Life and Letters of Sir Hubert Herkomer

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Excerpt from Life and Letters of Sir Hubert Herkomer: A Study in Struggle and SuccessHubert, the subject Of our biography, was born on May 26, 1849, at Waal, a village Of Bavaria some forty miles from the city of Munich. Though the Herkomers had been in Bavaria at least from the beginning of the seventeenth century and in the earlier days had played, we are told, rather prominent parts in local history, Hubert's knowledge of his ancestors seems to have gone no further back than his grandfather. Even that retrospect, however, brought him into touch with the memories of the Thirty Years' War, the sufferings of which seem to have burnt deep into the popular memory. Hubert tells us how his grand father was made to pray continuously when on visits to his own grandparents and that this habit dated from the fear inspired by that terrible and prolonged struggle.Hubert may have inherited his complexion, much of his temperament and also his musical taste from his mother, but it was from the paternal side that he derived his faculty in art and craftsmanship and technical invention. His grandfather was by trade a plasterer (m aurer), but he was far more than a merely mechanical workman. He had strong artistic instincts as well as a decided gift of invention, which he improved in the making Of ingenious locks and other contrivances of a practical and domestic character. From the grandfather probably dated the ambition of building a great house, a monument Of the family skill in various arts, which was realized many years later, not in native Bavaria but in the little Hertfordshire village which from its meadows and woodlands sees the lights of London like a dreary dawn on the midnight sky.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.