George Heming Mason. George Heming Mason was an English landscape painter of rural scenes, initially in Italy, then England itself.
He was also known as George Mason or George Hemming Mason. Mason was born at Fenton Park in the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, the eldest son of George Miles Mason and Eliza Heming.
His grandfather, Miles Mason, was a potter, and the pottery was afterwards carried on by his father and uncle who invented Mason's iron-stone china. His father, who graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, was a cultivated man, who retiring from his business in 1829, became a country gentleman, devoting himself to literature and painting.
In 1832 the family moved to Wetley Abbey, a mansion situated in the midst of a park, near Wetley Rocks in Staffordshire, five miles from the Potteries. Mason was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and from 1834 trained to be a doctor under William Royden Watts, a surgeon, of Birmingham, but abandoned medicine in 1844 in order to pursue a career as an artist.
As a youth he was passionately fond of literature and athletics, and he inherited his father's taste for painting. An early oil sketch of his exists entitled Dummy's Turn to Play in which he tried to embody a ghastly incident of the time of the plague. He was also art critic to a local newspaper. In the autumn of 1843, Mason left England with his brother Miles on a trip through
He was also known as George Mason or George Hemming Mason. Mason was born at Fenton Park in the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, the eldest son of George Miles Mason and Eliza Heming.
His grandfather, Miles Mason, was a potter, and the pottery was afterwards carried on by his father and uncle who invented Mason's iron-stone china. His father, who graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, was a cultivated man, who retiring from his business in 1829, became a country gentleman, devoting himself to literature and painting.
In 1832 the family moved to Wetley Abbey, a mansion situated in the midst of a park, near Wetley Rocks in Staffordshire, five miles from the Potteries. Mason was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and from 1834 trained to be a doctor under William Royden Watts, a surgeon, of Birmingham, but abandoned medicine in 1844 in order to pursue a career as an artist.
As a youth he was passionately fond of literature and athletics, and he inherited his father's taste for painting. An early oil sketch of his exists entitled Dummy's Turn to Play in which he tried to embody a ghastly incident of the time of the plague. He was also art critic to a local newspaper. In the autumn of 1843, Mason left England with his brother Miles on a trip through
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