Joseph William Allen
Joseph William Allen
Life and work
Allen was born in
Clarkson Stanfield, and painted most of the scenery during Lucia Vestris's first tenure of the Olympic Theatre in Drury Lane.[1]
His natural talent, however, was for painting pastoral landscapes, and his work soon attracted admirers and purchasers. The Vale of Clwyd, exhibited in 1847, created a considerable sensation, and was purchased by an Art Union prizeholder for three hundred
watercolour but later he switched to oils. Eleven of his pictures were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.[1][3]
Allen was active in the establishment of the
Suffolk Street. There is little doubt that his presence heightened the reputation of the society for landscape painting. He was also professor of drawing at the City of London School, from its opening in 1834.[1]
Allen died in 1852.[1] His pupils included Edward John Cobbett.[4]
Three of his paintings were bought for the
watercolours are in the Faringdon Collection (London), part of the Buscot Park collection. Others of his works are held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate, Eton, and the British Museum.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e Bryan, Michael (1903). Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan. p. 25.
- ^ Radford, Ernest (1885). "Allen, Joseph William". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 320.
- ^ .
- ISBN 1-85149-025-6.
External links
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- J W Allan on Artnet
- A landscape (oil on canvas - tate Gallery, London)
- View of Dunkeld, on the River Tay, Perthshire (Oil on Canvas, 1840 - Christie's)
- Italian landscape (Oil on canvas, 1839 - V&A)
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