Herkomer

First published in 1999, this book is a study of the life and work of the Victorian portraitist and social-realist painter, a self -made polymath whose boundless enthusiasm led him to take an early and important interest in photography, film-making, stagecraft and motoring. Lee MacCormaick Edwards examines the origins of his social-realist work and his links with the Arts and Crafts movement. Letters, journals and previously undiscovered manuscript materials are used to give fresh insight into his ambitions and concerns