Victory of Faith
by Saint George Hare
Title
Victory of Faith
Artist
Saint George Hare
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Creations
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Victory of Faith by Saint George Hare
About this image:
"Victory of Faith" represents two converts to Christianity - a Caucasian and Ethiopian, mistress and maid - asleep on their dungeon bed of straw, and is masterful in design, whilst contrast is effected by opposites without any resort to glaring or overpowering leading lights." ”
—1893 review of the Chicago's World's Fair printed in the Otago Witness
About this image:
"Two Christian maidens, nude, one fair the other a negress, lying asleep on some straw on the pavement before a lion's cage, through the bars of which the animals are glaring at the figures" ”
—Academy Notes from the Royal Academy of Arts, 1889
About Saint George Hare
He was the son of George Frederick Hare, a dentist from Ipswich, and his wife, Ella, from County Wexford. He was formally educated in art in Limerick School of Art, where he spent three years under the tutalage of Nicholas Brophy. In 1875, he received a scholarship and moved to London to study for seven years at the National Art Training School, South Kensington. He won a gold medal for his history painting "Death of William the Conqueror," which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886. He supplemented his income from painting with teaching painting.
In 1891, he was a founding member of the Chelsea Arts Club. He was an elected member of both the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Sir Hugh Lane included his work in the London Guildhall exhibition of Irish painters in 1906 and his work was also exhibited regularly at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool and the Manchester City Art Gallery.
He was sponsored by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Baronet and produced several portraits of the Hoare family. His most notable works are Death of William the Conqueror (1886), Victory of Faith (1891), Yesterdays (1894), The Gilded Cage (1908).
Saint George Hare died in London in January 1933.
A large collection of his paintings are held by the National Trust.
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