传记

出生在1824年3月13日哀鸿,汉普郡乔治·埃尔加希克斯是一个富有的第二个儿子法官。他的父母鼓励希克斯成为一名医生,所以希克斯学医大学学院从1840年到1842年。然而,三年之后的“ardous和讨厌的研究”希克斯决定他想成为一名艺术家。由于这种情况下,希克斯开始训练比大多数的艺术家在以后的生活中。1843年,希克斯参加了Sass的奥斯卡^[2]到1844年已经进入了皇家学院.

1847年希克斯和玛丽亚·哈里斯和六个他们的八个孩子出生后的七年。他没有取得很大的成功作为一个艺术家在这一时期,后来把他的艺术在这个时候称为“小,并不重要。“他把这归咎于他几乎没有时间学习艺术或者与其他艺术家,由于忙碌的家庭生活。

1859年,希克斯画他的第一个大的风俗画,股息天英国央行(Bank of England)(1859年在皇家美术学院展出),成功后弗里斯的画姨侄金沙和Derby天在皇家学院。这是一个典型的风俗画,显示的场景英格兰银行和广泛的社会阶层。他画了几大现代生活绘画在接下来的几年里被批评者通常很差。这些包括普通邮局。一分钟到6(1860),粗话鱼市场(1861)和改变房屋(1862)。希克斯的画作的主题通常是没有其他艺术家尝试,等邮政总局和粗话鱼市场。希克斯是为数不多的艺术家弗里斯的模拟显示持久的兴趣的风格和弗里斯通常被认为是最主要的模仿者。

到1860年代末,风俗画的受欢迎程度已经下降,希克斯开始关注历史学科,导致社会肖像画在1870年代。

1884年,希克斯在1881年再婚后,玛丽亚的死亡。他在1890年代退休了,死前一个月的声明第一次世界大战在1914年。

Biography

Born on 13 March 1824 in Lymington, Hampshire, George Elgar Hicks was the second son of a wealthy magistrate. His parents encouraged Hicks to become a doctor and so Hicks studied medicine at University College from 1840 to 1842. However, after three years' "ardous and disagreeable study" Hicks decided he wanted to be an artist. Due to these circumstances, Hicks began training considerably later in life than most artists of the time. In 1843, Hicks attended Sass's Academy  and by 1844 had entered the Royal Academy Schools.

In 1847 Hicks married Maria Hariss and six of their eight children were born in the seven years following. He did not achieve much success as an artist during this period and later referred to his art at this time as "small and unimportant." He blamed this on the fact he had little time to study art or interact with other artists, due to a busy family life.

In 1859, Hicks painted his first large genre painting, Dividend Day at the Bank of England (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1859) – following the success of Frith's paintings Ramsgate Sands and The Derby Day at the Royal Academy. It was a typical genre painting, showing a scene from theBank of England and featuring a broad range of social classes. He painted several more large modern-life paintings in the following years which were generally poorly reviewed by critics. These include The General Post Office. One minute to 6(1860), Billingsgate Fish Market (1861) and Changing Homes (1862). Hicks' paintings were often of subjects that no other artists attempted, such as the General Post Office and Billingsgate Fish Market. Hicks was one of the few artists that showed lasting interest in the emulation of Frith's style and is generally considered Frith's principal imitator.

By the late 1860s, the popularity of genre painting had declined and Hicks began to focus on historical subjects, leading to society portraiture in the 1870s.

In 1884, Hicks remarried following the death of Maria in 1881. He retired in the 1890s and died a month before the declaration of World War I in 1914.