Vincent Haddelsey


Vincent Haddelsey was an English painter.

Life

Haddelsey was born in Grimsby, England. He came from a family of lawyers: his father, grandfather and great-grandfather all worked in the legal profession. His two grandmothers were gifted painters.
Haddelsey went to school in Ampleforth in Yorkshire, England, but taught himself most of his art.
In his work, he focuses in particular on landscapes and horses.
In 1965 Haddelsey travelled to Mexico, where he intended to paint members of the Charros tribe. He took part in a rodeo and was as a result invited to become the member of a Mexican association of elite horsemen
In 1969 he won the Great Prize of Lugano for his naive art.
In 1980, Vincent Haddelsey went on a journey to Inner Mongolia, where he studied and painted the Mongolian Pony. Various paintings resulted from this trip.
In 1989 Vincent travelled to Chile staying with his cousin Margaret Lunt whose husband John was stationed with the British Embassy as the Defence Attache. Vincent visited a number of Quasimodo horse gatherings and drew many sketches and pencil drawings of the riders and horses of Chile.
Haddelsey died on 29 August 2010 in Paris, having suffered from dementia during the final years of his life.

Works by Haddelsey

Paintings