On March 15th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:
Harry Faulkner van der Weyden was born 08 Sept 1868 in Boston, USA. He was the grandson of P H van der Weyde and the son of Henry van der Weyde [artist, inventor (in particular, inventor of successful artificial light photography at his studio in Regent Street, London.) and a Union officer in the Civil War as mentioned in one of the blogs above.]
Harry was one of the American artists in France from the 1890s to after WWI. He lived in Montreuil-sur-Mer in the Pas de Calais. One of his later paintings, "The Coastwise Lights" was apparently painted near Rye where he lived in England after the war. The lights on the left of the picture are said to be Dungeness Lighthouse while the lights of the small town on a hill to the right is supposed to be Rye. The original was in the possession of his daughter Helen van der Weyden where I saw it and discussed it with her.
Harry seems to have been co-patenter with his father of a collapsible car which could be narrowed for travelling down tight-squeeze country lanes - it seems not to have caught on!
Harry died on 23 Sept 1952 in England where his ashes were scattered.
Harry Faulkner van der
Harry Faulkner van der Weyden was born 08 Sept 1868 in Boston, USA. He was the grandson of P H van der Weyde and the son of Henry van der Weyde [artist, inventor (in particular, inventor of successful artificial light photography at his studio in Regent Street, London.) and a Union officer in the Civil War as mentioned in one of the blogs above.]
Harry was one of the American artists in France from the 1890s to after WWI. He lived in Montreuil-sur-Mer in the Pas de Calais. One of his later paintings, "The Coastwise Lights" was apparently painted near Rye where he lived in England after the war. The lights on the left of the picture are said to be Dungeness Lighthouse while the lights of the small town on a hill to the right is supposed to be Rye. The original was in the possession of his daughter Helen van der Weyden where I saw it and discussed it with her.
Harry seems to have been co-patenter with his father of a collapsible car which could be narrowed for travelling down tight-squeeze country lanes - it seems not to have caught on!
Harry died on 23 Sept 1952 in England where his ashes were scattered.