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George Percy Jacomb-Hood

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197: 30: 62: 70: 85:, the fourth of nine children (two of whom died in infancy) of Robert Jacomb-Hood (1822–1900) and Jane Stothard Littlewood (1827–1869). His grandfather, a yeoman farmer in Essex, was born Robert Jacomb (1794–1857), a cousin of William Hood, the last male member of his family, who left his estate at 435:
British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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to him on condition that he took the additional surname of Hood, the estate having been in the Hood family since the 1620s. His father was Chief Engineer on the
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who gave him a number of overseas assignments. In 1896 the magazine sent him to Greece and to Delhi in 1902. He accompanied the
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Her sister, Sybil Marguerite Gonne de Hochepied-Larpent, OBE (1867–1941), known as "Reta", married
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George Percy Jacomb-Hood died on 11 December 1929, aged 72, at Philip Napier Miles's villa at
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as well as studying while touring abroad in Paris and Madrid. He was a member of the
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Jacomb-Hood married Henrietta Kemble de Hochepied-Larpent (1867–1941), daughter of
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after Frank Miles's death when Jacomb-Hood's father bought Miles's house in
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Dulwich hosts major exhibition of watercolours by John Singer Sargent
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Italian Sailing Vessels at Anchor by John Singer Sargent, c. 1904-07
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in Oxford, presented in 1943 by her sister and heiress.
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Arthur de Hochepied Larpent, 8th Baron de Hochepied
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G. P. Jacomb-Hood

MVO
New English Art Club
Society of Portrait Painters


Redhill
Surrey
Bardon, Leicestershire
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Tonbridge School
Slade School of Fine Art
Royal Society of Painter-Etchers
Savile Club
Chelsea Arts Club
New English Art Club
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Society of Graphic Art
The Graphic
Prince
Princess of Wales
George V
Madeleine Shaw Lefevre
Somerville College, Oxford
Arthur de Hochepied Larpent, 8th Baron de Hochepied
John Singer Sargent
Ashmolean Museum

Philip Napier Miles

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