Clavering Church
Clausen was elected a full Royal Academician in 1908. This conventional landscape, without the artist's usual complement of country folk, probably dates from the following year. Clavering is a village in Essex, not far from the artist's old home at Widdington.
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Details
Collection
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Item Number
NMW A 195
Creation/Production
Clausen was born in London to George Clausen Senior, a decorative painter of Danish descent. He attended the Royal College of Art and South Kensington art schools, then the Académie Julian in Paris. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and was elected Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy in 1904. He was knighted in 1927.
Role: Artist
Acquisition
Bequest, 27/2/1941
Techniques
Oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
Art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
Oil
Canvas
Location
In store