Painting and Sculpture

Frederick William Hayes

Frederick William Hayes ( 13 July 1848, Freshfield, Merseyside - 7 September 1918, Hampstead, London) was an English landscape painter, illustrator, playwright, and novelist. By 1922, when he had a memorial exhibition (in effect) at Walker's Galleries in London, his paintings were part of the collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum among other institutions, after a round of donations by his widow. Bangor University has a large number, nearly all of North Welsh views, donated by the Hayes family in 1943. These works mostly show details of a landscape such as rocks, a tree or a boat on a beach, without figures or animals. The tidal island of Ynys Llanddwyn, off Anglesey, is a particular favourite. As well as the fresh and direct style of these works, he produced illustrations for reproduction as prints or publications in more popular styles, not being afraid of sentimentality in subjects such as stags in misty glades. His novel The Great Revolution of 1905; or, The Story of the Phalanx, With an Introductory Account of Civilization in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1893) is considered an example of the type of literary utopianism that was flourishing during the late 19th century.

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• ▸Johan Ludwig Lund
• ▸Albert Lebourg
• ▸Charles Sims (painter)

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