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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Henry Clarence
Whaite often referred to as Clarence Whaite (1828 - 1912) was an English
artist who is best known for his landscape paintings of Wales. In his
later life Whaite married and settled in Wales, and was one of the
leading figures in the formation of both the Royal Cambrian Academy of
Art and the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. In 1881 Whaite led a group
of English and Welsh artists in forming the Cambrian Academy of Art,
later the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, the first art Academy in Wales.
He later became the President of the Cambrian Academy and in 1892 became
president of the Manchester Academy, a post he held until his death. A
bronze of Whaite by Irish artist John Cassidy was commissioned and
completed in 1898. His oil paintings often used spots of pure colour, a
consequence of his interest in colour theory, which may have pre-empted
the pointilism strand of Impressionism that developed elsewhere in
Europe.
