes Luard enlisted in the British Army Service Corps in 1914, and served throughout the First World War, being awarded both the DSO, the Croix de Guerre and was mentioned in despatches five times. Even whilst serving in the army Luard continued to draw, usually charcoal studies of horses pulling heavy guns or other loads through mud. [3] In 1922, the Société des Artistes Rouennais, in Rouen, exhibited eight paintings and pastels by Luard.
Later life
[edit]After the war Luard's interests broadened to include landscapes and seascapes. He moved to London in 1934 and became a regular visitor to the racecourse and stables at Newmarket, where he would often paint scenes of thoroughbred racehorses training on the gallops.[3] In 1936 Faber and Faber published his book The Horse: Its Action and Anatomy, the first study of the skeleton, muscles and physiognomy of the horse since George Stubbs' treatise, The Anatomy of the Horse. During World War II, Lowes Luard was contracted to provide a number of works for the War Artists' Advisory Committee.[4][5] He died in London in 1944.
Further reading
[edit]Oliver Beckett, Horses and Movement: Drawings and Paintings by Lowes Dalbiac Luard (London: J. A. Allen, 1988)
References
[edit]- ^ Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 14th ed. (London 1925), pp. 1135−1137.
- ^ Octavia Pollock (28 July 2009). "Exhibition Review: Lowes Dalbiac Luard at the Vestey Gallery". Country Life. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ^ a b Charles Lane (31 August 2009). "'A Passon for Movement'". Sporting Art Notes and Queries. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ^ Brain Foss (2007). War paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939–1945. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10890-3.
- ^ Imperial War Museum. "War artists archive, Lowes Dalbiac Luard". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
External links
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- 3 artworks by or after Lowes Dalbiac Luard at the Art UK site
- Lowes Dalbiac Luard at Library of Congress, with 10 library catalogue records (including 3 "from old catalog")
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- 1872 births
- 1944 deaths
- Luard family
- Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
- English male painters
- 19th-century English painters
- 20th-century English painters
- 19th-century English male artists
- 20th-century English male artists
- British draughtsmen
- British war artists
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Royal Army Service Corps officers
- Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
- British recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
- British people in colonial India