buyitflauntitthrowit: Maurice Greiffenhagen

Maurice Greiffenhagen (born London, 15 Dec 1862, died 26 Dec 1931) was a British painter and

Royal Academician. He illustrated books and designed posters as well as painting idyllic landscapes.

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Exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1884, he was made an Associate Member in 1916 and a Royal Academician in 1922.

From 1906 until 1926, LONDON BY LMS

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he taught at the Glasgow School of Art.

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led to him illustrating the author's popular adventure books, starting with an edition of She: A History of Adventure in 1889 She title page.jpg

- though Greiffenhagen apparently "disliked doing black-and-white work".
Greiffenhagen's 1891 painting, 'An Idyll',

inspired D H Lawrence's novel The White Peacock. The painting had "a profound effect" on the author, who wrote:

As for Greiffenhagen's 'Idyll', it moves me almost as if I were in love myself. Under its intoxication, I have flirted madly this Christmas.
he also contributed to various magazines of around the turn of the century, such as The Windsor Magazine. His paintings are very different, in some cases being of the idyllic school, sometimes symbolist, and sometimes in a flat, decorative style that lent itself well to decorative schemes..
He studied at the RA Schools, and became ARA in 1916 and RA in 1922. His reputation was established when the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, bought his picture The Idyll, and the Chantrey Bequest later bought two of his pictures for the nation: Women by a Lake and Dawn.
In the 1900s, Greiffenhagen turned increasingly to portraiture, and in 1906 he was given charge of the Life Department at the Glasgow School of Art, a position he retained for 23 years despite complaining of the difficulty of travelling so far and so often from London. aabove and below walberswick.

Walberswick is a village on the Suffolk coast in England, across the River Blyth from Southwold. Coastal erosion and the shifting of the mouth of the River Blyth meant that the neighbouring town of Dunwich was lost as a port in the last years of the 13th century. Following a brief period of rivalry and dispute with Dunwich, Walberswick became a major trading port from the 13th century until World War I. Almost half of the properties in the village are holiday homes. There is a ferry across the river Blyth to Southwold.Walberswick had a railway station on the Southwold Railway but the line and station closed on 11 April 1929. Between 1901 and 1912 he exhibited at many of the big international exhibitions. Though married, Greiffenhagen had an affair with Catherine Carswell in 1908. He is represented as Louis Pender in her first novel, Open the Door!, published in 1920

Greiffenhagen also created distinctive commercial posters, including a colourful 1894 advertisement for Pall Mall Budget magazine which "created a distinct sensation among the younger men"