Robert Bevan

An English artist and innovator, animal painter and landscape painter, draftsman and master of lithography.

Robert was born into the large Quaker family of rich banker Richard Alexander Bevan and Laura Maria Polhill, who lived in East Sussex (the town of Hove near Brighton).

He was one of the most active members of several progressive associations of artists in Britain – Kemden Town group, renamed the London Group (the London Group), the association “Fitzroy-Street.” He founded the Cumberland Market group and was elected a member of the New English Art Club (NEAC).

The first large memorial exhibition of Robert Bevan was held in 1926, then several more times. Children, who received an inheritance in equal parts, presented part of the parents’ works to the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford, Great Britain.

Key ideas:

– In the preface to the retrospective exhibition of R. Bevan, art critic Philip Hendi rightly noted that this is “the first Englishman in the 20th century who used the pure color.” In addition, he used the elements of Cloisonnism, strictly delineating the details in the paintings, which makes them look clear and decorative.

– By practicing Synthetism, the master tried to achieve harmony between the appearance of the depicted person, the expression of his own feelings and to give the aesthetics of form, line, color to details.

– The artist preferred to paint in the summer, and those were primarily landscapes, images of animals (mostly horses). In the legacy of Robert Bevan, there are many portraits and self-portraits, as well as many drawings and lithographs. Art historians highly appreciate the London street scenes, created by the artist most often on the impressions from ​​the forest of St. John and Park Belsayz.