Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
Generalife, Granada
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Seascape
Venetian Street Scene
Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
Capri
A Cornfield at Sunset
Landscape with Industrial Buildings by a River
Walls of a North African City
A Gondola Passing Under a Bridge in Venice
Florence
Gondolas Before a Palace on the Grand Canal in Venice
Venetian Capriccio with a Campanile
Mountain Landscape
The Salute and the Palazzo Ducale from the Bacino di San Marco
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (born Hercules Brabazon Sharpe; 27 November 1821 – 14 May 1906) was an English artist, accomplished in Turner manner watercolours.
Landscape with Industrial Buildings by a River, ca. 1890.
A coastal scene, believed to be Mont Saint-Michel
Brabazon was the younger son of Hercules Sharpe and his wife, Anne Mary, the daughter of Sir Anthony Brabazon, 1st Bt. Initially raised in Paris, he moved with his family to Oaklands, an estate near Sedlescombe, East Sussex, in 1832. He attended Harrow School, the École Privat, Geneva, and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a B.A. in mathematics in 1844.[1]
His father then wanted him to study law, but instead he left England and went to Rome to study music and art, enrolling at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Accademia di San Luca. His father attempted to make him return by reducing his allowance, but in 1847, upon the death of his elder brother, he gained financial independence when he inherited family estates in Connaught, the will requiring that he change his surname to Brabazon. From then on he led a life of travel, art study and painting, inspired by the works of artists such as Velázquez and Turner.
In 1858 he inherited Oaklands, whose management he left to his brother-in-law while he continued to travel - mostly in Europe, but with trips to Africa and India - always returning with his watercolours. Describing himself as living "for Art and Sunshine", he viewed himself as a gentleman amateur, and did not show or try to sell his work until his mid-seventies.
With the encouragement of artist friends, particularly John Singer Sargent, he began to exhibit, first at the New English Art Club, followed by successful one-man exhibitions at the Goupil Gallery in Bond Street. He died at Sedlescombe in 1906, and is buried there.
Due to financial problems with the family estate, in 1926 Brabazon's relatives sold the works that they had inherited. The quantity, 3199 over 27 months, seriously devalued their price and Brabazon's reputation. Since the 1980s, however, the art dealership Chris Beetles Ltd has led a revival, and many major museums have examples of his work.
References
"Sharpe [post Brabazon], Hercules Brabazon (SHRP839HB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Emil von Sauer: Meine Welt - Bilder aus dem Geheimfache meiner Kunst und meines Lebens
Sources
Kilburn, Jessica. "Brabazon, Hercules Brabazon (1821–1906)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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