Henry Detmold

Henry Edward Detmold (4 October 1854, in Surbiton, Kingston upon Thames – 1924, in Paris), born into an affluent merchant family of German origin, was an English painter and illustrator, specialising in landscape, figure and marine painting, and a founder member of the Newlyn School.

[1][2] He studied at Düsseldorf, Brussels, Munich and in Paris under Carolus Duran.

He played in the Newlyn cricket team in matches against St Ives, and in the Artists of West Cornwall XI against Penzance in 1888.

The scenes he painted were of places he visited in England, France, Cairo and North Africa.

[4] By 1890, he was living in London, married to a Miss Julia Lane who had been born in 1863 in Metz, Moselle in France.