Abbott, John White (1763-1851)

A friend & pupil of F. Towne, he was educated & spent nearly all of his life inn Exeter, where he practiced as a surgeon. In 1791 he made his only extended journey outside the West Country, a sketching tour of Scotland, the Lake District, Lancashire, Derbyshire & Warwickshire. From 1793-1805 he exhibited oil paintings at the RA, as an honorary exhibitor. In 1797 he toured Monmouthshire, and again in 1827 when he also visited Gloucestershire & Wiltshire. He exhibited again at the RA in 1810 & 1822. In 1825 he inherited the estate of Fordlands, near Exeter, and in 1835 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the County. Examples in the BM, VAM, Exeter Museum, NG Scotland & elsewhere.

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Aberigh-Mackay, P (ex.1905-1906)

She went on a sketching tour in the Kashmir Valley. Exhibited in London & RA.

Absolon, John NWS (1815-1895)

Landscape, seascape & genre painter in oil & watercolour.. Began career with theatrical scenery at Covent Garden. First exhibited aged 17. Studied in Paris. Exhibited 660 works at the NWS. Also at the RBA, RI & ROI.

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Ackermann, A.G. RI (ex.1893-1940)

Prominent watercolour painter. Studied Heatherleys, Westminster & RA School. Exhibited extensively including 117 works at the Fine Art Society, 139 at RI, 181 at Leicester Galleries etc.

Adam, Edouard (1847-1929)

Adams, Charles James (1859-1931)

Gravesend born landscape painter in oil & watercolour. Studied Leicester School of Art & under W Pilsbury. Exhibited at the RA, RI, ROI, RBA & elsewhere

Adams, John Talbot (fl. 1861-1905)

He was a London landscape & rustic genre painter; he later moved to Sutton, Surrey. He exhibited one picture at the RA in 1862, & two in 1900. He also exhibited at BI & SS.

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Aitken, James (fl.1880-1935)

Fifeshire born painter of landscapes & river scenes. Member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts. Lived for a while on the Isle of Man, and also painted on the continent. Exhibited at RA, RSA, RI, RCA & elsewhere.

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Aitken, John E (1881-1957)

Watercolour landscape painter. Studied Manchester, Liverpool & Wallasey Scools of Art & under his father James Aitkin. Painted on the Continent & exhibited at the RA, RSW, RI & elsewhere.

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Albon, Charles F ARE (1856-1926)

Aldin, Cecil Charles Windsor (1870-1935)

He was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings of animals and rural life.Born in Slough, he was educated at Eastbourne College and Solihull Grammar School. He studied anatomy at South Kensington, and animal painting under William Frank Calderon. He lived at The Abbots, Sulhamstead Abbots from 1913 to 1914 and was church warden of St Mary's, the local church[1].His first drawings were published in Graphic in 1891.His illustrations include the original 1893 magazine publications of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, the 1910 edition of Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers and The Bunch Book (1932, about Bunch, a Sealyham Terrier) by James Douglas. He also published a short series of fully illustrated books in 1923, Old Manor Houses and Old Inns.

Aldridge, F.J. (1850-1933)

Worthing marine painter. Held own exhibitions in Brighton & Dorchester & exhibited at RA, RBA, RHA & WAG, Liverpool.

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Alken, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)

Sporting artist of great renown. Studied with JT Barber. Keen huntsman. Father & sons were also successful sporting artists. Many engraving were made from his work.

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Allbon , Charles ARE (1856-1926)

Watercolour & black & white artist. Exhibited at the Royal Academy and RE.

Ambrose, John RSMA (b. 1931)

Born at Brierly Hill, Staffordshire & educated locally. He was interested in painting from an early age & carried out his art training in the West Midlands, much influenced by D. A. Chatterton of Plymouth. Following a number of holidays & painting visits to Cornwall, he rented a cottage & studio at St. Ives, where he has now lived for more than 30 years. Since 1992 he has made working visits to Venice. He has exhibited at the RSMA since 1985 & at the ROI (1989), & was elected RSMA in 1990.

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Ansdell, Richard (1815-1885)

Liverpool sporting & landscape painter. Began studying painting in 1836; by 1840 he was exhibiting in the RA. He painted many Scottish subjects in the popular Landseer manner. He also painted battles & historical scenes. Exhibited at the RA & BI. Elected ARA 1861 RA 1870, President of the Liverpool Academy 1845-46.

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Appleyard, Frederick (1874-1963)

Landscape & portrait painter who studied at Scarborough School of Art & the RCA. Exhibited at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Art; Walker Galleries; Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery & the Royal Academy.

Armfield, George (fl.1840-75)

London painter of dogs, especially terriers chasing birds, cats or mice. Also painted landscapes, dead game & other wild animals. Exhibited at the RA, Brit Inst & Suffolk St Gallery.

Armour, George Denholm OBE (1864-1949)

He was an animal painter and cartoonist, was born at Waterside, Lanarkshire on the 30th January 1864, the son of a cotton broker. His early years were spent in Liverpool, but he returned to Scotland for schooling in Fife. After attending St Andrews University, he moved to Edinburgh, where he studied at the School of Art and the RSA Schools. There he came under the influence of the animal painter and Academician, Robert Alexander and the two of them traveled to Tangiers to paint, hunt and also to buy cheap horses, only returning when their money ran out. He then moved to London, where he shared a studio with the Graphic and Punch illustrator Phil May It was on a subsequent hunting and painting expedition to Tangier that he met Joseph Crawhall (1861-1913), who remained a bosom friend until the latter’s untimely death at the age of 51. Both hunting mad, upon their return to England the two friends ran a small stud at a farmhouse in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire. They painted, hunted and roistered together and Crawhall continued to influence his friend’s work; the household only broke up in 1898, when Armour married, with Crawhall standing as best man. Although always a fine draughtsman, it was after he met Crawhall that Armour developed the subtle but strong drawing style seen in his work for Punch and other publications. He was first illustrated in The Graphic in 1890, while sharing the studio with Phil May and from 1894 concentrated largely on his cartoon work. Introduced to the magazine by May, he contributed to Punch for 35 years, although never entirely abandoning his hunting and shooting watercolours and washes. Armour travelled to New York and Long Island in June 1913, to cover the International Polo Tournament for Country Life. In 1910, Armour visited Austro-Hungary to study military equestrian procedures at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. During the Great War he commanded the army’s remount depot in Salonika, from 1917-19. For this he was appointed OBE in 1919. His love of the outdoors, horses, hunting, racing, shooting, stalking and his work are interwoven. When hunting he always carried a sketchbook, while his total commitment to his horses led to his converting half his studio into a stable. It is this great enthusiasm and deep knowledge which lends so many of his animal portrayals their power and flowing movement, just as his sense of humour, wit and keen observation of outdoor pursuits give his cartoon illustrations their appeal. Caw states that in comparison to the works of other exponents of the pictured ‘sporting joke’, in ‘draughtsmanship and design they are incomparably finer.’

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