Henry Herbert La Thangue

Henry Herbert La Thangue RA (19 January 1859 – 21 December 1929) was an English realist rural landscape painter associated with the Newlyn School.

Here La Thangue came under the influence of the Barbizon school of open-air landscape painters, such as Bastien-Lepage and Dagnan-Bouveret, despite the fact that his teacher was strongly critical of the movement.

Between 1881 and 1882 La Thangue spent some time painting on the coast of Brittany (one of his works from this period is The Boat-builder's Yard), then in Donzère in the Rhone valley (1883).

[3] He became involved in a failed attempt to reform the Royal Academy,[4] helping to found the rival New English Art Club (NEAC) and exhibiting his work there.

La Thangue eventually made his base at Haylands in Graffham, Sussex, though he also spent much time painting in Provence in France (after 1901), Liguria in Italy (1903–11) and the Balearic Islands.