Wynford Dewhurst Quotes

1864–1941 England

Wynford Dewhurst, R.B.A. (26 January 1864 – 9 July 1941) was an English Impressionist painter and important writer on art. He spent considerable time in France and his work was profoundly influenced by Claude Monet.

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The world of art was less fortunate. Many of the younger men barely lived through the first flush of youth. Destroying Death is the worst enemy to the arts.

Impressionist Painting: its genesis and development (1904)

Impressionism owes its birth to Constable ; and its ultimate glory, the works of Claude Monet, is profoundly inspired by the genius of Turner.

Impressionist Painting: its genesis and development (1904)

Since then I have endeavoured, by precept and by example, to preach the doctrine of Impressionism, particularly in England, where it is so little known and appreciated.

Impressionist Painting: its genesis and development (1904)

Those Englishmen who are taunted with following the methods of the French Impressionists, sneered at for imitating a foreign style, are in reality but practising their own, for the French artists simply developed a style which was British in its conception.

Douglas Cooper (1954)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wynford Dewhurst (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.