Louis haghe biography

Biography.
Louis Haghe (17 March 1806 – 9 March 1885) was a lithographer and watercolourist from the Netherlands and then the United Kingdom.
Biography: Lithographer and watercolourist; born in Tournai, Belgium and was a pupil of Jan de Jonghe (q.v.) and Chevalier de la Barrière from whom he.

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Louis Haghe

Biography

Louis Haghe was born in Belgium and trained there as a watercolour painter and lithographer. He came to London in 1823 and entered into partnership with the publisher William Day, making superior quality lithographic illustrations for which the firm Day & Haghe became famous. A founding member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, Haghe exhibited with the organisation from 1835 and served as president from 1873 to 1884.

Given Haghe’s predilection for historical genre scenes and architectural interiors that were often set in Belgium, it is reasonable to assume that the Art Gallery of NSW’s watercolour The miseries of war illustrates a fictive event woven around the backdrop of almost continual warfare in the Spanish-ruled Southern Netherlands during the turbulent 17th century, when Flemish towns were frequently besieged by foreign armies fighting the Spanish.

When the work was exhibited in 1850 at the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, it was accompanied by a quote chosen by the painter from Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 2:

O War, tho

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The Belgium-born Louis Haghe is the un-sung hero of the art works here presented. In fact, the site should really be called Louis Haghe lithographs from sketches and paintings by David Roberts, for - in most cases - every line and nuance in the prints are the work of this remarkable man (although it is now known that Haghe employed assistants, including his brother, their work is minimal).

Relatively little is known of his life and no full biography has ever been written. Haghe was born in Tournai on 17 March,1806. Both his father and grandfather were architects and young Louis was encouraged to draw before he could write. At the age of ten he began a five-year curriculum at the college at Tournai in addition to receiving instruction in watercolour by the Chevalier de la Barrière, a French exile then living in town. Fortuitously for Haghe, lithography was emerging throughout Europe as the première means of publishing art reproductions. In fact, he was made assistant to the very first lithographic press in Tournai, founded

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Louis Haghe

Belgian lithographer, watercolourist

Louis Haghe (17 March 1806 – 9 March 1885) was a lithographer and watercolourist from the Netherlands and then the United Kingdom.

His father and grandfather had practised as architects. Training in his teens in watercolour painting, he found work in the relatively new art of lithography when the first press was set up in Tournai. He visited England to find work, and settled there permanently in 1823.

Together with William Day (1797–1845), around 1830 he formed the partnership Day & Haghe, which became the most famous early Victorian firm of lithographic printing in London.

Day and Haghe created and printed lithographs dealing with a wide range of subjects, such as hunting scenes, architecture, topographical views and genre depictions. They pioneered the new techniques for chromolithography as well as hand-tinted lithographs. After William's death in 1845, the firm became known as 'Day & Son'.^[1] They were pioneers in developing the medium of the colour lithograph.

In 1838, Day and Haghe were appointe