John Griffiths (artist)
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.jpg) A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. | |
| Born | 29 November 1837 Llanfair Caereinion, Wales |
| Died | 1 December 1918 |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Education | Royal College of Art |
| Known for | Painter, teacher |
| Movement | Orientalist |
John Griffiths (29 November 1837 – 1 December 1918) was a Welsh artist who worked in India, noted for his Orientalist works.
Life and career
He was born in
Bombay was designed. Griffiths undertook many commissions, including work on the Victoria Terminus and the High Court. After his decade in Bombay, Griffiths was appointed Principal of the Mayo School of Art and Curator of the Museum in Lahore, now in Pakistan.[3]
One of his major works was the copying of paintings in the
Buddhist temples at Ajanta which were published in two large folio volumes "The paintings in the Buddhist Cave Temples at Ajanta".[4]
He retired in 1895, and moved to Manafon, Montgomeryshire and later to Norton, Sherborne, Dorset where he lived until his death on the 1 December 1918. He was married in Bombay to Linette Rebecca Beddome Davis and had two daughters, Helen Margaret Griffiths, and Gladys Linette Myfanwy Griffiths.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Maldwyn a'i Chyffiniau, Gwasg Christopher Davies, p.145
- ^ "A Study of a Head of a Koonbie | Griffiths, John | V&A Explore the Collections".
- ^ Dictionary of Welsh Biography, The National Library of Wales
- ^ Llewellyn, Briony (1980) London. John Griffiths (1837-1918). The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 122, No. 926 (May, 1980), pp. 368-371
- ^ Oliver Family Tree, Ancestry
External links
- 41 artworks by or after John Griffiths at the Art UK site
- Archives
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