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Category Archives: English artist
Rocky Seascape with Shipwreck by Clakson Frederick Stanfield
In my last blog I featured a painting of a lighthouse by Edward Hopper and talked about how these structures over the years had helped seafarers find their way around coasts and enabled them to safely navigate treacherous waters. However … Continue reading
“Moonlights” by John Atkinson Grimshaw
Today I am featuring some works by the English Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw, who was born in Leeds in 1836. His father, David, at various times during his life, served as a policeman, worked for Pickfords and then as … Continue reading
Greta Bridge by John Sell Cotman
I try to visit my children, who live in London, every couple of months and take the opportunity to visit new art exhibition at one of the many city galleries. As they are all away on extended breaks in far-off … Continue reading
The Outcast by Brian Hatton
Today I am concluding my look at the life of the Hereford artist Brian Hatton and featuring a couple more of his paintings. In 1905 Brian Hatton was accepted into Trinity College Oxford where he remained for a year. Hatton enjoyed travelling … Continue reading
Brian Hatton – Family portraits
Today I am going to start to look at the life of a young artist, born at the end of the nineteenth century who, like Frédéric Bazille, the featured artist in my last blog, had promised so much but whose … Continue reading
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A Suffolk Farm by Edward Seago
Last Sunday, I went down to London to visit two of my children and my one and only grandchild and on the following afternoon I had scheduled a visit to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. I had some spare time … Continue reading
John Keats by Joseph Severn
My Daily Art Display today centres around one of the greatest English poets, John Keats, and one of his most devoted friend, the English portrait artist Joseph Severn. Joseph Severn was born in Hoxton near London in 1793. He was … Continue reading
A Primitive City by Edward Calvert
When I wander around various galleries, I am often lost in wonderment when I stand in front of a massive painting. I can remember when I was in Venice last year and visited the Accademia Galleries and stood before the … Continue reading
Disappointed Love by Francis Danby
Francis Danby was an English painter, born in 1793, in a small village near Waterford, Ireland, where his father owned a farm. When he was fourteen years of age his father died and he along with his mother and twin … Continue reading
Hope by George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts was a Victorian painter and sculptor who was closely associated in his later years with the Symbolism Movement. Symbolism came about in the 1880’s but by the end of the century it had almost died away having … Continue reading
