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George Percy Jacomb-Hood

4/5 ( ratings)
Born
July 05 1857
Died
1010 12 19291929
George Percy Jacomb-Hood MVO was a painter, etcher and illustrator. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and Society of Portrait Painters.

Jacomb-Hood was born on 6 July 1857 at Redhill in Surrey, the fourth of nine children of Robert Jacomb-Hood and Jane Stothard Littlewood . His grandfather, a yeoman farmer in Essex was born Robert Jacomb , but was a cousin of William Hood, the last male member of his family, who left his estate at Bardon, Leicestershire to him on condition that he took the additional surname of Hood, the estate having been in the Hood family since the 1620s. His father was Chief Engineer on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1846-1860.

Jacomb-Hood was educated at Tonbridge School and the Slade School of Fine Art as well as studying while touring abroad in Paris and Madrid. He was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, the Savile Club, was Honorary Treasurer of the Chelsea Arts Club, member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

Jacomb-Hood regularly produced illustrations for the The Graphic who gave him a number of overseas assignments. In 1896 the magazine sent him to Greece and to Delhi in 1902. He accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales on their 1905 tour of India and was a member of George V's personal staff on his 1911 tour of India.

He wrote an autobiography in 1925, entitled With Brush and Pencil.

He died on 11 December 1929 at Alassio in Northern Italy.

George Percy Jacomb-Hood

4/5 ( ratings)
Born
July 05 1857
Died
1010 12 19291929
George Percy Jacomb-Hood MVO was a painter, etcher and illustrator. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and Society of Portrait Painters.

Jacomb-Hood was born on 6 July 1857 at Redhill in Surrey, the fourth of nine children of Robert Jacomb-Hood and Jane Stothard Littlewood . His grandfather, a yeoman farmer in Essex was born Robert Jacomb , but was a cousin of William Hood, the last male member of his family, who left his estate at Bardon, Leicestershire to him on condition that he took the additional surname of Hood, the estate having been in the Hood family since the 1620s. His father was Chief Engineer on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1846-1860.

Jacomb-Hood was educated at Tonbridge School and the Slade School of Fine Art as well as studying while touring abroad in Paris and Madrid. He was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, the Savile Club, was Honorary Treasurer of the Chelsea Arts Club, member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

Jacomb-Hood regularly produced illustrations for the The Graphic who gave him a number of overseas assignments. In 1896 the magazine sent him to Greece and to Delhi in 1902. He accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales on their 1905 tour of India and was a member of George V's personal staff on his 1911 tour of India.

He wrote an autobiography in 1925, entitled With Brush and Pencil.

He died on 11 December 1929 at Alassio in Northern Italy.

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