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Ralph Hedley, British artist, was known for his paintings of life in Northern England, wood carving and illustrations.

He was born in North Yorkshire in the town of Richmond. He was born in 1848 and lived to be 65.

He was well known for: Art Wood carving and Illustration

Biography

He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, and had more than fifty of his paintings displayed at the Royal Academy between 1879 and 1904. He became president of the Bewick Club and was Vice-President of the South Shields Art Club

Today, Hedleys paintings are appreciated for the record they provide of everyday life in Tynesidein the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Even at the time of Hedleys death in June 1913, the Newcastle Daily Chronicle recognised the value of his work, arguing that What Burns did for the peasantry of Scotland with his pen, Ralph Hedley with his brush and palette had done for the Northumberland miner and labouring man..

A number of Hedleys works, including Cat in a Cottage Window, Last in Market and Going Home are known throughout the world, many of them repro

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Artists Biography

1851 - 1913
Ralph Hedley was a Newcastle genre painter who worked in both oils and watercolours. He was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1851 and studied at the Newcastle School of Art. Later, he became the President of the Berwick Club and Northumbrian Art Institute, as well as a Member of the Society of British Artists.

The subjects of his paintings are usually scenes of the working lives of ordinary people, from labourers and sailors through to veterans, in his native North East, beautifully observed and well executed.

Hedley exhibited at the Society of British Artists as well as the Royal Academy from 1879. His works can be seen in the Sunderland and in the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.

Works by this artist…

  • News Boy
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Biography

Ralph Hadley R.B.A. (1848-1913), painter, illustrator and woodcarver, is generally thought of as a Northumbrian artist. In fact, his parents Richard and Ann were living at Gilling West, on the outskirts of Richmond, North Yorkshire, when he was born. But they moved to Newcastle about two years later, and it was here that the boy grew up and spent the rest of his life. Richard Hedley himself was a carpenter and joiner, so, when the time came, it was natural for him to apprentice his son to a wood-carver. Less usual was the youth's interest in art and design, which he studied in the evenings at the government school in Newcastle, where he took classes at the Life School under William Bell Scott.

In 1869 or 70, the enterprising young man set up a firm for wood-carving and architectural sculpture with fellow apprentice James Wishart. When Wishart died not long afterwards, Hedley continued on his own account, and the workshop flourished. He achieved "considerable distinction" as a wood-carver, doing "a quantity of decorative work in churches, notably the screen in the Cathe

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