The Lives and loves of Rudolph Ihlee and Edgar Hereford
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s stay in Port Vendres nearly a century ago is well known but the story of his two artist friends who settled in Collioure a little earlier was only recently published HERE
This newly discovered photograph of two couples in an English churchyard features the artists Edgar Hereford and Rudolph Ihlee both of whom met their wives while painting in France.
Their story, illustrated by many of their paintings, is told in James Trollope’s book Rudolph Ihlee: The Road to Collioure which is available from amazon.fr
Ihlee, who met his wife Isabelle while grape-picking, painted more than 200 pictures of the P-O. Hereford, whose wife Margot came from Brittany, was less productive but recently a few of his paintings have appeared on the market including this image of Marquixanes.
After the war both artists settled in England living close to each other in villages near Peterborough. Hereford died in 1953 and Ihlee in 1968
Thank you for sharing. I will look into both of them..