A Summer Shade
Haughton was principally a landscape painter. He trained under Herkomer (1849-1914), and exhibited works at the Royal Academy from 1893 onwards. He lived for much of his life in the Hull region, also residing in Kent and Devon. Haughton's principal source of inspiration was nature and he often sketched en plein air, in the outdoors. Like A Summer Shade, most of his landscapes were worked on a very small scale, their delicate and jewel-like colours influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, whose techniques Haughton admired. The dappled effects of the sunlight are also reminiscent of the work of the French Impressionists.
