George Percy Jacomb-Hood
A Very Gallant Gentleman
Sketch for a proposed painting of an incident in the South Pole Exhibition
Oil on board
18ins x 23.5ins
Private collection
George Percy Jacomb-Hood MVO (6 July 1857 – 11 December 1929) was a painter, etcher and illustrator. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and Society of Portrait Painters.
George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1929)
Una
Oil on paper
H 138 x W 105 cm
Brampton Museum
Jacomb-Hood’s painting was inspired by Edmund Spenser’s sixteenth-century poem The Faerie Queen. In the poem, Una is the beautiful young daughter of a king and queen who have been imprisoned by a ferocious dragon. Una undertakes a quest to free her parents.
George Percy Jacomb-Hood
The Red Cross Knight, a study for Edmund Spencer's "The Faery Queene", c. 1918
Coloured pastel on laid paper
sheet 590 x 440 mm
Private collection
Taking Place in a medieval land where fairies and witches abound, Una and the Red Cross Knight tells the story of a knight who requests an adventure from Queen Glorianna,, ruler of Faery Land. Granting this, she instructs the young man to travel with Princess Una; a maiden who’s land and family have been seized by a vicious dragon. As they journey together much befalls them, as they face the conniving of witches and wizards who wish to do them harm for no other purpose than the hatred of goodness. Eventually, they overcome their many obstacles, where the Red Cross Knight defeats the dragon after a grueling battle, and the two marry, spending many happy days together. After much celebration the Red Cross Knight returns to the court of Glorianna to finish his service, promising to return on its completion. More on The Red Cross Knight
George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1929)
An Idyll of Theocritus
Oil on canvas
H 132 x W 132 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
An Idyll of Theocritus was painted in the late 19th century, inspired by a classical poem, by Theocritus written in 3BC, telling of the clash between the town girl and country boy. The painting is based on an Idyll poem by Theocritus written in 3BC
A country cow herder tries to kiss a city girl Eunica. She rejects him saying he smells and doesn’t kiss properly. He consoles himself that other girls fancy him and hopes Eunica never has anybody in her bed.
George Percy Jacomb-Hood
The young swineherd
Oil on canvas
70.5 x 91cm
Private collection
"The Swineherd" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a prince who disguises himself as a swineherd to win an arrogant princess. The tale was first published December 20, 1841 by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark in Fairy Tales Told for Children. The tale appears to be original with Andersen though similar tales are known. "The Swineherd" has been adapted to various media. Private collection
Jacomb-Hood was born at Redhill in Surrey, the fourth of nine children of Robert Jacomb-Hood and Jane Stothard Littlewood. His grandfather, a yeoman farmer in Essex 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.
.George Percy Jacomb-Hood
The betrothal
Oil on canvas
40 x 25 1/2in (102 x 65cm)
Private collection
George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1929)
The Family
Oil on canvas
Height: 141 cm (55.5 in); Width: 121 cm (47.6 in)
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1929)
Mother and Child
Oil on canvas
H 116.8 x W 91.5 cm
Victoria Art Gallery
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. He exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in London in 1921.
John Singer Sargent
Italian Sailing Vessels at Anchor by , c. 1904-07
Watercolor on paper, over preliminary pencil
35.2 x 50.3 cm
John Singer Sargent
George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1929
Spanish Dance
Oil on canvas
H 78 x W 68 cm
George Percy Jacomb-Hood
George V and Queen Mary leaving St George's Chapel after Garter Service,
c. 1913
Oil on board
54.1 x 23.7 cm
Royal Collection, Great Britain
Jacomb-Hood recalls in his autobiography that he had received a letter from Laurence Housmen, enclosing a snapshot from the Daily Mirror, saying that his painting of the Levee at St James's Palace, 1913 was so interesting as a composition, that the enclosed photograph of a royal ceremony with their Majesties and others descending the steps of St George's Chapel might also be treated pictorially (With Brush and Pencil, 1925, p 110). The artist then, apparently, obtained a proof of the original photograph and painted a small picture, which was included in the 'Gem Room' of the Royal Academy. A painting entitled 'Ceremony of the Garter, Windsor', possibly this work, was exhibited at the Academy in 1920 (495). More on this painting
GEORGE PERCY JACOMB-HOOD (1857-1929)
Investiture of the Star of India, Delhi, 14 December 1911, c. 1914
Oil on canvas
78.0 x 130.1 cm
The Royal Collection Trust,
It was in his role as artist-correspondent of the Graphic that he accompanied several royal visits to India at the start of the century. In October 1911 he travelled as part of the Royal suite to India on HMS Medina with King George V and Queen Mary; the high-point of the tour was the Delhi Durbar, here the new King and Queen were presented to an assembled audience of Indian dignitaries and princes as the Emperor and Empress of India. The Investiture of the Star of India took place two days later, on the 14 December. More on this painting
The artist describes the event in his autobiography:
'On the Thursday night was the great function of the "Investiture" held in a great tent outside the King's House…The lines of guests and chiefs, all in full dress rising tier behind tier, on each side of the carpet, up which came singly, one after the other, those to be invested with the Star of India. On a raised platform at the end, with a background of uniforms, imperial cadets and guards, the fans and yak-tail whisks of ceremony, held by scarlet-and-gold chuprassis, sat enthroned the King and Queen in robes of the Star of India, and supported by Lord Hardinge [the Viceroy], Lady Hardinge, Lord Crewe and the Duke of Teck, and her Majesty's ladies on the other side. His Majesty began with a somewhat touching ceremony of investing the Queen herself.'
George Percy Jacomb-Hood
Tent pegging (Skinner's Horse), c. 1912
Watercolour with bodycolour
26 x 21.5cm; 10¼ x 8½in
Private collection
Tent pegging is a cavalry sport of ancient origin, and is one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Equestrian Federation.
The specific game of tent pegging has a mounted horseman riding at a gallop and using a sword and/or a lance to pierce, pick up, and carry away a small ground target (a symbolic tent peg) or a series of small ground targets.
The Skinner's Horse was a cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was originally raised at Hansi by Lt.-Col. James Skinner as the 2nd Regiment of Skinner's Horse in 1814. More on Tent pegging
Jacomb-Hood regularly produced illustrations for 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 also painted Madeleine Shaw-Lefevre in her role as principal of Somerville College, Oxford.
He wrote an autobiography in 1925, entitled With Brush and Pencil.
He died on 11 December 1929 at Philip Napier Miles's villa at Alassio in Italy. More on George Percy Jacomb-Hood
George Percy Jacomb-Hood, 1857-1930, British
Seascape With Boats, c. 1800s
Watercolor on paper
19.7 x 25.4 cm (7 3/4 x 10 inches)
RISD Museum
George Percy Jacomb-Hood
Poole Harbour, Dorset
Oil on panel
5½ x 9¼ in.
Private collection
Poole Harbour is a large natural harbour in Dorset, southern England, with the town of Poole on its shores. The harbour is a drowned valley (ria) formed at the end of the last ice age and is the estuary of several rivers, the largest being the Frome. The harbour has a long history of human settlement stretching to pre-Roman times. The harbour is extremely shallow (average depth 48 cm [19 in]), with one main dredged channel through the harbour, from the mouth to Holes Bay. More on Poole Harbour
George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1929)
Two Boys in a Boat, c. 1887
Medium oil on canvas
Height: 62.5 cm (24.6 in); Width: 88 cm (34.6 in)
Lady Lever Art Gallery
He wrote an autobiography in 1925, entitled With Brush and Pencil.
He died on 11 December 1929 at Philip Napier Miles's villa at Alassio in Italy. More on George Percy Jacomb-Hood
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