Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney
Born8 March 1842
Britain
Died1924
NationalityBritish
Known forPainter
MovementOrientalist

Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney (1842–1924) was a British painter and Orientalist, noted for his portraits.

Life and career

Macartney was born on 3 March 1842 to Maxwell Macartney, a doctor, and Maxwell's first wife Emily Eliza Hayes.[1] He was a student at Clare College, graduating in 1866.[2] As well as a painter Macartney was an orientalist academic, producing several English versions of oriental text[3][4] and a barrister at the Inner Temple.[1][5] Macartney, along with his half brother, Sir Mervyn Macartney, were amongst the founders of the Art Workers' Guild in 1884.[6] Macartney lived at Foxholds House, Thatcham which was designed by Sir Mervyn Macartney in 1895, and is now home to the regional office of English Nature.[7] He married Louisa Gardiner[8] and their son Carlile Aylmer Macartney was a noted academic specialising in the history and politics of East-Central Europe and in particular the history of Austria and Hungary.[9][10]

Work

Macartney painted both landscapes and portraits, exhibiting them at Dudley Museum and Art Gallery, the Grosvenor Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery and at the Royal Academy of Art.[8]

Several of his paintings are in the collections of the Tate Gallery,[11] Royal Society of Medicine, British Dental Association Dental Museum[12] and the Government Art Collection.[13]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Fox-Davies. Arthur Charles (1910). Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. p. 1044.
  2. ↑ Marlborough College Register from 1843 to 1904, Online: https://archive.org/stream/marlboroughcoll00collgoog/marlboroughcoll00collgoog_djvu.txt; entry reads "Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney, M.A., Scholar of Clare College, Cambridge; left 1866"
  3. ↑ "The Dîwân of Ghailân ibn 'Uqbah known as Dhu'r-Rummah. Edited by Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 1 (4): 173–176. October 1920. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00101740. S2CID 161419645.
  4. ↑ "Macartney, Carlile Henry Hayes 1842-". Worldcat. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  5. ↑ Marlborough College (1880). Marlborough College Register: From 1843 to 1879 Inclusive. p. xvi.
  6. ↑ Whyte. W (4 October 2007). "Founder members of the Art-Workers' Guild (act. 1884-1899)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/96545. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ↑ "HER Number:MWB17876 Record Type: Building Name: Foxhold House". heritage gateway. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  8. 1 2 "Maxwell Macartney (c.1814 – before 1881) doctor". Government Art Collection. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  9. ↑ Who's Who 1958. London: A & C Black. 1958. I.
  10. ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  11. ↑ "Carlile Henry Hayes Macartneyc.1842–1924". Tate Gallery. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  12. ↑ "Exhibition celebrates life of dental pioneer and first BDA President". British Dental Journal. 208 (3): 100. February 2010. doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.120. S2CID 62778852.
  13. ↑ 9 artworks by or after Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney at the Art UK site


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