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          Lee-Hankey was..

          He was born in Chester and worked as a designer after leaving school.

        1. Best known for his romantic evocations of French pastoral life, the British painter William Lee Hankey's skilfully executed work is imbued with rich colour and.
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        3. William Lee Hankey was born in Chester.
        4. William Lee-Hankey was an innovative experimenter in colour printmaking techniques.

          5. William Lee Hankey

          English painter

          William Lee Hankey (1869–1952) RWS, RI, ROI, RE, NS[clarification needed] was a British painter[1] and book illustrator.[2] He specialised in landscapes, character studies[3] and portraits of pastoral life, particularly in studies of mothers with young children such as "We’ve Been in the Meadows All Day".[4]

          He was born in Chester and worked as a designer after leaving school.

          He studied art in the evenings at the Chester School of Art (now the Department of Art and Design at University of Chester), then at the Royal College of Art. Later in Paris he became influenced by the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage, who also favoured rustic scenes depicted in a realistic but sentimental style.

          He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896 and was President of the London Sketch Club from 1902 to 1904. He stayed in France in the early 1900s, painting many of his works in Brittany and Normandy, where he