Charles Bower Adderley (1814–1905), 1st Lord Norton 1891
George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1929)
Warwick Shire Hall
Redhill, Surrey, England on 6 July 1857. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London for three years, and was awarded a travelling scholarship enabling him to further his studies in Madrid and with Jean-Paul Laurens, (1838-1921) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Following his return to England he set up a studio in Fulham, London and subsequently worked as a painter, illustrator and etcher He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Society of Oil Painters, Fine Art Society, Walker's Gallery, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Gravers, Ridley Art Club, New English Art Club, Baillie Gallery, New Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters and Grosvenor Gallery in London; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin: Manchester Academy of Fine Arts; and at the Paris Salon.
He contributed illustrations to Illustrated London News and to The Graphic, which sent him on assignments to Greece in 1896, and to Delhi in 1902. Jacomb-Hood also illustrated a number of books including Adrift in a Great City by M. E. Winchester (1892); Lysbeth : A Tale of the Dutch by H. Rider Haggard (1901); and The Boy's Illiad by Walter Copland Perry (1902).
Jacomb-Hood lived in London and died while on a visit to Alassio in Italy on 11 December 1929. His address at the time of his death was 26 Tite Street, Chelsea, London.
Text source: Arts + Architecture Profiles from Art History Research net (AHRnet) https://www.arthistoryresearch.net/
