Shere Mill Pond, Surrey

A surgeon by profession, Francis Seymour Haden was also a dedicated printmaker who developed a close working relationship with his brother-in-law, the artist James McNeill Whistler. Haden's landscapes were renowned for their spontaneous sketch-like quality and mastery of foliage, water, and atmosphere. Crusading endlessly on behalf of etching's expressive possibilities, Haden launched a British Etching Revival in the 1860s that lasted over fifty years.