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Family of Hubert Herkomer and Eliza Louisa (Lulu) Griffiths

Husband: Hubert Herkomer (1849-1914)
Wife: Eliza Louisa (Lulu) Griffiths (1849-1885)
Marriage 12 Aug 1884 Parish Church, Llanrhydd, Denbighshire

Husband: Hubert Herkomer

Name: Hubert Herkomer
Sex: Male
Father: Lorenz Herkomer (1825-1888)
Mother: Josephine Niggl (1826-1879)
Birth 26 May 1849 Waal, Bavaria
Title Sir
Census 1871 (age 21-22) Artist, lodging at 32 Smith Sq, Chelsea (unmarried)
Census 1881 (age 31-32) Artist, 46 Penybryn, Llanllechyd, Glamorgan
Occupation btw 1885 and 1895 (age 35-46) Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford
Census 1891 (age 41-42) Artist, "Dyreham", Bushey, Herts
Occupation 14 Jun 1899 (age 50) Artist, R.A. (on Elsa's marriage cert.)
Residence 1901 (age 51-52) "Lululaund", Melbourne Rd, Bushey, Herts
Census 1911 (age 61-62) Artist, Lululaund, Melbourne Road, Bushey, Watford
Death 31 Mar 1914 (age 64) Matford, Budleigh Salterton, Devon
Burial 4 Apr 1914 Parish Church, Bushey, Herts

Wife: Eliza Louisa (Lulu) Griffiths

Name: Eliza Louisa (Lulu) Griffiths
Sex: Female
Father: Thomas Griffiths (c. 1820- )
Mother: Mary Unknown (c. 1820- )
Birth 1849 Rhyl, Flintshire
Census 1851 (age 1-2) Living with parents
Census 1861 (age 11-12) Living with parents
Census 1881 (age 31-32) Servant, living with Hubert Herkomer
Death fact 1885 (age 35-36) 1885 Dec Qtr, Watford, 3a/291 (aged 36)
Death Nov 1885 (age 35-36) Watford, Hertfordshire

Note on Husband: Hubert Herkomer (1)

Hubert Herkomer was an accomplished portrait artist, illustrator, printmaker, stage designer, filmmaker, writer and teacher. His family left Bavaria (Germany) in 1851 and lived briefly in Cleveland, Ohio, before settling in Southampton in 1857. Herkomer was a very versatile individual. He became ARA in 1879 and a full Academician in 1890. In 1899 he was ennobled by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, being permitted to change his name to "von Herkomer". He built a grandiose house in Bushey, Herts, named "Lululaund" after his second wife who tragically died in the aftermath of a road accident. He founded a School of Art at Bushey in 1883. He succeeded John Ruskin as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford from 1885 to 1894. He was knighted in 1908.

Sources: Dictionary of National Biography 1912-1921, The Grove Dictionary of Art

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Note on Husband: Hubert Herkomer (2)

VON HERKOMER Sir Hubert of Lululand Bushey Hertfordshire knight died 31 March 1914 at Matford Budleigh Salterton Devonshire. Probate London 2 June to Dame Margaret von Herkomer widow and Ernest Charles Morgan solicitor. Effects £41319 7s.