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Henry John Johnson, usually known as Harry (10 April 1826 — 31 December 1884) was an English landscape and water colour painter.
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Henry John Johnson, usually known as Harry (10 April 1826 — 31 December 1884) was an English landscape and water colour painter.
Life
Johnson was born inBirmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...
, where he studied under Samuel Lines
Samuel Lines (1778 – 22 November 1863) was an English designer, painter and art teacher, and an early member of the Birmingham School of landscape painters.
A significant figure in the development of art in Birmingham during its rapid grow ...
. He was then in London as a studio pupil of William James Müller
William James Müller (28 June 18128 September 1845), also spelt Muller, was a British landscape and figure painter, the best-known artist of the Bristol School.
Life
Müller was born at Bristol, the son of J. S. Müller, a Prussian from Danz ...
. With Müller he made an extended visit in 1843 to Lycia
Lycia (Lycian language, Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 ''Trm̃mis''; el, Λυκία, ; tr, Likya) was a state or nationality that flourished in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to 546 BC. It bordered the Mediterranean ...
, where Charles Fellows
Sir Charles Fellows (31 August 1799 – 8 November 1860) was a British archaeologist and explorer, known for his numerous expeditions in what is present-day Turkey.
Biography
Charles Fellows was born at High Pavement, Nottingham on 31 August ...
was carrying out an excavation. The watercolours of Turkey that Müller painted during this period were an important influence on him.
Johnson travelled in southern Europe, northern Africa and Asia Minor. He painted oil - and watercolour pictures (ruins of Sardis, the Acropolis in Athens, Temple of Athena in Aegina). In 1844 he was making one of a number of visits to Betws-y-coed
Betws-y-coed (; '' en, prayer house in the wood'') is a village and community in the Conwy valley in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located in the historic county of Caernarfonshire, right on the boundary with Denbighshire, in the Gwydir Forest. ...
in Wales - this time with David Cox of the Birmingham School who was known for painting landscapes.Francis Greenacre, ‘Johnson, Henry John arry Arry is the name of the following communes in France:
* Arry, Moselle, in the Moselle department
* Arry, Somme, in the Somme department
'Arry is also a nickname, an example of H dropping
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(1826–1884)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 5 Oct 2013
/ref> He exhibited at the
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
from 1845, and at other times in the next 35 years. Johnson has watercolours in the Victoria & Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...
as well as paintings in collections in Bath, Sheffield and Birmingham.
At the end of his life he was living at Loudon Street in London when he left a widow and a daughter.
Notes
1826 births 1884 deaths Artists from Birmingham, West Midlands English watercolourists 19th-century British painters {{England-painter-stub