Charles Haigh Wood (1856-1927) ✽ English painter

Thank you all for watching my video and for your comments. ✽ All the best to everyone! Charles Haigh-Wood English, 1856 – 1927 Charles Haigh-Wood was an English genre painter, who lived in London, Bury and Taplow, Buckinghamshire. Charles Haigh-Wood was born in 1856 in a home above a workshop in Bury, England where his father Charles Wood, a master craftsman, built picture frames. By the 1870s when Charles Sr.’s business was prospering, he diversified into picture-dealing, and moved into a substantial new home. In 1873, at just 17, Charles Haigh-Wood was accepted to study art at The Royal Academy in London. While attending the Academy, Haigh-Wood captured a great deal of attention, and by 21 he was exhibiting at the Academy and was elected a member. For three years following, he traveled and studied Renaissance masters in Italy, before returning to settle in England. Haigh-Wood’s enchanting visions of romance, with attractive girls and pretty dresses are so