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La Thangue, Henry Herbert
(b London, 19 Jan 1859; d London, 21 Dec 1929). English painter. He attended Dulwich College where he met fellow painters Stanhope Forbes and Frederick Goodall. He enrolled briefly at the Lambeth School of Art before entering the Royal Academy schools c. 1874. In December 1879 he was awarded a gold medal and a travelling scholarship along with a letter of introduction from Frederic Leighton to Jean-Léon Gérôme, under whom he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. While there he was influenced by the rustic naturalist painters of the Salon and by Whistler. Such early works as Study in a Boatbuilding Yard on the French Coast (exh. Grosvenor Gal., London, 1882; see 1978 exh. cat., fig. 3) echo the work of Jean-Charles Cazin and Jules Bastien-Lepage. La Thangue spent the summers of 1881 and 1882 working on the Brittany coast with Forbes and a wide circle of plein-air painters, including Bastien-Lepage. In 1883 he and the sculptor James Havard Thomas went to Donzère in the Rhône Valley, where La Thangue painted Poverty (priv. col.; see 1978 exh. cat., fig. 5), a work compositionally similar to Bastien-Lepage’s London Flower-seller (1882; untraced).
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