Lewis Pinhorn Wood
| Lewis Pinhorn Wood | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1848 |
| Died | 7 November 1918 |
| Nationality | British |
| Other names | L. Pinhorn Wood |
| Occupation | landscapist, watercolourist |
Lewis Pinhorn Wood (1848–1918) was a British landscapist and watercolourist, best known for his rural scenes of Sussex and Surrey. In the tradition of the Victorian era, his work depicted idyllic scenes of rural life across the home counties.
Born in Middlesex in 1848, his father was Lewis John Wood (1813–1901), the 19th-century architectural artist and lithographer renowned principally for his specialisation in architectural scenes from across Belgium and Northern France. In 1875 he married Louisa Howard Watson in the church of St Saviour in Hampstead, Middlesex. They had four children; the illustrator and designer Clarence Lawson Wood (1878–1957), Eveline, Esmond and Enid.
In early married life Pinhorn Wood lived and worked at Burnside in the village of Shere, Surrey, before moving to Highgate, London, and latterly to Homefield Road in Chiswick. In later life he lived in Pevensey, Sussex, where he registered as a member of the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1910, and died on 7 November 1918.
As a young man Wood studied at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, and learnt to sketch on Hampstead Heath, near to the family home at 38 Park Road, Haverstock in Hampstead. His work was influenced by his father, who he accompanied on sketching trips around the UK, and on several of his painting tours of Northern Europe. His early work from these trips includes Rue de Hallage, Rouen (1869) and A Tyrolean Scene. He also studied at the West London School of Art, in Bolsover Street when it opened it 1870.
From 1873 to 1884 Wood worked as an art master at University College School in Hampstead, a job allowing him to continue his painting tours of the country, particularly during the summer months.
From the 1870s onward, Wood focussed on rural landscapes, working mainly in watercolour, but occasionally in oil, across Sussex, Surrey and some London Boroughs. His work played into the Victorian appetite for idyllic, sentimental scenes of rural life. He exhibited regularly in London at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Dudley Gallery, and elsewhere.
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