This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Dieppe. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.
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William Lee-Hankey (1869–1952) was a British painter and book illustrator. He specialised in landscapes, character studies and portraits of pastoral life, particularly in studies of mothers with young children.
He was born in Chester and worked as a designer after leaving school. He studied art in the evenings at the Chester School of Art (now the Department of Art and Design at University of Chester), then at the Royal College of Art. Later in Paris he became influenced by the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage, who also favoured rustic scenes depicted in a realistic but sentimental style.
He stayed in France in the early 1900s, painting many of his works in Brittany and Normandy, where he depicted a peasant lifestyle which was already disappearing in England. From 1904 until well after World War I he maintained a studio at the Etaples art colony.
In 1896, Hankey married fellow artist Mabel Emily Hobson (thereafter commonly known as Mabel Lee-Hankey or Mabel Emily Hankey). Their marriage lasted 21 years. Lee-Hankey then married Edith Mary Garner.
Click here to read Lee-Hankey’s full bio on Wikipedia.
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TODAY: Dieppe is still an important place for the fishing trade. The fishing boat fleet located in Dieppe is quite large.
TODAY: The fish market is still held daily in the Pollet district (fishermen district) on the Quai Trudaine.
TODAY: The arches of the buildings, particularly alongside the seafront, are still there.
TODAY: Market Day was, and still is, Saturday morning. The present-day market spreads around many streets in the city centre, with the centre point being the Place National next to the Saint-Jacques church (see following paintings).
Berneval-le-Grand
The village of Berneval-le-Grand (population: 1,400) lies to the North-East of Dieppe. The village has merged in 2016 with neighbouring villages to form the town of Petit-Caux.
William Hankey painted in several places in France. Here are the places he painted in (links “⇠” to his works will appear below when published):
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comte (Burgundy)
- Brittany
- Concarneau
- Dinan
- Douarnenez
- Morlaix
- Hauts-de-France
- Abbeville
- Boulogne
- Etaples
- samer
- Normandy
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- La Rochelle
- Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
- Avignon
- Cannes
- Frejus
- Grasse
- Menton
- Saint-Tropez
- Saint-Raphael
Dieppe in Normandy was a popular place for artists to come and apply their art. Here is a list, non exhaustive, of the artists that painted in Dieppe.
A link (“⇠”) to the artist’s works will appear when published (a “*” indicates that the artist did not work directly in Dieppe, instead worked in nearby villages):
- 🇫🇷 Blanche, Jacques-Emile ⇠
- 🇺🇸 Boggs, Frank Myers ⇠
- 🇷🇺 Bogolyubov, Alexey (Alexei) ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Bonington, Richard Parkes ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Boudan, Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Boudin, Eugene-Louis ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Boys, Thomas Shotter ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Braque, Georges ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Bruelle, Gaston ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Burel, Henry E. ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Burgess Jr, John ⇠
- 🇺🇸 Butler, Theodore Earl ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Callow, William ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cameron, David Young ⇠
- 🇺🇸 Chapman, Conrad Wise ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Ciceri, Eugene ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Conder, Charles ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cooke, Edward William ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cotman, John Sell ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Courbet, Gustave ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cox Sr, David ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Cyr, Georges Albert ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cundall, Charles ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Daubigny, Charles-Francois ⇠
- 🇦🇺 Davies, David ⇠
- 🇫🇷 de Jolimont, Theodore Basset ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Dibdin, Thomas Colman ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Dommersen, William ⇠
- 🇳🇱 Doomer, Lambert ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Dubourg, Louis-Alexandre ⇠
- 🇮🇪 Dunlop, Ronald Ossory ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Fergusson, John Duncan ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Friesz, Othon ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Garneray, Ambroise Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Gauguin, Paul ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Goeneutte, Norbert ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Gonzales, Eva ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Gosse, Sylvia ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Guerard, Henri ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Guiaud, Jacques ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Guillaumin, Armand ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Haquette, Georges Jean-Marie ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Hardy, Thomas Bush ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Hervier, Louis Adolphe ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Hoguet, Charles ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Huet, Paul ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Isabey, Eugene ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Jamieson, Alexander ⇠
- 🇳🇱 Jongkind, Johan Barthold ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Kay, James ⇠
- 🇷🇺 Korovin, Konstantin ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Kuwasseg, Charles Euphrasie ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Le Secq, Henri ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Lebourg, Albert ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Lee-Hankey, William ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Lemaitre, Leon-Jules ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Letellier, Emile-Andre ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Loir, Luigi ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Loiseau, Gustave ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Luce, Maximilien ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Maclet, Elisee ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Madelain, Gustave ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Manzana-Pissarro, Georges Henri ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Marquet, Albert ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Mathon, Emile Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Maze, Paul ⇠
- 🇬🇧 McEvoy, Ambrose ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Michallon, Achille Etna ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Monet, Claude ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Montague, Alfred ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Moret, Henry ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Mozin, Charles Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Noel, Jules Achille ⇠
- 🇺🇸 Norton, William Edward ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Pissarro, Camille ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Pissarro, Lucien * ⇠
- 🇺🇸 Prendergast, Maurice ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Prout, Samuel ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Renoir, Pierre-Auguste ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Roberts, David ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Sickert, Walter Richard ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Smith, Matthew Arnold Bracy ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Smallwood, William Frome * ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Stanfield, Clarkson Frederick ⇠
- 🇳🇴 Thaulow, Fritz ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Thornley, Georges William ⇠
- 🇧🇪 Timmermans, Louis-Etienne ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Turner, William ⇠
- 🇨🇭 Vallotton, Felix ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Vernet, Claude-Joseph ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Vollon, Antoine ⇠
- 🇩🇪 Weber, Theodore Alexander ⇠
- 🇺🇸 Whistler, James McNeill ⇠
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