John Wharlton Bunney
John Wharlton Bunney (20 June 1828 – 23 September 1882) was an English topographical and landscape artist of the nineteenth century.[1]
His father was a merchant captain whom Bunney, as a boy, accompanied on several voyages around the world. Bunney demonstrated a strong talent for drawing and draftsmanship from an early age. The young Bunney became a follower of John Ruskin; he studied under Ruskin at the Working Men's College soon after its founding in 1854, and later worked as a clerk for Smith, Elder & Co., Ruskin's publisher. Bunney was able to give up his clerical job and make his living by his art and art teaching by 1859; Ruskin commissioned him to execute a series of drawings in Italy and Switzerland.[2]
Bunney married Elizabeth Fallon in 1863. The couple settled in
From 1870 on, Bunney lived and painted in
After Bunney's death in 1882, Ruskin started a memorial fund to benefit his widow and children.
See also
References
- ^ A. Wedderburn, Memoir of the Late John Wharlton Bunney, London, V. Brooks, Day, 1882.
- ^ Van Akin Burd, Christmas Story: John Ruskin's Venetian Letters of 1876–1877, Dover, DE, University of Delaware Press, 1990; p. 146.
- ^ John Hayman, John Ruskin in Switzerland, Waterloo, ON, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990; p. 10.
- ^ Christopher Wood, Victorian Painting, Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1999; p. 138.
External links
- J W Bunney on Artnet
- Bunney's St. Mark.
- Venice from the Bacino (Oil on canvas - Christie's)
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