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He was born on May 24, 1842 in Montreal, Canada, the son of John Sandham, a house-decorator, and Elizabeth (Tait) Sandham, both British subjects.
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Photograph Description: The dawn of liberty, Lexington, 1775 Hy Sandham. Related Names: Sandham, Henry, 1842-1910 , artist Date Created Published: c1911. Summary: The Battle of Lexington. Notes: J163480 Reproduction of painting by Henry Sandham. Copyright by S. N. Wood. Subjects: Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775. Photographic prints--1910-1920.
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He was born on May 24, 1842 in Montreal, Canada, the son of John Sandham, a house-decorator, and Elizabeth (Tait) Sandham, both British subjects.
He was educated in the public schools of Montreal.
He became assistant in William Notman's photographic studio, where he was eventually promoted to a partnership. His success in retouching portraits led him to make experiments in painting which were measurably encouraging. He then tried his hand at landscapes, making sketches along the St. Lawrence.
His work was seen by John A. Fraser, later art editor of the Century, who did much towards helping him.
After a visit to England and France in 1880 he went to Boston. He made drawings for a number of books, including Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore (1886), F. J. Stimson's King Noanett: A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay (1896), and Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona (1900). He also illustrated the last-named author's Glimpses of California and the Missions (1902), going to California for the purpose. In 1909 he illustrated A. R. H. Moncrieff's Adventures in America. Among the drawings he made for the Century were those which accompanied George Kennan's papers on Siberia, in 1888-89.
He contributed illustrations to other periodicals, designed bookplates and Easter cards, and wrote and illustrated a paper on Haiti for Harper's New Monthly Magazine, August 1899. A volume published about 1920, Pictures of Canadian History, contains a number of his drawings.
Sandham's first large historical picture, "The Dawn of Liberty, " delineating the fight on Lexington Common in 1775, now hangs in the town hall of Lexington. It was first shown at the Boston Art Club, of which Sandham was vice-president. Subsequent essays in historical painting comprise his "Founding in Maryland, " exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, showing Calvert and his colonists taking formal possession of the grant in the name of Lord Baltimore, and a very large composition called "The March of Time, " twelve by twenty-one feet, containing forty-six life-size figures, many of them portraits of veterans of the Civil War, shown marching across Boston Common during a reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1889. This work was exhibited at the Boston Art Club in 1890, with some ninety other pictures by Sandham, and was later acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington. In 1901 Sandham left Boston and went to London, where he lived until his death nine years later.
He was buried at Kensal Green. A memorial exhibition of his works was held at the Imperial Institute, London, in June 1911.
He attained some reputation in Canada as portrait painter and landscapist; he was one of the few artists chosen to form the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; and Princess Louise selected his "Beacon Light, St. John Harbor" for the National Gallery collection at Ottawa. He had exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon and had received medals in London, Philadelphia, Boston, and Lisbon. He had awards at Expositions Universelle in Paris. Besides, he became a successful illustrator. He illustrated A. R. H. Moncrieff's Adventures in America (1909), Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore (1886), F. J. Stimson's King Noanett: A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay (1896) and other famous works. He was also known for portraits, including one of Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, and his historic paintings (example, "The Dawn of Liberty").
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On May 23, 1865, he married Agnes Fraser, daughter of John Fraser, a Canadian journalist; four of their six children died before reaching maturity. His wife died in 1906.
