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John Arthur Elsey

Born: Born in 1860 - Died: Died in1952..

Arthur John Elsley was born on November 20, 1860 in London, England. He was one of six children born to John Elsley and Emily. His father was a coachman, and an amateur artist. The earliest surviving drawing of Arthur Elsley was made when he was eleven years old. It was a pencil sketch of a cairn terrier named Vic. Other works included pencil sketches of a chimpanzee, a giraffe, and an arctic wolf, which he made when he visited the Zoological Gardens in Regents Park in 1874. By the time he was fourteen years old, Elsley enrolled in South Kensington School of Art which later became the Royal College of Art. It was also around that time that he contracted measles, which caused permanent damage to his eyesight. An avid cyclist, Elsley used to take off to the countryside on his bicycle to get inspiration for his compositions. His first Royal Academy exhibit in 1878 entitled A Portrait of an Old Pony was the only one his father would see, as he died one month later. Elsley continued to study at the Academy Schools until 1881-1882. He then began to earn his living from portrait commissions of children, horses, and dogs. During that time, he exhibited mostly domestic equestrian paintings. In addition, he painted numerous family and canine portraits for the Benett-Stanford family, who lived at Preston Manor. Manton who shared his studio with Elsley, introduced Elsley to Frederick Morgan (1847-1927), the popular genre painter who specialized in children scenes. When Manton left the studio in 1889, Elsley moved into Morgan’s studio, which turned out to be mutually beneficial. Morgan was already an established artist, but could not paint animals, and had collaborated in the past with a specialist in canine portraits, a role that would now be taken over by Elsley. The success which Elsley began to enjoy enabled him to have the financial means to marry his second cousin Emily Fusedale on 11 November, 1893. She was ten years his junior, and had modeled for him for ten years. They would have one child, Marjorie who was born in 1903, and who would become the model for many of his successful paintings. After his marriage, Elsley moved to his own studio, but “the interplay of ideas and compositions with the use of the same models,” showed a continued cooperation with Morgan. In 1894, when the well known artist Charles Burton Barber (1845-1894) died, Elsley succeeded him as the foremost exponent of paintings depicting children and pets. However at the turn of the century, Elsley and Morgan became permanently estranged when Morgan accused him of stealing one of his ideas. The First World War affected Elsley’s productivity. During that period, he worked part-time at a munitions factory, where he “filed the jigs used to test gun-sights in the making. As the work put additional strain on his eyes, he only painted four works from 1915 to 1917. In the years that followed, he continued to paint mostly for pleasure and exhibited some of his works until 1927. However, his eyesight continued to fail, and by 1931 it became so poor that he confined his activities to woodwork, metalwork and gardening. Arthur John Elsley died at his home on 19 February 1952, at the age of 91. Arthur John Elsley was one of the most popular English artists who depicted childhood scenes in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. His works were so popular during his lifetime, that many of his paintings were reproduced as prints, and were often used in calendars, advertisements, books and magazines.

A Sample of some John Arthur Elsey Paintings

Hide and Seek.

Picking Apples.

The New Dress.

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