About Henry Keyworth Raine
Lived 1872 – 1934 (aged 61–62). Henry Keyworth Raine was a British painter.
Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1934) was a British portraitist.
Life Born in York, he was the son of the Reverend James Raine and Ann Jane Keyworth; and the great nephew of William Powell Frith,
In 1895, according to a newspaper report in the York Herald, Raine was commissioned to paint the portrait of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, the sixth child of Queen Victoria, at Kensington Palace. Raine, on his own account, began painting portraits by candlelight in 1897. In 1901, a portrait of Francis Foljambe by Raine, and a self-portrait, were hanging at Osberton Hall.
Raine was described in newspapers as "The cellar artist". Stories about his method of painting in the dark were printed. The techniques he employed in his underground studio off Hanover Square, Westminster were stated to be an effort to recreate the style and results of artists he admired, such as Titian, Rembrandt and Velazquez. Painting by candlelight, using only three colours on his palette and using special black canvas, Raine was able to complete a portrait in five hours, meaning the sitter would only need to visit his studio on one occasion. A newspaper report of 1904 stated that he never exhibited, and had painted portraits of Henry Edwyn King-Tenison, 9th Earl of Kingston and Charles Innes-Ker.
York Art Gallery contains examples of his work.
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Who was Henry Keyworth Raine?
English portrait painter (1872–1934)
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Henry Keyworth Raine was born in 1872 in York.
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Henry Keyworth Raine died in 1934.
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Henry Keyworth Raine was a painter.
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