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George Percy Jacomb-Hood

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186: 19: 51: 59: 74:, 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 424:
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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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
Robert Charles Goff

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