Mr. Herkomer, who was born at Waal, in Bavaria, is the son of a wood
engraver who settled at Southampton in 1857. At thirteen he entered the
Art School in that town, and afterwards studied for a time at South
Kensington. His first Academy picture was "After the Toil of the Day,"
exhibited in 1873, when he was twenty-four, a work which extended his
reputation and prepared the way for "The Last Muster," 1875, the
memorable picture of the Chelsea pensioners, which afterwards figured in
the Paris Exhibition of 1878, and was there awarded one of the two Grand
Medals of Honour carried off by the English School. Among his best known
later pictures may be mentioned "Missing" (1881), "Homeward" (1882), and
"The Chapel of the Charterhouse" (1889). He was elected A.R.A. in 1879
and R.A. in 1890.
[Illustration: AGE 12 MONTHS.
_From a Drawing._]
[Illustration: AGE 3.
_From a Drawing._]
[Illustration: AGE 11.
_From a Photograph._]
[Illustration: AGE 47.
_From a Drawing by Himself._]
[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.
_From a Photo. by Gabell, Ebury St., S.W._]