Manchester Art Gallery
9 December 2016 – 23 April 2017
Free Admission Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL United Kingdom
Web: www.manchesterartgallery.org
The first retrospective of the English impressionist painter and art theorist Wynford Dewhurst since his death, in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery. He was born in Manchester in 1864 and began his career studying law. He moved to Paris at the relatively advanced age of 27 to train as an artist, returning to France throughout his life to paint in the valleys of the Seine and the Creuse in the style of Claude Monet, who became his principal mentor. This exhibition brings together a large selection of Dewhurst’s shimmering paintings with archival photographs and documents to reintroduce the painter to his native city.
