Louis Haghe

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Louis Haghe (March 17, 1806, Tournai, Belgium - March 9, 1885, Surrey) was a lithographer and watercolour artist.

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 printed lithographs dealing with a wide range of subjects, such as hunting scenes, topographical views and genre depictions.

In 1838, Day and Haghe were appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen'. After William's death in 1845, the firm became known as 'Day & Son'. They were pioneers in developing the medium of the lithograph printed in colours.

From the 1850's Haghe concentrated more on his watercolours, and became president of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours from 1873 to 1884.

Haghe's artistic works were achieved in spite of a deformity in his right hand since birth.

References

*Michael Twyman, "Haghe, Louis (1806–1885)", "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11866 accessed 16 Nov 2007]

External links

* [http://www.artoftheprint.com/catalogue.html Catalogue]
* [http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-2443 "A new map of Texas"]
*worldcat id|lccn-n85-814315